Will Smith says his wife’s confessions in her memoir “woke him up.”
Will Smith responded in an email to his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s revelations, which will be published as a memoir on October 17th under the title “Worthy.” In the 400-page book, among other things, she questions her marriage to Will Smith and talks about her everyday life, her friendship with Tupac Shakur and selling drugs at a young age.
Has Will Smith become “operationally blind” to his wife?
In an email to the New York Times, Will Smith would like to make it clear that Pinkett Smith’s revelations about her marriage in her memoirs “woke him up.” He realized that his wife had “lived a life on the margins” and that she was “more resilient, wiser and more compassionate” than he ever understood.
“When you’ve spent more than half your life with someone, a kind of emotional blindness sets in,” Smith says. “And one can easily lose sensitivity to their hidden intricacies and subtle beauties,” he adds.
A separate marriage
The Smiths are not together in the traditional sense, although they are not divorced either. They are neither in an open marriage nor are they polyamorous. They describe themselves as life partners in family and work who have long maintained an agreement that they call “a relationship of transparency.” In recent years they have lived separately. According to NYT, Jada Pinkett Smith bought her own apartment as a gift for her 50th birthday and moved out of the house they shared.
Nevertheless, the two Smiths can be seen celebrating together as the newly minted author unpacks her book – as seen here in this video on Instagram:
Jada Pinkett Smith ‘surprised he called me ‘his wife’ after slap
In a chapter of her book, Pinkett Smith also recounts, according to the NYT, the infamous Oscar night when Will Smith marched on stage and slapped Chris Rock after Rock made a joke about Pinkett Smith’s cropped hair. It was only afterwards that Rock is said to have learned that she was suffering from alopecia, a hair loss disease.
After returning to his seat, Smith yelled up to Rock, “Don’t put my wife’s name in yours [Schimpfwort] Jada Pinkett Smith was then surprised – according to her, especially because Smith had referred to her as his wife – “even though we hadn’t referred to each other as husband and wife for a long time.”