Jada Smith admitted that she has been separated from Will Smith for 7 years

Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith have been living separate lives for more than seven years, although they have not formalized the divorce, the actress admitted in a television interview.

The American network NBC News this Wednesday published a preview of journalist Hoda Kotb’s interview with Pinkett Smith, in which she admits that the couple did not publicly announce their divorce earlier because “they weren’t ready yet.”

This is one of the revelations of his next book memories, “Worthy”which will be published on October 17.

Pinkett Smith52, and Smith, 55, have been married since 1997 and although they haven’t taken a step legal divorce As of 2016, they have been living “completely separate lives”.

Despite this, during all these years they continued to maintain public image to be a couple and as such they attended dozens together Public acts.

Among them at the ceremony the Oscars from Hollywood Academy from 2021, in which the actor slapped the comedian Chris Rock after making a joke about the actress’ physical appearance.

The event that caused the Oscar winner (that same night) a ten-year ban from any event organized by the Hollywood Film Academy.

The interview, which we will broadcast in its entirety on the 13th, was conducted by city ​​of baltimorewhere Pinkett Smith resides since it is her hometown.

According to the actress who admits to Kotba during the interview, hers marriage broken over ‘a lot of things’: ‘I think by the time we got to 2016, we were both exhausted from trying,’ says the actress, who has two children Will Smith.

“I think we were both still stuck in ours fancy of what we thought the other person should be,” he adds.

However, until today, both of them did not feel ready for an official divorce, he says, because one day he did promise which he didn’t and still hadn’t been able to break it off.