Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett issue message to fans after his ‘inappropriate’ act with female singer
Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith put on a unified front with their first joint message since he came under fire for an ‘inappropriate’ display with a female singer at the Premio Lo Nuestro award show in Miami.
At the show last month, Will and the Spanish singer India Martínez put on a steamy display that seemingly culminated with a kiss, but some fans were irked due to his unusual marital relationship with Jada.
On Monday, she joined the 56-year-old A-list actor for a blended family photo as he marked National Napping Day.
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She didn’t seem to hold any bad blood for her husband as they posed with their son Jaden, 26, and daughter Willow, 24.
Joining in the group photo to complete the family was Will’s oldest son, 32-year-old Trey Smith, from Will’s first marriage to Sheree Zampino, who also posed for the picture.
Although Will and Jada didn’t directly address his controversial kiss, the Matrix series star also got to poke fun at her husband in the cheeky snap.
Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith put on a unified front with their first joint message since he came under fire for an ‘inappropriate’ display with a female singer at the Premio Lo Nuestro award show in Miami
The two posed with their children, his first wife Sheree Zampino and their son Trey Smith for a silly picture for ‘national napping day,’ weeks after Will was slammed on line for flirting with and seemingly kissing the Spanish singer India Martínez (pictured)
Will, who wore a navy Adidas track suit with red stripes, was pictured snoozing on outdoors on a veranda while Jada, Sheree and the children all made joking gestures at him.
Jada, 53, who sported bleached blond hair and eyebrows, pointed down at her husband and stuck her tongue out as if to playfully mock him.
‘Someone say it was national napping day?’ Will captioned the photo.
The novelty holiday occurs the day after daylight saving time resumes, and references the tiredness many Americans will experience after losing out on an hour of sleep.
The photo features Willow flashing a ‘rock on’ or devil horns symbol, while Jayden sported peace signs over his eyes and Trey just gestured join at his father as if the sight of him was ridiculous.
Sheree seemed to be on the same page as Jada, as she pursed her lips and looked into the camera knowingly.
Will has made an effort to keep his oldest son Trey in family gatherings, and Trey has regularly joined his father and half-siblings at public events and awards shows.
In a 2022 episode of Jada’s Red Table Talk podcast, she had Sheree on as her guest as they spoke about how they forged a relationship in the early days of Jada’s relationship with Will, who was married to Sheree from 1992 to 1995, before tying the knot with Jada in 1997.
Will was joined by his entire blended family. His oldest son Trey regularly joins his half-siblings at public events with the family; seen after his infamous 2022 Oscars slap
In a 2022 episode of Jada’s Red Table Talk podcast, she and Sheree spoke about how they forged a relationship in the early days of Jada’s relationship with Will
Jada admitted that her nuptials came ‘too soon’ after Will’s divorce from his first wife.
‘Trying to have a blended family and not really having a blueprint of that. We really had to figure it out along the way,’ she said. ‘For me, it was really about maturity. Just not understanding the marital dynamic, like, “OK, the divorce papers are sent, and people are over it, and this is done.”‘
But then she clarified that it is ‘never done,’ as the families would always be inextricably entwined.
‘So that was my biggest misconception, in that this woman is a part of this family. It’s like not only taking on Trey, but Sheree was coming along too as part of the package,’ she said.
The two women both spoke about how they had early disagreements over parenting their children, though they eventually reached an understanding and came to regard each other as good friends.
The latest display of family unity was particularly striking, as Will and Jada have still left an air of mystery about their relationship.
In 2020, Jada admitted to carrying on a multi-year affair with the musician Alsina during a period when she and Will were separated.
He later admitted to his own extramarital affairs, and in late 2023, Jada clarified that the two had been separated going all the way back to 2016, though she said they don’t have any plans to divorce.
The shocking admission and the unsettled state of Will and Jada’s marriage partly explained the fan outrage that erupted after he was filmed putting on a flirty display at the Premio Lo Nuestro award show in Miami on February 20 (pictured)
The pair got steamy during their song as they embraced and even appeared to share a kiss, while Smith placed a hand on Martínez’s backside
The shocking admission and the unsettled state of Will and Jada’s marriage partly explained the fan outrage that erupted after he was filmed putting on a flirty display with the Spanish singer India Martínez, 39, as they performed the song First Love at the Premio Lo Nuestro award show in Miami on February 20.
The pair got steamy during their song as they embraced and even appeared to share a kiss, while Smith placed a hand on Martínez’s backside.
In further candid snaps taken backstage, Martínez was seen jumping into Smith’s arms and wrapping her legs around his waist.
The display left fans stunned and calling out the rapper for ‘inappropriate’ and the ‘worst’ behavior.
One fan wrote: ‘This is the worst’ while a second typed: ‘Inappropriate, even if it is “entertainment.”‘
Others wrote: ‘It’s like someone’s dad’s on the karaoke with a drunk local woman.’
