Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith’s wife, has revealed that she never wanted to marry him.
In the recovered Red Table Talk footage from 2018, the Matrix actress discusses her hasty wedding to the King Richard star.
Will famously smacked Chris Rock on live TV when he made a joke about Jada’s alopecia-related haircut, and it was disclosed just days later.
He has resigned from the Academy and has been forbidden from attending the Oscars for the next ten years.
As she married her 24-year-old husband, Jada recalls “weeping down the friggin aisle.”
However, she said that she only went forward with the wedding because she was pregnant with Jaden, her and Will’s oldest child.
“I didn’t want to get married…I didn’t want a wedding either,” she stated.
I was under a lot of stress. Being a young actress, pregnant at the same time. I wasn’t sure what to do, but I knew I didn’t want to marry.”
“We only got married because Gammy (Jada’s mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris) was sobbing,” Will, who also participated in the video, said.
Jada and Will married on New Year’s Day 1997 in the Cloisters, a medieval-style mansion near Baltimore where Jada grew up.
“The wedding was horrific,” Adrienne, Jada’s mother, stated. It was a shambles. Jada was sick, and she was a pain to be around. She refused to cooperate in any way.”
“I was in such a bad mood that I had to have a wedding.” “I was p****ed,” Jada admitted. “I sobbed my way down the friggin aisle.” “I cried the entire time.”
“I didn’t want to get married, and now Gammy’s gone running to Will, crying about how I don’t want to have a wedding,” she explained at the time. “Now I’m being forced to have a wedding, when really all I wanted was for it to be just the two of us [her and Will] on a mountain, because this is serious business.”
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