In a never-ending quest to answer the inscrutable question ‘why,’ denizens of the internet believe they’ve found a piece of the puzzle surrounding Will Smith’s behavior at the 94th Academy Awards in a resurfaced video from 2018 where his wife Jada Pinkett Smith explains she “cried the whole way down the aisle” stating, “I really didn’t want to get married.”
The actress was joined by her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, her daughter Willow Smith and special guest Will Smith on an episode of her web series “Red Table Talk” where the group discussed “Becoming Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” After conceiving their first child together, Jaden, the couple decided getting married was the right thing to do.
“I really didn’t want to get married,” Smith expressed matter-of-factly after expressing how upset she was to learn she was pregnant.
Referring to Banfield-Norris as Gammy, Smith added how she influenced the decision for the couple to have a ceremony. “We only got married because Gammy was crying.”
“It was almost as if Gammy was like, ‘You have to get married, so let’s talk about the wedding.'” said Smith. “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… I never wanted to be married.”
Banfield-Norris, who, according to the New York Post, married Robsol Pinkett Jr after conceiving Pinkett Smith, recalled the events differently, saying, “I remember feeling very strongly and wanting you guys to be married. I do remember [wanting you and Will to get married] but I don’t remember your rejection of the idea of marriage. I remember the rejection of the idea of a wedding but not of a marriage.”
The actress made clear she didn’t want a wedding or marriage and how her mother escalated the situation, “And now Gammy done gone to Will, crying about ‘I don’t want a wedding,’ and now I’m being forced to have a wedding. I just wanted it to be the two of us on a mountain because I was like, ‘This is serious business.'”
The group recounted how on the day of the wedding, while Pinkett Smith was three months pregnant, Smith seemed to be the only one happy on the occasion. “The wedding was horrible,” Banfield-Norris stated. “It was a mess. Jada was sick, she was very unpleasant…She didn’t cooperate with anything.”
“And I was so upset that I had to have a wedding. I was so pissed I went crying down the freaking aisle. I cried the whole way down the aisle,” the actress revealed.
Before later discussing how she has never agreed with the structure of marriage and the role of being a wife, her husband expressed how grounded the institution of marriage made him and how he never imagined his life without that element in it.
“There wasn’t a day in my life that I wanted anything other than being married and having a family,” he explained. “From literally five years old, I was picturing what my family would be,” Smith said.
These differences in their relationship have been highlighted in other revealing clips such as a recently reported candid video of Smith feeling ambushed in his own home as Pinkett Smith started filming him for her social media accounts. Neither Smith nor Pinkett Smith has remarked on the videos or whether they relate to the cause of the actor slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars in March.
What is known, is that after resigning from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Board of Directors has determined that Smith will be disciplined with a 10-year ban from the Academy.
Academy Bans Will Smith from Oscars for 10 Years https://t.co/jz7E2pI4CY
— Variety (@Variety) April 8, 2022
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30 thoughts on “Jada Pinkett Smith says she never wanted to marry Will: ‘I cried the whole way down the aisle’”
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….yeah, but buttercup, ya DID IT!!!
A true Black Widow. Now it’s clear why Will is a broken man.
Wow she’s really a selfish narcissist. If life is so bad girl, leave the marriage. Now she claims all this bs. Rode his wave for attention. It’s no wonder the kids are screwed up.
Yeah…right…. Will Smith put a gun to her head and forced her to marry him…ya-think…?!?!?
Then set him free you promiscuous witch.
Jada changes partners more often that most people change socks and has done so ever since she was married to Smith. Does she really think people are so stupid to believe that she was concerned what people might think if she had a child out of marriage, what a crook.
AND……….WHO GIVES A FOCK ??
Hope he has DNA tests on both of those psychotic kids of hers. Just saying
PLEASE _ WHO CARES ?
Poor Chris Rock, he turned out to a punch bag for the Smith’s dysfunctional marriage. No wonder their kids are train wrecks.
Fortunately, in today’s world, Will Smith has the wealth to leave Hollywood for good, and his marriage too.
God is granting him an opportunity to improve his life in every facet. Will he accept or be fearful, depressed, and destroyed? It is a choice…owes penance to Chris Rock as well, yet God is helping Chris prosper for turning the other cheek…
Jada is a beast. Can’t imagine what appealed to Will.
She was preggers!
It’s rather EVIDENT that Will slapped the WRONG PERSON!!
There was no one pointing a gun at her head and forcing her to marry. With as many men as she sleeps with, one would not ever know she was married. Maybe someone should tell her the point of being married is to stay faithful to your spouse. She just wanted ride on the fame of Will Smith. The man is a jerkoff, but is quite talented, famous, and rich. She knew all of the above when she married him. She is nothing but a gold digging tramp. She deserves all the abuse she gets.
I think Will is wondering where his manhood went, and slapped the wrong person.
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And she didn’t want anyone to acknowledge her bald head and yet she went to the front of the Oscars without a wig, which a lot of other attendees were wearing. I’d say she’s a real piece of work, but I think she’s mental.
I think I agree with the mental issues. I’ve seen several of her Red Tables and while it’s not my place to judge anyone I believe I know a good person when I see them. Everything I’ve seen her do and say makes me feel she is NOT a nice person and unfortunately she’s passing that on to her children and harming others. It’s very very sad
With their attitude concerning the open-marriage attitude they both hold, Im wondering if Will has done a D.N.A. test on his child. You know. For verification purposes
I seem to recall way back when when she was single, Jada came back to her hometown of Baltimore and counseled pregnant teens. Then I heard she got pregnant, and I thought, “What a great role model for those girls.” It seems here like she’s borrowing the stories of those she “counseled.”
If she’s so upset about being married, then she should get divorced but make sure she doesn’t take anything out of the marriage she acquired after the marriage to Will. He’s the one who made her career. Her children are grown and are living off their dad’s success so she doesn’t need child support or alimony considering that would only shackle her to this very unhappy time in her life…
Geez, lady, get a life of your own. Stop making everyone around you pay for your narcissism. Never cared for her and this is why. Will would be so much better without her. Even filming him at home is an attempt to make her selfishness matter.
Dump her and fast before she ruins more of your life than she already has.
Meanwhile…Demoncrats are destroying this country.
The only interesting person in that family was Will Smith and he blew it!
They got married in the 20th century not the 14th! Nobody forced Jada to do anything because like her Mother said
She was difficult to deal with! Nothing has changed obviously! She sure knows how to make her kids feel special and Willow seems to be poisoned by her Mother already with the way she acts towards her Father!
What a pathetic story. To claim she cried all the way down the aisle and Will didn’t say “no thanks”, sounds like one more fairy tale to excuse their “open marriage”. So why didn’t she use the pill, a condom,, or anything else to stop from getting pregnant since she was so bent on sleeping around with whomever was making the biggest bucks? Now Will disapears because of his decision to assault and battery someone on live TV. If he thinks he’s getting any movie roles paying the big bucks for`the next 10 years, he’s mistaken.
Will and Jada are adults with children. I feel badly for their children having their sad family’s private struggles being made public. I blame Jada for this. Everything is about HER and her alone. Will married her. He had to know that she did not love him. That reveals his own brokenness. Now they will have broken children. Loose-loose all around.
Yawn
Will Smith just destroyed his career for a woman who only married him to please her family. WOW!
will smith must be totally “whipped” if he still wants to stay married to that. He went from the being the Fresh Prince to the Stale Cuckold.
No, he just misplaced his nuts and forgot where he hid them. Maybe he find them before August.