Will Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith recently opened up on a special friendship with Tom Cruise in her new book. The memoir Worthy, which chronicles Pinkett Smith’s journey from Baltimore to Hollywood and beyond, includes a revealing story about the Mission: Impossible star — and his dirt bikes via PEOPLE.
“Early in our friendship, Tom and I found out we shared a love of motorcycles, and I was super excited when we made a plan to ride on his dirt-bike track,” the actress, 52, writes.
“Enjoying the ride, I had no qualms about trying to jump off a small ramp, only to feel the thrill of catching air. The problem was that after going up, the bike and I descended rapidly to the ground, and I couldn’t manage to land the bike.”
“As soon as I hit the ground, I was thrown from the bike and landed on my back, hitting my head hard. Thank God I had on a helmet.”
The Set It Off star says Cruise, 61, rushed to her side to make sure she was okay: “Relieved but concerned, Tom let me know I’d done some good riding but that I should stop for the day.”
“Bringing myself to my elbows, I looked up at him and asked a really important question of him and of myself: ‘How many times have you reminded me to not let fear stand in my way? If I don’t get back on this bike right now and do another lap, I may never get on a bike again.’”
Cruise then “smiled the biggest smile,” she writes, and told her, “‘Okay, one more round.’”
