The Smith family’s controversy and why they are in India.
With the Smith family apologizing to the world we took our time to look for other "odd" things the family has been through.
And here they are.
1. Will Smith began dating Jada Pinkett before getting a divorce from his ex-wife Sheree Zampine. Jada later said that she regretted that decision. “I think initially when Will first called you, I thought he was still married or he was just separated, or something, and I said, he’s not available to you,” Banfield-Jones said, after revealing she wasn’t the biggest fan of the actor at first. Well, the entire relationship has a rough start. And it seems like Wills's ex-wife and wife were both best friends as Zampino was the first guest on Pinkett Smith's Facebook Watch talk show the "The Red Table talk"
“That’s our first episode. That’s our Mother’s Day episode,” Pinkett Smith said. “I thought it was important to have that conversation because she was my entry point to motherhood. I was co-mothering with her. At that particular time, before [having a blended family] was popular, before it was even an idea, we were trying to create something that we had never experienced.”
This relationship already seems dysfunctional.
2. Their divorce is very confusing as there have been several times that rumors spread out that they were on the verge of divorce but Will and Jada Smith both revealed in 2020 that they did separate for a while in 2015 but they got back together again. Well, it seems like the family will stick together in an interview. Pinkett clarified the whole rumor by saying, "Here's the thing about Will and me, we are family, that's never going down. It's just not," she said on Sway In The Morning in June 2018. "Take out all that whole marriage, relationship crap at the end of the day, what Will and I are family, I am going to hold him down."
3. Trey Smith is Will Smith’s son from his first wife Sheree Zampino and Will spoke about his relationship with Trey where he felt abandoned after his parents split. Well, this would be a thing of the past as in an Instagram video Will and he is said to have become best friends and they uphold a good father-son relationship. It also seems like Jada and Trey also are on very good terms.
4. Jaden Smith, when he was 15, asked his parents if he wanted to be legally separated from his family after failing badly in the film After Earth where father and son both played the role together. “We never discussed it, but I know he felt betrayed. He felt misled, and he lost his trust in my leadership. ... Jaden had faithfully done everything that I'd instructed him to do, and I had coached him into the worst public mauling he'd ever experienced.” Will Smith recalled the moment when his "heart-shattered."
5. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett have different ways of parenting and this might shock you. They revealed in 2013 that Will and Jada don’t believe in punishing their kids. no discipline parenting. Will Smith said, "We don’t do punishment. The way that we deal with our kids is, they are responsible for their lives. Our concept is, as young as possible, give them as much control over their lives as possible, and the concept of punishment, our experience has been — it has a little too much of a negative quality,”
6. Jada Pinkett admitted that she had an “entanglement” with August Alsina years ago when the married couple was on a break. She revealed that in 2020. Jada and August were spotted at the BET Awards together.
7. Will Smith in a 2021 interview with GQ said that the couple has an open marriage. He said that “marriage for us cannot be a prison.”
8. While Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Oscars the year to defend his wife Jada Pinkett though he "overreacted."
9. Fans have accused Will Smith of Nepotism of pushing his son Jaden’s Hollywood career after producing most of his works.
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