Jada Pinkett Smith’s relationship toWill Smithis still a work in progress.
“We’re still figuring it out,” Jada tells PEOPLE oftheir 25-year marriagein this week’s issue. “A lot has happened. The thing about relationships is that it’s constantly moving. Relationships are, it’s an organism. It’s its own thing. It’s constantly shifting and constantly moving. There’sa lot that’s transpiredin the last two years, and so we’ve been doing some really heavy-duty work together.”In 2016, Jada revealed on herRed Table Talkseries that she’dhad a relationshipwith R&B singerAugust Alsina, while separated from Will.
As the actress, 52, tells PEOPLE, neither she nor Will, 55, has ever had an affair — nor do they have an open relationship.
“We eliminated the chance of betrayal,” says Jada, whose new memoirWorthyis out Tuesday. “It’s like, ‘Let’s talk about it. Let’s work through it together. Let’s be in partnership. Let’s not keep each other in the dark.' "
“I think where that got confusing is that as time went on, there were different stages in my marriage where Will and I decided we were not together,” Jada continues. “We didn’t tell the public, where I was actually thinking about divorcing, separating. There’ve been several of those where we’ve goneand lived our separate lives. So I think within that is where people might’ve thought that, ‘Oh, they must be having an open relationship.'”
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Will and Jada Pinkett Smith in Los Angeles on Nov. 30, 2022.Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
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“I think wewere both kind of just still stuckin our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be,” she told Kotb.
TheSet It Offactress also said she “made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce,” explaining, “We will work through … whatever.”
Jada Pinkett Smith on the cover of PEOPLE.Obidigbo Nzeribe
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And as she tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, “What we do know is that in this lifetime, we’re what we got.”
“I’ll never forget, I said it onRed Table Talk.People weren’t really privy to what was happening in our relationship at the time, but I said, ‘You might be on one side of this house with somebody and I might be on the other side of this house with somebody, but we going to be in this house together.’ That’s what we are going to do,” Jada says. “And that’s just what it is. It’s like wejust have this incredible bond with one another.”
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“And I tell him all the time. I say, ‘If you think for one minute I’m going to give up the right to pull that plug … when your tail is in that hospital and a hundred years old, I’m pulling that plug,” she continues. “Nobody else is going to get there. I worked hard to be able to pull that plug. Pull it. That’s my call.”
“But we justgot deep love for each otherand we are going to figure out what that looks like for us. And that is the thing that’s most important,” Jada adds. “Trust me, that is not for the faint at heart. I’m going to tell you straight up, it is not for the faint at heart. But I do believe that is why Will and I are still today married.”
For more from Jada Pinkett Smith, pick up the latest issue ofPEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
source: people.com
