- Jada Pinkett Smith spoke about her 26-year marriage to Will Smith in an NBC News special on Friday.
- She was asked to address rumors about the couple being “swingers” and their sexuality.
- “I definitely can understand why there’d be misunderstandings,” she said. “But none of it’s true.”
Jada Pinkett Smith spoke further about her marriage to Will Smith.
After the teaser clip in which Pinkett Smith, 52, revealed that she and Smith, 55, have been separated and living “completely different” lives since 2016 went viral earlier this week, the “Girls Trip” star’s full NBC News prime-time special aired on Friday evening.
During the interview with “Today” show host Hoda Kobt, Pinkett Smith discussed everything from her extra-marital relationship with singer August Alsina to why she and her “soulmate,” the late rapper Tupac Shakur, never got together.
At one point, Kobt asked the former “Red Table Talk” host to address rumors about her 26-year marriage with “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” actor.
“You and Will probably have more rumors about you and talk about you than others,” Kobt said as Pinkett Smith laughed.
“‘They’re in an open marriage, they’re swingers, he’s gay, she’s gay.’ I mean a million things were out there,” Kobt continued.
Kobt then asked: “What, if anything, is true and did hearing all that stuff bother you?”
“No,” Pinkett Smith responded.
“You know, that’s part of it. I would say that none of that’s true. I definitely can understand why there’d be misunderstandings,” she added. “But none of it’s true.”
In a 2020 episode of her Facebook show, “Red Table Talk,” Pinkett Smith stated that she was “infatuated” with a woman on two occasions in her early 20s but did not pursue them romantically.
“I love being amongst women, but I never could connect to women romantically,” she said at the time. “But that’s not to say that it couldn’t be. You just never know.”
Meanwhile, in his 2021 memoir, Smith wrote that before he and Pinkett Smith married in 1997, she shared her doubts about “the viability of monogamy as a framework for successful long-term relationships.”
In the NBC News interview, Pinkett Smith confirmed that she and Smith have no plans to divorce anytime soon.
“We don’t want to,” Pinkett Smith said plainly when asked why she and Smith haven’t filed for divorce if they’ve been living separately for so long.
Pressed by Kobt to explain further, she added: “Because we love our family and we love each other. You know, it’s more of a life partnership.”
“Now 10 years from now, Hoda? Who knows,” Pinkett continued.
Asked if either one of them getting into a different romantic relationship would change this, Pinkett Smith said that the couple isn’t concerned about pursuing romance.
“Right now, what we’re focused on, which has been so beautiful, is deep healing,” she said. “Because of everything’s that transpired. Now what happens after that I don’t know yet.”
Representatives for the Smiths did not respond to Insider’s request for further comment made outside regular working hours.
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