Jada Pinkett Smith is now clarifying that she never cheated on her husband, Will Smith, despite the pair being separated for the past seven years.
“I just need people to know, OK, I did not cheat on Will Smith. No matter how sad he looked at that table,” Jada, 52, shared on Saturday, while appearing on Talkshoplive in an effort to promote her new novel, “Worthy.”
“And when you read this book, you will kind of get an understanding of why the ‘Red Table’ even happened in the first place.”
“I’m in a place of peace. I’m in a place of happiness. And in all honesty, I love where I am,” continued Pinkett Smith. “As far as Will, my relationship with him, you know, we went through that long period of separation… in order for us to journey separately and do some journeying together.”
She concluded: “And it just seems as though we’ve come to a really, really beautiful place together. So I just, I’m happy. Yeah, that’s where I am. In this chapter of my life, I am finally happy.”
According to her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, 69, the duo attempted to salvage their marriage due to public perception.
“People had this vision in their mind and this idea in their minds, of who you were, as a couple, the family and all of that, and you guys just tried to live up to it,” Banfield-Norris said.
“Well, we thought that’s what we were supposed to do until we got mature and got our asses in some therapy, and realized, you know, that that’s just not a realistic thing to do,” retorted Pinkett Smith. “There’s so much love, you know, between us.”
The allegations of cheating came after an “entanglement” with rapper August Alsina, who developed an intimate bond with the entire Smith clan.
Pink Smith and her husband later appeared on her now-canceled talk show “Red Table Talk” to discuss the situation in July 2020.
“Somebody made a statement for me that wasn’t a statement I made, that went cray-cray,” said Pinkett Smith on the now-canceled show. “I would usually not … you know, that would be something that I wouldn’t comment on at all. It’s a situation I considered private.”
Smith, 55, then interjected, adding: “You just feel like it’s nobody’s business.”
According to the couple, they decided to finally go public with their separation due to the fact that “people’s feelings are involved” and “there’s a healing that needs to happen.”
The Post reached out to Pinkett Smith for comment.
Pinkett Smith and the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” alum have been living separately for seven years.
“I think by the time we got to 2016 we were just exhausted with trying,” the actress said during an exclusive interview with Hoda Kotb, which aired on Oct. 13. “I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be.”
“I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce. We will work through whatever,” she continued. “And I just haven’t been able to break that promise.”
Pinkett Smith told People that she and the Oscar winner have “been doing some really heavy-duty work together.”
“We just got deep love for each other, and we are going to figure out what that looks like for us,” she explained to the outlet, adding that the couple is “still figuring it out.”
The “Men in Black” star broke his silence about the ordeal via an email to the New York Times, saying the revelations “kind of woke [him] up,” and Pinkett Smith was more “resilient, clever and compassionate than [he’d] understood.”
“When you’ve been with someone for more than half of your life, a sort of emotional blindness sets in,” Smith wrote, according to the Times article published Saturday. “And you can all too easily lose your sensitivity to their hidden nuances and subtle beauties.”
Pinkett Smith’s new novel “Worthy” is set to hit bookstores on Tuesday.
