Jada Pinkett Smith revealed she and Will Smith have been separated for seven years.
“We’re still figuring it out,” the “Girls Trip” star told People in an interview published Wednesday.
“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.”
Pinkett Smith said that despite Smith’s infamous 2022 Oscars slap, which she thought “was a skit” at first, she will always support the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” star.
“I’m going to be by his side,” she said of her longtime husband, “but also allow him to have to figure this out for himself.”
The “Nutty Professor” actress, 52, admitted to the magazine that she only realized the attack on Chris Rock, who had made a joke about her alopecia, was genuine when Smith, 55, walked back to his seat.
“’Are you OK?’” she recalled asking him once they were alone.
In a sneak peek of her sit-down interview with Hoda Kotb, which airs Friday night on NBC, Pinkett Smith added that she and the “I Am Legend” star still “live separately.”
Although the pair had been separated for years, Pinkett Smith, who is releasing a tell-all memoir titled “Worthy” on Oct. 17, and her family never indicated their was any trouble in their marriage.
The couple attended red carpet events as a family unit and even bought a new estate together, but in 2020, singer August Alsina said he and Pinkett Smith had an affair, to which he claimed the Oscar-winning actor had consented.
Although the couple’s rep called the claims “absolutely untrue” at the time, Pinkett Smith later admitted to having an “entanglement” with Alsina. She also said she and Smith had been privately separated at the time of the affair.
about a year later, Smith revealed he and the “Scream 2” actress had an open marriage because they believed their union shouldn’t “feel like a prison.”
“I don’t suggest our road for anybody. I don’t suggest this road for anybody,” he said in his November 2022 GQ cover story.
“But the experiences that the freedoms that we’ve given one another and the unconditional support, to me, is the highest definition of love.”
Smith also acknowledged that his wife’s “entanglement” with Alsina made it seem like she was the only one to have an extramarital affair, but “that was not … in fact the case,” the author of the piece noted.