‘It’s how Will forgot where he was and went to put his arms around her.’
‘Will plays too much.’
The display left fans stunned and calling out the rapper for ‘inappropriate’ and the ‘worst’ behavior
It was recently reported that the I Am Legend actor and the Matrix star are ‘are living their own lives but haven’t completely severed ties’ – pictured 2022
Others defended the star and said he deserved ‘unlimited hall passes’ after Pinkett admitted to an affair with family friend August Alsina in 2020.
Fans penned: ‘I know yall ain’t tripping when Jada has embarrassed this man publicly numerously times!! Come on.
‘Idc his ‘wife’ embarrassed him how many times.’
‘Let that man live he’s been put through enough, damn. TR.’
‘Good for Will! He deserves to live life to the fullest, Jada did him dirty.
‘This man is a actor and has kissed plenty of women who is not his wife, he is a paid entertainer this is legit his job.’
Will also stripped off his shirt during the performance, showing off his body in a white t-shirt as he walked toward India, after being open about his health and fitness journey in recent years. Back in 2021 the actor revealed that he was in the ‘worst shape of his life’ after lockdown and years of gaining and losing weight for his Hollywood roles.
It was recently reported that the I Am Legend actor and Jada are ‘are living their own lives but haven’t completely severed ties,’ as per People.
Smith was seen strutting his stuff onstage
‘Call it what you want,’ the source added. Meanwhile, another inside said the pair, who got married in 1997, are ‘still together’ but ‘have had separate homes for years.’
The pair have been working on their relationship after Jada disclosed in 2023 that they had been separated for seven years, beginning in 2016.
In 2023 it was reported that Jada has her own house nearby to Will in Calabasas.
Smith is also said to be ‘a bit disillusioned with Hollywood’ at the moment the first source shared, adding that it could ‘all change with some new success.’
‘We’ve been doing some really heavy-duty work together. We just got deep love for each other, and we are going to figure out what that looks like for us,’ she shared at the time.
Jada previously shared that she will live with Will again one day to ‘take care of him’ because he’s ‘getting old’ in a 2023 interview with The Times.
While promoting her memoir Worthy on the Today show in 2023 she gave insight into her marital woes and told host Hoda Kotb that the marriage had left them ‘exhausted.’
‘I think by the time we got to 2016 we were just exhausted with trying,’ Pinkett Smith said on the broadcast.
In further candid snaps taken backstage, Martinez was seen jumping into Smith’s arms and wrapping her legs around his waist
‘I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be,’ she explained of what caused them to drift apart.
In Pinkett Smith’s book, Worthy, she describes the separation as a ‘divorce,’ but clarified they never filed any paperwork.
‘It was not a divorce on paper. But it was a divorce,’ Pinkett Smith said.
The mother-of-two – who admitted in 2020 that she’d had an affair with singer August Alsina – said she considered a legal divorce but could never go through with it, candidly revealing that she made a ‘promise’ to her husband that she would never give him a ‘reason’ to get divorced.
She noted that no permanent decisions have been made about the future of her marriage, explaining that she and Will are ‘still figuring it out’.
That year she also shared that ‘there have been several breakups between Will and I’ during their marriage, as she appeared on an episode of the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast.
Meanwhile the actor wrote in in 2021 memoir Will, that there were times in their marriage when they were both ‘miserable and clearly something had to change.’
Jada later revealed how the pair found their way back to each other after Will infamously slapped comedian Chris Rock during the 2022 Oscars.
The display left fans stunned and calling out the rapper for ‘inappropriate’ and the ‘worst’ behavior
The confrontation took place after Rock made a joke about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, prompting Will to make his way to the stage, slap the presenter and say ‘keep my wife’s name out of your f**king mouth.’.
‘That was a moment that I knew I would never leave Will’s side after all those years thinking I would,’ she told Extra.
‘I didn’t go in there as his wife, but I was leaving as his wife,’ she added.
‘You know, it’s funny how intense situations can amplify love, and it was a pretty difficult time, but it definitely drew us closer. So yeah, it’s crazy how things work.’
While speaking to Daily Mail’s YOU Magazine, Pinkett Smith said ‘many positive things came after’ Smith slapped Rock.
‘After all those years trying to figure out if I would leave Will’s side, it took that slap for me to see I will never leave him. Who knows where our relationship would be if that hadn’t happened?’
After Jada spoke publicly about their marital estrangement, Smith followed up with his own comments on the situation.
In an email published in the New York Times, he said her comments on their relationship were a wake-up call to him, adding that she was more ‘resilient, clever and compassionate’ than he’d realized.
Others defended the star and said he deserved ‘unlimited hall passes’ after Pinkett admitted to an affair with family friend August Alsina in 2020
The King Richard star told the paper, ‘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 two were last seen in November 2024, as they stepped out for dinner with Shetty in Los Angeles.
In May 2024, they made their first red carpet appearance since her news of their prior separation.
