Jada Pinkett-Smith Explains Why She & Will Smith No Longer Say They’re Married

Jada Pinkett-Smith Shares How She And Will Became Life Partners

Ahead of the second season premiere of her web talk show series “Red Table Talk,” Jada Pinkett Smith is explaining how she’s stuck by her husband’s side after almost 20 years of marriage. In a preview of the impending season, Will was in tears as the pair discussed how they overcame their marriage conflicts in the company of their daughter, Willow, and Jada’s mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones.

Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith

In a statement, Jada has offered some insight in how the pair had to redefine what marriage meant to them.

I needed a different form to dissolve all the expectations that I had of a marriage. I needed to do that to see Will outside of husband and see him as a human being. We have all these expectations, ‘Oh, this is what a husband is. This is what a wife is.’ I started dissolving all the ideas and expectations and labels.

Will Smith & wife Jada Pinkett-Smith

As far as what viewers can expect from the discussion about their marriage,

Will comes on the show for two episodes, and we talk about redefining our relationship, going from calling ourselves married to becoming life partners. I felt like there was a way to speak about that that was open and transparent. But there are still aspects that are private!