Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed that she and husband Will Smith have been living 'completely separate lives' since 2016.
In a clip from her forthcoming NBC News primetime special with Hoda Kotb, Pinkett Smith said the couple had not previously gone public with their separation because they were not 'ready yet.'They were 'still trying to figure out between the two of us, how to be in partnership,' she said.'How do we present that to people?' she told Kotb. 'We hadn't figured that out.'Pinkett Smith, 52, and Smith, 55, have been married since 1997.
She suffers from alopecia, which has caused her hair loss.In a new interview with People, Pinkett Smith opened up about the incident, which she said, like many other people, she initially thought was a comedic bit between the two men.'I thought, 'This is a skit.' I was like, 'There's no way that Will hit him,'' she recalled. 'It wasn't until Will started to walk back to his chair that I even realized it wasn't a skit.
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