Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith — one of Hollywood’s most influential power couples — have been quietly separated since 2016, Jada Pinkett Smith disclosed Wednesday on “Today.”
According to Smith, the couple, who has been married since 1997, realized that their relationship wasn’t going to work seven years ago and began to “live separately.”
“By the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying. I think we were both kind of still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be,” Smith said.
Will Smith alluded to something similar during a recent episode of Kevin Hart’s Peacock talkshow, “Hart to Heart.”