Jada Pinkett Smith addresses Will Smith gay rumours

Jada Pinkett Smith’s tell-all tour continues – this time, she’s spoken out about the persistent rumours about her husband’s sexuality.

Jada Pinkett Smith is speaking her truth.

During an appearance on a prime-time special for Today, the actress addressed rumours of her husband Will Smith’s sexuality and how she previously battled suicidal thoughts.

The actress candidly spoke out about her 26-year marriage with The Fresh Prince of Bel Air actor and debunked rumours that swirled around their relationship.

Pinkett Smith, 52, clarified whether the couple were ever swingers or had an open marriage or whether her husband was secretly gay.

“I mean, a million things were out there,” Pinkett Smith told host Hoda Kotb.

“No. 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.”

Jada on the rumours that plagued her marriage: ‘None of it’s true.’ Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty

Earlier this week, the Worthy author dropped another bombshell regarding her relationship with her husband, Smith.

She said the couple have not been together for over seven years — but they appear as husband and wife for public appearances.

“We live separately,” Pinkett Smith admitted.

“I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce. We will work through whatever. And I just haven’t been able to break that promise,” she said.

Splitting in 2016, Pinkett Smith said she and Smith “were just exhausted with trying” to stay together.

“I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be.”

At the 2022 Critics Choice Awards – at this point, they’d been living ‘separate lives’ for years. Picture: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty

The actress suggested that “not being ready” to discuss the split publicly, as well as “still trying to figure out between the two of us, how to be in partnership” were reasons to harbour the secret.

They even kept it quiet through a period of intense scrutiny, when the actress was accused of cheating on Smith with family friend August Alsina. In 2021, Pinkett Smith reluctantly confirmed her relationship with Alsina in a conversation with Smith on her now-defunct show Red Table Talk.

“I got into a different kind of ‘entanglement’ with August,” the actress revealed, while also admitting she and Smith were separated at the time. She further clarified, “It was a relationship, absolutely.”

This also means the couple were separated during Smith’s infamous incident at the Academy Awards in 2022. Smith famously stormed the Oscar stage, slapping Chris Rock across the face after the comedian made a joke referencing Pinkett Smith’s bald head. She suffers from alopecia.

Upon sitting down, Smith yelled at Rock, “Keep my wife’s name out your f**king mouth.”

“These kinds of moments can do two things. They can amplify love, or they can really make you bitter, angry, resentful,” Pinkett Smith continued to tell Kotb of the Oscars slap. “We’ve chosen to really look at this moment and heal.”

The couple share a kiss in 2015. They privately split up the following year. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty

The Red Table Talk host additionally shared that she has gone through a lot of healing during tumultuous times in her life.

Pinkett Smith confessed that she was struggling with deep, dark thoughts in her 40s and created a suicide plan.

“I’d been struggling with depression for a long time. It got really unbearable,” she explained to Kotb.

“You start to think that everybody’s better without you.”

“As morbid as it might sound, when I would come up with a plan, it made me feel like, ‘OK, you got a plan, so you’re good.’”

To cope with her depression, she sought an unconventional treatment in the form of Ayahuasca, a plant-based psychedelic that is mostly illegal in the U.S. Pinkett Smith shared that the remedy helped her finally feel free as though the “veil had been lifted.”

This story originally appeared on Fox News and is republished here with permission.

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