Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith were married for nearly 20 years. Instagram / @willsmith / Nathan Congleton / NBC
On Sunday, Smith posted a video of him falling asleep on a boat as he received multiple notifications on his cellphone, appearing to hint that he was going off-grid. The caption reads: “Notifications off :)”
Ahead of the release of her memoir, “Worthy,” Pinkett Smith has been on a whirlwind press tour, dropping bombshell after bombshell about her relationship with Smith.
Comments on Smith’s post have been limited to a few people, including Pinkett Smith, who responded: “😂🤣”
The actor also offered his thoughts about the memoir to The New York Times, which published a profile interview with Pinkett Smith on Saturday.
Smith told the publication his estranged wife’s disclosures in her book had woken him up.
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“When you’ve been with someone for more than half of your life, a sort of emotional blindness sets in, and you can all too easily lose your sensitivity to their hidden nuances and subtle beauties,” Smith wrote in an email to the Times.
During a sit-down interview with the “Today” show host Hoda Kotb that aired on NBC last Friday, Pinkett Smith said the couple split in 2016 and were living completely separate lives.
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith on “Red Table Talk.” Red Table Talk/Facebook
“I think 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,” the “Red Table Talk” host said.
Pinkett Smith initially said in the interview that they didn’t announce their separation at the time because she wasn’t ready.
In an interview with the Times of London published Saturday, however, Pinkett Smith said she and Smith were actually supposed to disclose the separation on a notorious 2020 episode of the “Red Table Talk” in which they talked about her “entanglement” with the singer August Alsina.
“We were supposed to come to the table and go, ‘We are separated, and we’re figuring it out,'” Pinkett Smith said. “But Will wasn’t ready for that, and so my codependency kicks in, and I think, ‘I want you to come out of this as unscathed as possible.’ So if that means me taking on the narrative of adulterous wife, I’ll do it.'”