Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith privately entered a new chapter of their relationship.
In new interviews released on Oct. 11, the Red Table Talk alum—who tied the knot with the Fresh Prince star in 1997—revealed that they’ve been separated for seven years. That includes the six years leading up to the 2022 Oscars, during which Will slapped comedian Chris Rock for making a joke about Jada’s shaved head.
“We’re still figuring it out,” Jada told People of her and Will’s relationship status in an interview published Oct. 11. “We’ve been doing some really heavy-duty work together. We just got deep love for each other and we are going to figure out what that looks like for us.”
And in an interview with Today released the same day, she further detailed what led to he separation, explaining, “Why it fractured, that’s a lot of things. I think by the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying. I think we were both stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be.”
Since saying “I do” in the late ‘90s, Will and Jada—who share kids Jaden Smith, 25, and Willow Smith, 22—have faced a series of ups and downs, including Jada’s past relationship with August Alsina, which she described in 2020 as an “entanglement.”
