Open Separation At Will And Jada's!

Separate but still married.

Paging Chris Rock... we got more jokes coming along.

It is no secret that Will and Jada have seen a massive nosedive after infamous Oscar Awards slap in 2022. Will Smith was banned by the Academy for 10 years after he stormed the stage and slapped Rock after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's baldness. The entertainer/activist revealed she had alopecia and shaved her head frequently. 

It also came after it was revealed that Jada had a two year long relationship with R&B singer August Alsina. Will never reacted to that because it was revealed he had slept with numerous women while married to Jada. Will was "cool" with it. Alsina came out as bisexual in 2022. He is also involved in a recent incident with Daystar Peterson formerly known as entertainer Tory Lanez. Peterson is under investigation for a violent encounter in Chicago where he sucker punched Alsina. He is serving a 12 year sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion and once out he will be deported to Canada. He will no longer be able to raise his children in the United States. His children will have to see him in the California iron college and Canada once out.

So now the Red Table Talk host revealed she and Will were separated for seven years.

That's why she admitted they were in an open marriage.a

She revealed to Hoda Kotb that she and Will are trying to figure it out. 

In an exclusive clip from her upcoming NBC News prime-time special with Hoda Kotb — which will air on Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC — Pinkett Smith confirms to Hoda that there's more to her marriage than she has previously shared.

According to Pinkett Smith, she and Smith have been separated and have lived "completely separate lives" since 2016, nearly 20 years after they married in 1997.

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Pinkett Smith details more about their relationship — both how it started, and where it stands now — in her upcoming memoir "Worthy," out Oct. 17.

In the preview clip, Hoda asks Pinkett Smith for details about the marriage revelation in her memoir, which she says "surprised her the most" out of the book's "many surprising things."

While the two are still legally married, Pinkett Smith explains to Kotb that she and Smith are no longer romantically together.

"It was not a divorce on paper," Kotb clarifies.

"Right," Pinkett Smith responds.

"...but it was a divorce," Kotb continues.

"Divorce," Pinkett Smith emphasizes.

When Kotb asks directly why the couple hadn't previously shared their relationship status, Pinkett Smith says it came down to "just not being ready yet ... Still trying to figure out between the two of us how to be in partnership ... In regards to, how do we present that to people? We hadn't figured that out."

When Kotb asks what led to the relationship’s “fracture,” Pinkett Smith responds:

“Why it fractured...that — that’s a lot of things ... By the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying. I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be,” she says.

Pinkett Smith adds that while she has considered a legal divorce, she has never been able to go through with it.

They trying to work on their marriage.

“I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce. We will work through ... whatever,” Pinkett Smith says. “I just haven’t been able to break that promise."

Smith and Pinkett Smith's longtime partnership has included headlines about Pinkett Smith’s “entanglement” with singer August Alsina and an ensuing joint Red Table Talk interview in 2020, as well as Smith slapping Oscars host Chris Rock after he joked about Pinkett Smith’s hair at the 2022 Academy Awards. Smith also published a memoir in 2021 which touched on their marriage.

During the Red Table Talk interview in 2020, Smith and Pinkett Smith addressed their marriage, as well as Smith's relationship with Alsina — or the "entanglement," as she called it. At the time, Pinkett Smith and Smith confirmed that prior to her relationship with Alsina, they had been “going through a very difficult time."

“I was done with your ass,” joked Smith in the episode.

“Yeah, you kicked me to the curb,” Pinkett Smith responded. “We broke up.”

What we didn't know until now is that the couple never actually got back together.

Smith and Pinkett Smith share two children, 24-year-old son Jaden Smith and 21-year-old daughter Willow Smith. The “Pursuit of Happyness” actor also has a 29-year-old son named Trey from his first marriage with ex-wife Sheree Zampino. 

In her memoir, Pinkett Smith details the “rollercoaster ride from the depths of suicidal depression to the heights of personal rediscovery and the celebration of authentic feminine power," per publisher Dey Sreet Books, as well as her relationship with rapper Tupac Shakur, whom she met in high school.

She had two children with Will, entertainers Jaden and Willow. Will's other son Trey was from an earlier relationship.

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You can watch the special on Oct. 13. For Jada Pinkett Smith's programs, watch on Meta's Facebook Watch and listen on Spotify.