“Red Table Talk” regularly hosts celebrity guests to lay everything on the table.
Jada kicked off the special episode by telling her husband, “Let’s start with day one.”
Alfonso Ribeiro, who played Will’s cousin on the show, already knew Jada.
“Alright, I’ve had enough of the Red Table,” Will joked in response.
At the taping, however, Will met Sheree Zampino, who was attending the taping with a friend.
Zampino was equally disappointed about the couple’s split.
At the time, Jada Pinkett Smith was experiencing her own relationship troubles with her then-boyfriend, Grant Hill.
At a dinner party, Jada and Will found themselves to be the only guests without their significant other.
Will and Jada spent the rest of the evening talking to one another and discussing their relationship problems.
The two continued to discuss their relationships, and Will helped Jada gain some valuable insights about perspective.
After the night ended, the two parted ways and didn’t catch up for another six months.
Zampino eventually filed for divorce on Valentine’s Day, and Will called Jada immediately after.
“I said, ‘Are you seeing anybody?’
and she said, ‘Uh, no?’
I said, ‘Cool, you’re seeing me now.'”
Gammy is the nickname for Adrienne Banfield-Norris, Jada’s mother.
“I never wanted to be married,” Jada admitted on the talk show.
“Jada was sick, she was very unpleasant,” her mother recalled.
The two had a heartfelt moment where they agreed on how they would carry on disagreements in the future.
The couple took communication classes to strengthen their skills and made various resolutions to keep confrontations respectful.
“That was our No.
1 priority,” she reiterated.
“He wasn’t as exposed to the whole Hollywood aspect of life.
He built a massive andwildly lavishhouse for his family in Malibu, California.
Behind the scenes, however, the couple’s relationship was undergoing serious tension.
The couple’s conflict came to a head during Jada’s 40th birthday celebration.
The excessive fanfare around her birthday led Jada to reconsider her relationship with her husband.
“I forgot who Jada was,” Jada said in an interview withThe Guardian.
Will said that after his first divorce to Sheree Zampino, he would never get divorced again.
“Divorce was never even an option,” Will asserted on “Red Table Talk.”
“What is most important to me is my family,” Jada explained.
“And I knew that divorce wasn’t necessary.”
I was not going to fail in this marriage.”
Jada continued, “Even the word ‘wife’: it’s a golden cage, swallow the key.
Even before I was married, I was like, ‘That’ll kill me.'”
The two decided that happiness needs to come from within before it can come from one another.
“We felt this vampiric relational model was unfair, unrealistic, destructive even abusive.
In 2015, Jada was introduced to singer August Alsina at a concert.
“It was a relationship, absolutely,” she clarified later.
“There’s a lot of love there.
Sometimes truth is complicated and difficult,” August said in an interview withPeople.
Will resisted this declaration, as Willow had just been signed to a label with Jay-Z.
The whole family, in fact, supports Jada’s musical endeavors.
Willow Smith opened up toRolling Stonehow joining her mother on tour helped inspire her own music later on.
AsDeadlinereported, the comedian was presenting the award for best documentary at the time.
He joked that Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, was preparing for a role in “G.I.
Jane 2” due to her shaved head.
But the damage was done, and the Academy swiftlyannouncedthey were launching a full investigation into the incident.
Will ultimatelyresigned, after posting a second apology for his behavior toInstagram.
“I am a work in progress,” Will acknowledged.
Rock only discussed the situation briefly during a standup show, perPeople.
The comedian shared that he was still working through everything and would open up more at a later stage.
According toUs Weekly, she wishes the whole thing never happened.
“They’re in agreement that he overreacted,” an insider confirmed.
