Jada Pinkett Smith has suggested that she will remain married to Will Smith, even though she recently revealed that they’ve been separated for years.
“I feel like maybe your and his shadow separated in a way in … whether they stay together forever or not. It sounds like you’re staying together forever,” host Drew Barrymore commented on her talk show during a segment with Pinkett Smith.
“We’re staying together forever,” Pinkett Smith replied. The two have been married since 1997.
“I tried. We tried,” Pinkett Smith continued. She seemed to suggest that their attempts to live separately have been unsuccessful.
In October, Pinkett Smith revealed that she and her husband had been leading separate lives for years. The actress and Will chose to remain married, even though they have lived separately since 2016.
“It was not a divorce on paper, but it was a divorce,” she told “Today.”
The Smiths kept their unusual dynamic a secret for years. Asked why they chose to adopt this lifestyle, Jada replied, “I think just not being ready yet. Still trying to figure out between the two of us how to be in a partnership, and in regards to how do we present that to people, you know? And we hadn’t figured that out.”
Jada also explained they both felt “exhausted” by their efforts to make their romance work.
“I think by the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying,” she stated. “I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be.”
