Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, allegedly admitted that she “truly didn’t want to get married.” Jada and Will tied the knot in the Gothic-style Cloisters Castle in a Baltimore suburb. Despite the beautiful setting, Pinkett Smith and her mother both admitted that it was less than ideal.
In fact, the Matrix actress admitted to “crying down the freaking aisle” before marrying the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star on New Year’s Eve in 1997, putting her on the roasting spit of Smith’s infamous Oscars smack-down of Chris Rock and the Academy’s decision to ban him from the ceremony for ten years. “I was under so much pressure, you know, being a young actress, being young, and I was just, like, pregnant and I just didn’t know what to do, I never wanted to be married”, in a recently excavated piece from her Red Table Talk Facebook series, Pinkett Smith said. Adrienne Banfield-Norris, better known as “Gammy,” 68, forced Pinkett Smith and Smith to marry after she fell pregnant with their first son, Jaden, now 23.
“The wedding was horrible, It was a mess. Jada was sick, she was very unpleasant … She didn’t co-operate with anything”, Banfield-Norris admitted. Pinkett Smith agreed with a laugh and said, “And I was so upset that I had to have a wedding. I was so pissed I went crying down the freaking aisle. I cried the whole way down the aisle.” On the day of their wedding, Smith was positively thrilled. During the episode, he said “There wasn’t a day in my life that I wanted anything other than being married and having a family, From literally 5 years old, I was picturing what my family would be.”
The resurrected Red Table Talk tape follows the discovery of new material from the couple’s stormy recent history. In an Instagram Live video from 2019, a visibly irritated Smith scolded his wife for broadcasting him on social media without his permission. Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have yet to make a public statement about the rediscovered footage according to the New York Post.