*Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith love sharing intimate details about the inner workings of their marriage, and the actress is opening up once again in a new interview The Guardian.
Pinkett Smith dishes with the publication about why she and her husband choose to invite the public into their private life.
“I knew that I was not built for conventional marriage,” she tells The Guardian. “Even the word ‘wife’: it’s a golden cage, swallow the key. Even before I was married, I was like, ‘That’ll kill me.’ And it damn near did! So why wouldn’t you share what you’ve been through, when you see that other people are out there, trying to figure this crap out? We decided to make it public because it’s part of the healing. I feel like if we don’t have real understanding about it, I don’t know if interpersonal relationships are possible.”
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Pinkett Smith clarifies that it was the institution of marriage that made her hesitant — not her relationship with Smith.
“Will is my life partner and I could not ask for a better one. I adore him, I never want people to think it was Will I didn’t want to marry,” she continued. “But I can assure you that some of the most powerful women in the world feel caged and tied, because of the sacrifices they have to make to be in that position. So I wanted to talk about how we really feel about marriage.”
Jada recently explained the impact of having her husband address his part in their marital problems during a 2018 episode of her “Red Table Talk” show on Facebook Watch. Almost a year later, she reflected on that episode while appearing on the “Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
“What was really important about Will and I doing that show together — two things: First of all was really to kind of get rid of the idea that people in the public eye have perfect relationships,” she explained. “We were kind of sick of living up to that. We were real sick of it. And then second of all, really having myself and Will come and talk about our relationship — sometimes you see just women do it alone or you just see a guy do it.”
She added, “Us having coming together and taking responsibility for both of our parts and also Will being the successful guy that he is and being willing to share what his pitfalls were in the relationship and in his family, you can’t imagine how many other successful men called and said, ‘Wow, my wife has been saying the same thing for years. Because you said it, it opened my eyes and because you said it, I’m willing to listen.”
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