Will Smith and Jada Pinkett seem hell-bent on showing that no marital detail is too intimate to share with the world. Only that explains Jada appearing on one media platform or another this week to share that she and Smith have been separated since 2016.
Honoring Tupac
Jada is selling her memoir. Never mind that she has made her life such an open book that she could hardly have anything left to share.
Notably, she has spent years publicly grieving Tupac Shakur, as if she were his widow. Indeed, she seemed to be channeling the likes of MLK’s widow Coretta Scott King, and Malcolm X’s widow Betty Shabazz.
But memorializing her fantasies as truth in a memoir was too much for Tupac’s homeboys. They are coming out of the woodwork to say Tupac never had any romantic interest in Jada.
Dissing Will
Still, as bombshells go, the one about her and Will being separated is worthy of comment. But only because of the infamous way Smith defended his “wife” during last year’s Oscars.
No doubt you recall how he strutted on stage and slapped Chris Rock for making harmless fun of her. Now, along comes Jada, making a mockery of his purported chivalry.
It’s humiliating enough that he overreacted. But she claims they had already been living separate lives since 2016. Even worse, Jada insists that, in slapping Chris, Will was venting deep frustrations that had nothing to do with her.
In other words, Will has spent much of his marriage to Jada either being cuckolded by a dead man, living separately from his wife, or trying in vain to please her. Any self-respecting man would have moved on long ago. But not Will:
During Pinkett Smith’s appearance on the “On Purpose with Jay Shetty,” which debuted Monday, Shetty read a letter he said was from Smith.
‘I applaud and honor you. If I had read this book 30 years ago, I definitely would’ve hugged you more,’ Shetty read. ‘I’ll start now. Welcome to the authors’ club. I love you endlessly. Now go get some Merlot and take a rest.’
(CNN, October 16, 2023)
Perhaps if Aladdin weren’t such an Ishtar flop, this “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” might have rubbed a lamp and summoned a Genie to transform him into a real prince and Jada into his Jasmine. They would be living happily ever after.
Alas, that is not to be. Not least because Jada insists, “We’re in a beautiful place.” But they are still separated.
Meanwhile, it is shocking that Will and Jada can be so oblivious to or unconcerned about the damage they’re doing to their reputations. My Aladdin wish is for them to shut up about their relationship and stop embarrassing themselves.
But who knew “Big Willie” was such a pussywhipped sap? Because everything Jada says about him these days makes clear she’s been playing him as one – from day one.