Will Smith (55) and Jada Pinkett Smith (52) have been separated for around seven years, as Jada surprisingly announced in an interview on October 11, 2023. Now, a few days later, she confirmed her current relationship status again on the talk show “Today,” where she had previously dropped the bombshell. In an interview with presenter Hoda Kotb (59), she explained that she and her husband would continue to “work hard” to save their relationship.
“There is no other great love, and I think that’s the point,” she said. She and her husband are in a place where they are “in a deep, healing space.” Both are currently concentrating on somehow saving the marriage. “There’s no divorce on paper. We worked really hard. That’s the most important thing,” Smith said. Her goal is to get back to a civil partnership.
Back then, she went into the marriage with very specific ideas that prevented her from seeing her husband as he is: “He can’t be this perfect, ideal husband. I have to be able to see him as a person to accept who he is.” He would also accept her as the person she is: “And we want to love each other on this level.”
Will Smith commented on his separation from his wife in a statement in the New York Times: “When you’re with someone for more than half your life, a kind of emotional blindness sets in and it’s all too easy to lose sensitivity for the hidden nuances and subtle beauties.” His wife’s book woke him up. He realized that his wife had “lived a life on the edge of the abyss” more than he realized.
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have been married since 1997. The two spoke openly about marital problems in previous interviews, but they never announced a separation. In a 2021 “GQ” interview, Will Smith even talked about having an open marriage. For most of their relationship, they chose monogamy, Smith said. But that no longer worked. The two are parents to two children together, son Jaden Smith (25) and daughter Willow Smith (22).
