Will Smith posted his first public reaction since his wife Jada Pinkett Smith started her press tour to hype her tell-all memoir, “Worthy.”
The book will be released on Tuesday, but several details have already come to light, including Pinkett Smith revealing that she and her movie star husband have lived separately since 2016.
“By the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying. I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be,” Pinkett Smith told Hoda Kotb during an interview.
The Smiths got married in 1997 and have two children together, plus were raising Smith’s son from a previous marriage.
“I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce. We will work through … whatever,” the actress said of why they never officially divorced. “I just haven’t been able to break that promise.”
On Sunday, Smith posted a video of himself on Instagram looking like he’s falling asleep on a boat. The video features the sound of multiple notifications coming in on his phone while the voiceover says, “Fun fact about me: I can take a nap almost anywhere.”
The caption says, “Notifications off :)”
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Comments for the post were limited, but Pinkett Smith added her reaction of two laughing-crying emojis.
Smith also spoke about the memoir in a recently published New York Times profile on his wife.
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“When you’ve been with someone for more than half of your life, a sort of emotional blindness sets in, and you can all too easily lose your sensitivity to their hidden nuances and subtle beauties,” the “Men In Black” actor wrote in an email to the publication.
Pinkett Smith told The Times of London that she and her husband had planned to discuss their separation on the infamous episode of “Red Table Talk” when she revealed her relationship with singer August Alsina. But then it didn’t happen, and everyone made assumptions about their marriage.
“We were supposed to come to the table and go, ‘We are separated, and we’re figuring it out,'” Pinkett Smith told the outlet. “But Will wasn’t ready for that, and so my codependency kicks in, and I think, ‘I want you to come out of this as unscathed as possible.’ So if that means me taking on the narrative of adulterous wife, I’ll do it.'”