" He call me and basically he was like , ‘ I ’d hump to take you out . ’ And I was like , ‘ What do you mean ? ’ "
Jada Pinkett Smithis spilling it all in her upcoming memoir,Worthy.
Amongthe surprising revelationswas her claim thatChris Rockonce asked her out after rumors that she was getting a divorce fromWill Smith.
JadatoldPeople: “I think every summer all the reports would come out that me and Will were getting a divorce. And this particular summer, Chris, he thought that we were getting a divorce. So he called me and basically he was like, ‘I’d love to take you out.’ And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’"
Jada said: “He was like, ‘Well, aren’t you and Will getting a divorce?’ I was like, ‘No. Chris, those are just rumors.’ He was appalled. And he profusely apologized and that was that.”
Jada also reflected on what happened with the three of them at the 2022 Oscars, when Chris wasslappedby Will after making aG.I. Janejoke about her.
Jada — who has alopecia —saidshe had her own “premonition right before the incident on the Oscar stage. It flashed through my mind as Chris Rock’s face came across the screen as one of the presenters that night. In fact, my stomach clenched.”
She said: “[Chris] had been known to take swipes at me — and from the Oscar stage, no less. That had been in 2016, six years earlier, during what became known as #OscarsSoWhite.”
Jada said she wished she’d talked to Chris in 2016 to tell him that, even though she’d decided to boycott the show, she wished him well. But she said, eventually, they did speak, and she thought things between them were fine.
“He apologized and I apologized to him as well,” Jada recalled. “So I actually thought that we were good, that the hatchet was buried between us. And we hadn’t talked since then, until 2022 came.”
Jada said that when Will hit Chris, she initially didn’t even think it was real. “I thought, ‘This is a skit.' … I was like, ‘There’s no way that Will hit him. It wasn’t until Will started to walk back to his chair that I even realized it wasn’t a skit.”
Jada said when she was alone with Will, she checked to see if he was okay — but she was also “unclear on the reason why Will is so upset,” as they had beensecretly separatedsince 2016. “We had been living separate lives and were there as family, not as husband and wife. But when I hear Will yell ‘wife’ in the chaos of the moment, an internal shift of ‘Oh shit…I am his wife!’ happens instantly.”
Jada said she also spoke to Chris that night, explaining he approached her and “tried to apologize.”
“He said, ‘I didn’t mean you any harm.’ I said, ‘I can’t talk about this now, Chris. This is some old shit.’ I thought this was [about] the Oscar 2016 and … their stuff that they had before I even came into the picture in the late ‘80s. I’ve got to leave that to Will and Chris to talk about, but they got their stuff for sure.”
Regarding how she felt about Chris’s joke, Jada said it was hurtful, and she rolled her eyes, thinking about “people I had met whose condition was far worse than mine.” But she also said she gets it, coming from a comedian.
“I mean, that’s what comedians do,” she explained. “I would just have to say that I am not really here to make any judgment on how people decide to express themselves and express their art. I’ll say that several times, I’ve had my feelings hurt, for sure. I’ve had my feelings hurt a lot by Chris. But at the end of the day, too, being in the spotlight, it comes with the territory.”
You already know people had a lot to say about this online.
From Jada’s claim that Chris once asked her out…
Chile this is so messy 😭
Oh now The smacking berth is beginning to make sensepic.twitter.com/9NxProwKW8
chris sway demand jada pinkett smith out on a date ? that must be the actual reason will smith slap him but she say she thought the fight at the Academy Award ’s was a skit 😭
So Chris Rock , thinking Will and Jada are divorced , asks her out , she says no , she ’s still married . He then proceeds to make caper about her appearance on stage ? How very incel - y
Jada pinkett is a goofy
…to the reveal that she and Will weren’t even romantically together during the Oscars slap.
So Jada and Will been separate since 2016 . Living “ separate ” life … .. and y’ all decided to do all this red table talk and Oscar slaps for what?!?!?!?!pic.twitter.com / UrJim5Xyg3
So if Jada and Will been separate since 2016 …. what was the smacking for ? ? ? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/xnc06S5FKf
Soooooo was the Oscar slap just a elbow room for Will Smith to win Jada back ? ? ? ? Since they ’ve been supposedly separate for age ? ? ? What is going on????pic.twitter.com / xCpi5vuSCz
The thing I like most about the slap being while they were ramify is that Jada weigh to Will period . Whatever they have going on internally is their battle but she ’s still worthful to him . I ’m careful not to begrudge folk music ’ matrimony but I admire his devotion to her here
Some people asked to be removed from the group chat.
Willard and Jada take us from the group chat , abeg .
Will Smith do n’t be bothering nobody than here come Jada severalise the world every few month thing about they relationship that we do n’t require to hear
While others appreciated Jada’s candor and truth.
I candidly do nt get what is so upsetting or surprising about this Will and Jada business . They voice like the average ignominious couple of a certain years that refuses to split up but keeps getting into it over the years , they just have money and new years words
Maybe it ’s just me .. but you all are unnecessarily vile to Jada Pinkett Smith . That woman has done nothing to merit the vituperation she receives . particularly because at the oddment of the day it does n’t affect none of y’ all .
you could also read more from Jada ’s consultation with Peoplehereand grabWorthywhen it hits ledge on Oct. 17 .
