{"id":99718,"date":"2024-11-21T11:17:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T04:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/?p=99718"},"modified":"2025-01-31T23:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:57:29","slug":"jada-pinkett-smith-reveals-she-and-will-smith-have-been-separated-since-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/jada-pinkett-smith-reveals-she-and-will-smith-have-been-separated-since-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Jada Pinkett Smith reveals she and Will Smith have been separated since 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Jada Pinkett Smith has opened up about her relationship with Will Smith in an exclusive preview of her NBC News prime-time special with Hoda Kotb. \n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The special, set to air on October 13, delves into their marriage, which has seen them separated and living \u201ccompletely separate lives\u201d since 2016, nearly two decades after they married in 1997. Pinkett Smith, who explores their relationship in her upcoming memoir \u201cWorthy,\u201d explains that they are no longer romantically together but are still legally married<br>\n<span style='\"font-size:'><img fetchpriority='\"high\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-110307 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/inovatestory.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/11%5C/will-smith.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"516\"' height='\"640\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/will-smith.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>When Kotb asks Pinkett Smith why they hadn\u2019t shared their relationship status before, the actress explained it was because they were \u201cjust not being ready yet\u201d and were trying to figure out \u201chow to be in partnership.\u201d The couple had faced challenges by the time they reached 2016, feeling exhausted from trying to live up to each other\u2019s expectations.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Though Pinkett Smith has considered a legal divorce, she hasn\u2019t gone through with it, promising, \u201cthere will never be a reason for us to get a divorce.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Their marriage has been the subject of headlines over the years, including Pinkett Smith\u2019s \u201centanglement\u201d with singer August Alsina, which they addressed in a Red Table Talk interview in 2020. In the episode, they revealed that they had been \u201cgoing through a very difficult time\u201d before her relationship with Alsina.\n<p><img decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-110308 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/inovatestory.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/11%5C/story-will-smith.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"1080\"' height='\"1920\"'>\n</p><p><span style='\"font-size:'>Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have two children together, Jaden and Willow, and Will has a son named Trey from his previous marriage. Pinkett Smith\u2019s memoir covers her life from \u201cthe depths of suicidal depression to the heights of personal rediscovery and the celebration of authentic feminine power,\u201d as well as her high school friendship with rapper Tupac Shakur.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jada Pinkett Smith has opened up about her relationship with Will Smith in an exclusive preview of her NBC News prime-time special with Hoda Kotb. The special, set to air on October 13, delves into their marriage, which has seen them separated and living \u201ccompletely separate lives\u201d since 2016, nearly two decades after they married\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":110308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-99718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/story-will-smith-e1738342644267.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110310,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99718\/revisions\/110310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></span></p></span></p></span></p></span></p></span></span></p></span></p>