Jada Pinkett Smith has said she and Will Smith are concentrating on “healing the relationship” after revealing last week they had been separated for seven years.
She also indicated that the couple may live together again in the future.
Speaking to the Today Show on Sky’s US partner network NBC, Pinkett Smith, 52, said: “We are in a place now that we are in a deep healing space.
“And we are really concentrating on healing the relationship between us…
“We are working very hard at bringing our relationship together, back to a life partnership.”
“He can’t be this perfect idealised husband. I have to be able to accept him for the human he is,” she added.
“He has to accept me for the human I am. And we want to love each other there.”
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She also agreed with presenter Hoda Kotb when asked whether the couple could live together in the same house again.
As part of publicity for her book Worthy, Pinkett Smith previously revealed she had considered a legal divorce but said she could not go through with it. She also said the couple are living separately.
“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 told NBC last week.
Meanwhile, Will Smith responded to Pinkett Smith’s claims, telling The New York Times that his wife’s memoir “kind of woke him up”.
“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.”
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Pinkett Smith and Smith, 55, married in 1997 and have two children together – Jaden, 25, and 22-year-old Willow. Will has a third child, 30-year-old Trey, from a previous relationship.
Pinkett Smith admitted in 2020 that she had a years-long affair with singer August Alsina.
