JADA Pinkett Smith has admitted to a romantic relationship with rapper August Alsina while married to Will Smith.

The actress, 48, appeared with her husband, 51, on her Red Table Talk chat show and revealed the couple had decided to split at the time.

August Alsina and Jada Pinkett Smith are seen together on the red carpet in 2017Credit: Getty Images – Getty
She explained the pair had met 27-year-old August – who would have been 23 at the time, through their 22-year-old son Jaden.

Jada said: “Four-and-a-half years ago [I] started a friendship with August and we became really, really good friends and it all started with him just needing some help, me wanting to help his health and mental state.”

Speaking directly to Will in the heart-to-heart chat Jada shared: “The outpouring for him from our family was initially about his health.

“We found all those different resources to help pull him through and, from there, you and I were going through a very difficult time.”

Will added: “I was done with your a**, marriages have that though,” to which Jada said: “We broke up.”

She replied: “As time went on I got into a different kind of entanglement with August.”

When Will asked what she meant by entanglement his wife told him: “It was a relationship, absolutely.”

Jada confirmed she did have a romantic relationship with the singer

Husband Will joined her to reveal that they had split at the time

They said it was not part of an open marriage

They previously denied Will gave his permission for her to have an affair

August made the claims three years after the romance ended
She went on to say that her time with August was a “personal journey,” and that although she “didn’t like how this came to be,” it was “all love”.

Will then asked what she had been looking for from her romance with August, and she replied: “I wanted to feel good. It had been so long since I felt good.”

She added it helped her to realize that “you can’t find happiness outside of yourself”.

Who is August Alsina?

August is 27 years old and from New Orleans.

As a singer-songwriter, he is most known for his hit I Luv This S*** with Trinidad James.

He began singing aged 14 and started uploading covers to YouTube.

His music falls into the hip hop and R&B genres.

August had a troubled childhood as both his dad and stepdad were addicted to crack cocaine, then he later got kicked out of home by his mum.

He’s been open about his own health issues in recent years.

In 2014 he collapsed on stage and a few years later revealed he has an autoimmune disease that attacks his liver, causing him health scares.

After forming a friendship with the family in 2015 August even accompanied the famous clan on a vacation to Hawaii in 2016 and attended the 2017 BET Awards with Jada.

In a recent interview the singer claimed: “I actually sat down with Will [Smith] and had a conversation due to the transformation from their marriage to life partnership … he gave me his blessing.”

He added: “I totally gave myself to that relationship for years of my life, and I truly and really, really deeply love and have a ton of love for her.”

Discussing the “blessing” claim Jada said on Friday’s show: “The only person that can give permission in that particular circumstance is myself.

“I could actually see how he would perceive it as permission because we were separated amicably and I think he also wanted to make it clear that he’s also not a home-wrecker. Which he’s not.”

August went public with their romance in JulyCredit: BackGrid

Jada and Will, with their three children, have been together for 25 yearsCredit: Getty Images – Getty

They ended their chat with a fist bump

She praised Will for his love for her

Jada refused to call the relationship a “transgression,” revealing she “learned so much” about herself during that time but said “it was a little weird” it was coming out now as August had chosen to stop all contact when she reunited with Will.

The pair also revealed that they can “laugh” about the situation because it was “so long ago,” and their “experiences of working through it, fighting through it, talking through it”.

The pair ended their talk with a fist bump and a high five, and Jada praising Will for “finding the deep capacity to love me”.