She supported Will at the Bad Boys: Ride or Die premiere in Los Angeles.
They were joined by their two kids, son Jaden, 26, and daughter Willow, 24, as well as Will’s older son Trey, 32, whom he shares with ex-wife Sheree Zampino.
Jada’s mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris was also present.
Jada’s marriage to Will previously came under blistering public scrutiny in 2020, when she interviewed him on her chat show Red Table Talk about an ‘entanglement’ she had four years earlier with Alsina, who is 21 years her junior.
Jada had an affair with singer August Alsina in 2016, which she later referred to as an ‘entanglement’ before admitting it was a relationship; the two seen in 2017
Her split from Will happened in the same year that she had the affair with August.
News of Jada’s fling with August first emerged in 2020 – but she and Will initially denied the allegations, claiming they were ‘absolutely not true’.
In a bombshell interview with radio host Angela Yee on June 30 that year, August said that he had been romantically involved with Jada and that he had received Will’s blessing.
‘I actually sat down with Will and had a conversation due to the transformation from their marriage to life partnership. He gave me his blessing,’ he explained.
‘I totally gave myself to that relationship for years of my life, and I truly and really, really, deeply loved and have a ton of love for her. I devoted myself to it.’
‘I gave my full self to it. So much so that I can die right now, and be okay knowing that I fully gave myself to somebody, some people never get that in this lifetime. It almost killed me. Not almost. It did – it pushed me into being another person. It broke me down.’
The following month, Jada sat down with Will to address the rumors regarding the status of their relationship – and decided to film the entire conversation on camera as part of her Facebook Watch series, Red Table Talk.
Jada confirmed that she was in an ‘entanglement’ with August – but insisted that she and Will were separated at the time.
Jada sat down with Will to address her affair on her Red Table Talk show in 2020. When Will pushed her to clarify what she meant by ‘entanglement’ she responded: ‘It was a relationship, absolutely’
‘We were over,’ she said to Will on the episode. ‘From there, as time went on, I got into a different kind of entanglement with August.’
However, the pair denied August’s claim that Will had given him permission to pursue the relationship with Jada.
‘One of the things I want to clear up that was kind of swirling in the press was you giving permission, which the only person who can give permission in that particular circumstance is myself,’ Jada said.
‘But what August was actually trying to communicate – because I could actually see how he would perceive it as permission because we were separated amicably – I think he also wanted to make it clear that he’s not a homewrecker, which he’s not.’
Jada confirmed that she and Will met August through their son Jaden and recalled the singer, who would have been 23 at the time, was ‘really sick’.
‘It all started with him just needing some help, me wanting to help his health, his mental state,’ she explained.
Following Jada’s confession Will admitted: ‘I was done with you.’ Jada added that they decided to separate for a ‘period of time’.
‘And then what did you do, Jada?’ Will asked, as he urged his wife to keep talking.
Some of Will’s comments on the show led viewers to question whether he’d had his own dalliances in the past, as fans brought up romance rumors about him and co-star Margot Robbie, which the Barbie star has previously denied; pictured in 2016
‘As time went on, I got into a different type of entanglement with August,’ Jada explained.
When Will pushed Jada to clarify what she meant by ‘entanglement’ she responded: ‘It was a relationship, absolutely.’
She continued: ‘I was in a lot of pain, and I was very broken. In the process of that relationship I definitely realized that you can’t find happiness outside yourself.’
After Jada admitted to having an affair with the singer–songwriter, some of Will’s comments led viewers to question whether he’d had his own dalliances in the past.
The Gemini Man star said the couple had ‘made mistakes without fear of losing’ their family.
‘We came together young and we were both broken in our own ways. To be able to make mistakes without fear of losing your family is so critical,’ he said.
Some viewers also picked up on Jada’s contention that Will had already gotten his revenge.
”Make mistakes’ = cheat on one another. Let’s get reals,’ wrote one person on social media.
Jada has been married to Will since 1997; the pair seen in 1995
‘Will Smith getting through this discussion without acknowledging the women he’s been with since him & Jada have been on a break,’ tweeted another.
Afterwards fans brought up romance rumors about Will and co-star Margot Robbie that date back to when they made the 2015 film Focus together.
Margot, then 23, denied a liaison with Will, then 45, after Star published playful snaps of them together.
One picture showed Will from behind as he wrapped his arm around Margot’s throat while they made playful faces at the camera.
In another photo, Margot pulled her shirt up to expose her bra, while Will pulled his shirt up and touched his chest against her back.
However after the pictures were released Margot tweeted: ‘Been working non-stop, just catching my breath. There’s absolutely no truth to the ridiculous rumor…’ adding that ‘It’s disappointing that goofing around on set could be taken so out of context’.
The two actors took the photos while filming 2015’s Focus, in which Will played an experienced con man who took a young grifter, played by Margot, under his wing.
Will and Margot worked together again on DC’s Suicide Squad (2016).
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