“The breaking point” behind their split, as revealed in 2018 on Jada’s Facebook Watch show “Red Table Talk,” was a lavish birthday party Will threw for Jada in 2011.
Will recounted how, instead of being impressed, Jada called the party “the most ridiculous display of [su] ego,” which led the “Fresh Prince” star to “crack down.”
As many already know, the period that followed was also when Jada had her affair with singer August Alsina.
However, in a 2021 Oprah Winfrey interview (via Complex), Will explained that his time off was so we could “introduce ourselves back into the already happy relationship.”
For Will, divorcing the first wife, Sheree Zampinohad clearly soured the experience, with the “King Richard” star calling it “the worst thing of my adult life” on a June 2020 episode of “Red Table Talk.”
Jada has also never considered divorce as a serious option. In an October 2020 episode of “Red Table Talk” (via Essence), Jada revealed that for her and Will, “the couple is much more than a romance.
Despite the Smiths’ practical perspective on their marital ties, Divorce rumors are getting stronger for the couple.
Will and Jada reportedly barely speak to each other after Oscars fiasco
Could this really be the end of the road for the Smiths?
According to a source, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s marital tension has only gotten worse since Will slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars in March.
A source said “Ever since the Oscars scandal, the tensions between them have been palpable. There have been problems for years, but they hardly speak at the moment.
The source noted Will’s “$350 million fortune of which Jada would be entitled to half under California law.”
The money at stake alone, according to insiders, could be reason enough for their divorce to become “one of the ugliest” in Hollywood memory. (The value of Jada’s estate, according to Celebrity Net Worth, is roughly $50 million.)
In a way, Jada eerily warned about such a messy potential divorce years ago.
On an October 2020 episode of “Red Table Talk” (via Essence), confessed that she wasn’t “mature enough” for an amicable divorce.
Essence even presciently editorialized at the time that “things can and will get ugly real fast!” Or, as Jada said then, “That’s when the red table turns upside down and it won’t be red anymore!”
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