The pair had to cope with the fallout in 2022 when Smith slapped Chris Rock in the face at the Academy Awards stage due to the comedian’s comment about Jada being like “G.I. Jane.”
The following year, Jada revealed to “Today” co-anchor Hoda Kotb that she and Will have been living apart since 2016 while promoting her own “Worthy” novel.
When questioned about the well-known couple’s decision to conceal their public marriage, the Daytime Emmy Award winner said, “I think just not ready yet.” “[We’re] still trying to figure out,
Between the two of us, how to be in partnership and in regard to how do we present that to people,” she said. And we hadn’t discovered that. By 2016, Jada also admitted to Kotb that.
She and Will were “tired with trying” to mend their broken marriage. Despite considering a formal divorce, they decided to stay married since they agreed to “work through whatever.”
