Will Smith’s wife Jada Smith had vowed to “throw her career away” to save her relationship with her husband via Mirror.
“That Jada and That Will Love” was certainly the epitome of love throughout the 90s and early 2000s. From the Oscar controversy to Jada Smith’s infamous “entanglement,” the couple’s journey has demonstrated that appearances can be deceiving.
They have been married for over 25 years, it’s only now that the public has become aware of the immense struggles the couple had to overcome in order to maintain their strength amidst a tumultuous storm.
In a 2001 interview with Jeffrey Zaslow, the actress claimed she was ready to throw her career away in order to save her marriage with Will Smith. While much has transpired since then, let’s take a brief retrospective on how she has followed through with her claims.
The couple Will and Jada Smith met after a lot of near misses. Jada Smith was so dedicated to her marriage, that during a 2001 interview, she said,
”I will throw my career away before I let it break up our marriage. I made it clear to Will. I’d throw it away completely.”
Following that period, their relationship remained relatively low-key, with occasional interviews that garnered some attention. However, their relationship once again became a topic of discussion when a Red Table Talk episode addressed Jada Smith’s involvement with August Alsina.
In that October 2018 appearance on the aforementioned show, Will Smith engaged in an open and honest discussion. In this candid conversation, he discussed the process of realizing and letting go of the pressure of maintaining a perfect image, a light under which he had previously been accustomed to shining.
This was closely followed by the incident at the 2022 Oscars, which many believed was influenced by the infamous Red Table Talk episode. But even after all this, they never considered divorce and continued to work on themselves together. Jada Smith said,
“I put in too much. Period,–Why do that? Why create all that disruption? I told Will from the gate, I said let me tell you something, ‘If you marry me, know this: we’re gonna be together. We’re going to be under the same roof’… for me personally, I knew that there was no reason that he and I would ever [divorce].”
(H/t Fandom Wire)
