In an all-new interview, Jada Pinkett-Smith is opening up about how her seven-year-long separation from hubby Will Smith actually “worked” to help their marriage. (Can’t say that for most people, but do tell, Jada.)
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Speaking to CBS Mornings’ Nate Burleson, the Worthy author shared that it the separation was necessary for her as she still needed to do some “deep healing” in order to find resolve around the expectations and ideals she and Will both had about marriage, relationships and each other.
“I would say that that separation did work,” she explained. “Because I really feel like for myself, I needed time for emotional maturity. First of all, I was in a deep healing process and I really needed to dissolve some false ideas of what marriage is. False ideas of what I thought Will needed to be for me, versus what I needed to learn to be for myself, in order to have a loving relationship. So I had to really do some deep healing.”
In other surprising news, she also revealed that it was Will’s decision to come clean at the Red Table about her entanglement with August Alsina back in 2015—not hers.
“That was Will’s choice. I think at that particular point in time we were both going through a process of dissolving this idea of what a relationship should look like and really just be honest about the difficulties that comes with being in a long-term relationship. At that time, I decided to take the hit, an untruth of being ... as being an adulteress wife, which was not true,” she explained.
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