Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett appeared closer than ever while enjoying a rare date night in Los Angeles on Thursday, marking their first joint sighting since May.
The Oscar winner, 56, and the Scream 2 star, 52, embraced in a restaurant, 13 months after revealing they had secretly decided to split in 2016.
Jada looked casually cool in a gold jacket and jeans as she chatted with her husband, who was wearing a gray jacket, white T-shirt and pants.
The couple was seen enthusiastically greeting life coach and former monk Jay Shetty, 37, during dinner.
The situation of Will and Jada’s marriage is complex. The last time they were publicly photographed together was at the May premiere of the Will movie Bad Boys: Ride Or Die.
Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett seemed closer than ever while enjoying a rare date night in Los Angeles on Thursday, marking their first joint sighting since May.
The situation of Will and Jada’s marriage is complex. The last time they were publicly photographed together was at the May premiere of the Will movie Bad Boys: Ride Or Die.
The I Am Legend star was accompanied by the actress, who she called her ride or die, at the TCL Chinese Theatre.
It was a completely family affair, as the couple was also accompanied by their children Willow, 24, and Jaden, 26, and Will’s eldest son Trey, 31, from his first marriage to Sheree Zampino, 56 years old.
Her mother-in-law Adrienne Banfield-Norris, 70, also showed her support and was seen posing for photos with the family on the red carpet.
While appearing on the Today Show in October 2023, Pinkett Smith told Hoda Kotb that they made the decision to separate seven years earlier after feeling “exhausted from trying” to work on their marriage.
“I think we were both still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be,” he explained of what caused them to break up.
In Pinkett Smith’s book, Worthy, she describes the separation as a “divorce,” but clarified that they never filed any paperwork.
‘It wasn’t a divorce on paper. But it was a divorce,” Pinkett Smith said.
The Oscar winner, 56, and the Scream 2 star, 52, embraced in a restaurant, 13 months after revealing they had secretly decided to split in 2016.
The couple seemed close as they embraced during dinner.
Jada looked casually cool in a gold jacket and jeans while chatting with her husband, who was wearing a gray jacket, white t-shirt and pants.
The couple was seen enthusiastically greeting life coach and former monk Jay Shetty, 37, during dinner.
The trio chatted while at Crossroads Kitchen in Los Angeles.
Both Will and Jada have been guests on Jay’s podcast.
The couple looked in high spirits as they headed out for the evening.
The outing was a very rare date night for the couple.
In the interview, the mother of two, who admitted in 2020 that she had had an affair with singer August Alsina, said she considered a legal divorce but was never able to go through with it, and candidly revealed that she made a “promise.” to her husband who would never give her a “reason” to divorce.
She noted that no permanent decisions have been made about the future of their marriage, explaining that she and Will are “still figuring it out.”
“We’ve been doing very hard work together,” he said. “We just love each other deeply and we’re going to find out what that’s like.”
Jada’s marriage to Will came under intense public scrutiny in 2020, when she interviewed him on her chat show Red Table Talk about an ‘entanglement’ he had four years earlier with Alsina, 21 years her junior.
The I Am Legend star was joined by his children Willow, 24, and Jaden, 26, and his eldest son Trey, 31, from his first marriage to Sheree Zampino, 56, in May. His mother-in-law, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, 70, was also present.
The relationship gained even more notoriety in 2022 when Will slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars for making a cheeky joke about Jada that visibly offended her.
While speaking to the Daily Mail’s YOU magazine, Pinkett Smith said that “a lot of 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 to make me realize that I will never leave him. Who knows where our relationship would be if that hadn’t happened?
