Jada Pinkett Smith Recalls Apologizing to Will Smith's Ex Sheree Zampino for Coming Into the Picture Too Soon

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Jada Pinkett Smith and Sheree Zampino are reflecting on their tumultuous journey to peacefully co-parenting. On the latest episode of , the duo looks back on the now-unbreakable bond built between them through their relationship with Will Smith. «We have developed a really nice sisterhood,» Jada says of their current relationship. «But it hasn't been easy along the way...sometimes we did have to fake it to make it.»Sheree and the  star were married from 1992 to 1995 and share one child, 29-year-old Trey.

Will and Jada married in 1997, and they share two children — Jaden, 24, and Willow, 21.As Will details in his deeply personal self-titled memoir, he and Jada met in their 20s and became a couple after the  actor split from Sheree.

The two initially met on the set of , when Jada was exiting a producer's office following an unsuccessful audition. But it wasn't until much later that the two got a chance to connect, and when they did, they quickly became inseparable.«My divorce from Sheree wasn’t yet final, so Jada and I decided it would be prudent if we kept our relationship under wraps. (We were both pretty famous, and we felt it just wouldn’t have been a great look.),» he reveals in the book. «The blessed yet unintended consequence was that we spent every single moment together, just us.

The first three or four months were as wild a romantic whirlwind as our bodies could have possibly handled.»In the new episode, Jada notes that when she and Will married and she became the stepmother to Trey, the notion of blending families without a «blueprint» quickly presented its challenges.«For me, it really was just about maturity,» she explains.