Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have been in the headlines since singer August Alsina revealed that he had been in a relationship (or tangle, depending on who you ask) with Jada. Will and Jada sat in an episode of Red Table Talk to talk about what really happened. But an old video that has now resurfaced reveals that the two may have been unhappy long before Alsina came on the scene.
What happened between August Alsina and Jada Pinkett Smith?
The whole drama started after Alsina did an interview with The breakfast club Angela Yee and spoke about her relationship with Jada.
“I totally gave myself up to that relationship for years of my life, and I really, really, really love and feel a lot of love for it,” he said. “I dedicated myself to it, I gave myself completely, to the point that I can die right now and know that I really gave myself to someone.”
He even said that Will agreed to everything.
“In fact, I sat down with Will and had a conversation because of the transformation of his marriage into a life relationship … he gave me his blessing,” she said.
When the Smiths continued Red Table Talk They revealed that at first, the family’s relationship with Alsina had to do with helping him recover. But as time went on, Alsina and Jada “got tangled”. When Jada and Alsina began their relationship, Will and Jada were already separated within their marriage and did not even speak.
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Jada said that she was initially with Alsina because she wanted to feel good again, but she finally realized that she couldn’t hide from her demons.
“I had to learn to break [my codependency] In this cycle, the idea of having to fix and attract people who need help … be it their health or their addictions, there is something in that childhood trauma that seems to be solved by fixing people instead of fixing me. me, “she said to Will on the show.
Jada later revealed that she and Alsina had not spoken in a long time.
Will has finished making Jada happy
There have been rumors about Will and Jada’s marriage for years. But in a recently resurfaced video from 2018, Will admits he stopped trying to make Jada happy a while back.
“I asked him what he thought was one of the biggest revelations he had about love.” she said in the video. “She said, ‘You can’t make a person happy.’ And I thought it was a very deep idea. You can make a person smile. You can make a person feel good. You can make a person laugh. But whether a person is happy or not is totally and totally out of your control. ”
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Finally, Will realized that it was not his responsibility to make Jada happy.
“I remember the day I retired,” he said. “I literally said to Jada, ‘That’s it. I retire. I withdraw from trying to make you happy. I need you to go make you happy and show me it’s even possible. “
“We realized that we were two completely separate people on two completely separate individual trips and that we were choosing to walk together on our separate trips,” he continued. “Her happiness was her responsibility and my happiness was my responsibility.”
