Jada Pinkett Smith says she was very grateful that Will stood up for her.
After telling the world that she and Will Smith have been separated for the last seven years, meaning that they weren’t together during the Oscar’s slap, she credits the incident for allowing them to reconnect.
Speaking at a Vanity Fair event in New York on Monday, the 52-year-old said that she and Will “Did some really deep work together” after he hit Chris Rock on stage at the ceremony when the comedian made a joke about her being bald.
“When I was sitting at the Oscars, it clicked in. As soon as I was like, ‘Oh snap, you hit Chris?'” Jada said.
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“I was like, I’m riding with you. I didn’t come into this place as your wife, but I’m leaving here as your wife because we got a storm we’re going to have to deal with together. I am not gonna leave your side.”
It comes after she claimed in her upcoming book, ‘Worthy’ that she had no idea the slap was real and at first thought it was part of a skit.
“I thought, ‘This is a skit.’ I was like, ‘There’s no way that Will hit him.’ It wasn’t until Will started to walk back to his chair that I even realised it wasn’t a skit,” she wrote.
The mother of two also reflected on the last seven years apart from her husband, admitting that the two decided to call it quits because they were “exhausted” from trying to make their relationship work.
Though the confessions that fill the pages of her tell-all book had people shocked, Jada told the audience that she had permission from Will and their two children to write everything we see on the pages.
“[Will] was like, ‘You haven’t been able to have your authentic voice through and through,'” she explained. “‘I will be comfortable with whatever you want to share, I trust you.'”
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