Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s wild ups and downs: ‘Never’ wanting to get married to swinger rumors

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dating a year later after Will divorced his first wife, Sheree Zampino, with whom he shares a son, Trey, 30.Marital bliss soon continued when Jada gave birth to their first child together, Jaden, 25, in 1998.

Their daughter Willow, 22, arrived two years later.But in the last decade, the Smiths’ partnership has been the hot button topic, with rumors of a divorce, a separation, swinging and even an open marriage making waves.Jada dropped a bombshell on Oct.

11 saying that she and Will have actually been separated since 2016.The “Nutty Professor” actress even confessed that she “really didn’t want to get married” to the “Wild Wild West” singer in 2022, and was “crying down the freaking aisle” before exchanging vows.“I was under so much pressure, you know, being a young actress, being young, and I was just, like, pregnant and I just didn’t know what to do,” she declared on her “Red Table Talk” series at the time. “I never wanted to be married.”Keep reading to learn more about Will and Jada’s tumultuous relationship over the years.Following an interview the “Gotham” actress did with Huffington Post Live, fans began to speculate that she and Will were in an open marriage.“I’ve always told Will, ‘You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay,’” she explained in the April 2013 sit-down. “Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man.

I’m here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be and that’s not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.” She later denied that they were in an open marriage and clarified that they weren’t swingers.