Hollywood star Will Smith joined Jada Pinkett Smith as she promoted her new memoir ‘Worthy’ in Baltimore on October 18. He pledged lifelong support for her just a week after she revealed that they had been separated since 2016.
‘Jada is the best friend I have ever had on this planet, and I am going to show up for her and support her for the rest of my life,’ Will Smith told the crowd at the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
He also credited Jada Pinkett Smith’s sacrifices for his successes.
Smith called his relationship with Jada ‘brutiful,’ explaining that it was both brutal and beautiful.
‘It is a sloppy public experiment in unconditional love,’ he said.
Will Smith made a surprise appearance at Jada’s event with their two children, Jaden and Willow, and his son Trey Smith. Pinkett Smith said the family, including her aunt and uncle and Will Smith’s mother and sister, were in town to celebrate the 70th birthday of her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris.
‘Will and me are good. All the people who don’t understand and got something to say are just going to have to fall in line. The truth of the matter is I’m not leaving Will’s side and he’s not going to leave mine. We’ve been on a powerful quest. And I’m happier than I’ve ever been,’ Pinkett Smith told Laura Coates of CNN, who moderated the discussion.
‘Worthy’ by Jada Pinkett Smith details her marriage, her Hollywood journey, her unconventional parenting style and gives her perspective of Smith infamously slapping Chris Rock during the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony over a joke about her shaved head.
Pinkett Smith told The Associated Press that she is feeling free since opening up about the separation.
‘It’s a weight off my shoulders, honestly. Ever since the Oscars, it’s so interesting how such an intense event can bring you closer together, and I would say that after that, we really dove in and dug in and got to this beautiful place we are now,’ she said in an interview.
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