Is it an entanglement if the marriage is open? Will Smith finally admitted to what many have suspected for years. He and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, have a relationship in which non-monogamy is acceptable.
In his interview for the November issue of GQ, Will came clean about the fact that he and Jada have a very non-traditional approach to their marriage and have agreed that it is fine for them to explore relationships with other people.
“Jada never believed in conventional marriage. Jada had family members that had an unconventional relationship. So she grew up in a way that was very different than how I grew up,” Will said.
The obvious question becomes how Jada could have had an entanglement salacious enough for a Red Table Talk episode if Will was okay with their open arrangement.
However, in the interview, Will made it clear that the public narrative of her having an extra-marital affair with August Alsina and dishonoring her vows was not the truth because, in context, she was not the only one who had…companions.
In the interview, he revealed that their marriage had been struggling for a while, and it all came to a head in 2011 after he surprised her with a 40th birthday bash where he produced a movie about her life back to her ancestors and even pinned down a white descendant of the family who had owned hers.
Jada’s values clashed with Will’s, and she felt that the presentation was egotistical. Because she had compromised regularly in their marriage to defer to his desires, perhaps agreeing to an open marriage was the way he acquiesced to her this time.
Will has learned a lesson in their marriage that he said should not be a prison.
“The experiences that the freedoms that we’ve given one another and the unconditional support, to me, is the highest definition of love.”
In the end, that’s what matters the most.
