Jada Pinkett Smith: 'I never wanted to be married'

Jada Pinkett Smith confessed in 2018 that she did not want to get married to Will Smith, according to a clip from her Facebook show, Red Table Talk.

Pinkett Smith also admitted to “crying down the freaking aisle” at her wedding to the veteran actor.

“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,” said Pinkett Smith while seated around a table with Smith, their daughter Jada and her mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris, also known as “Gammy.”

“I never wanted to be married.”

Smith was barred from attending the Oscars for the next ten years after slapping this year’s host Chris Rock after he made a joke about his wife’s bald head.

Pinkett Smith has since come under scrutiny for her extramarital affair with R&B singer Alsina August, a friend of her son, Jaden.

During the video, Pinkett Smith said her mother forced the two to marry after she became pregnant with Jaden.

“We only got married because Gammy was crying,” a chuckling Smith informed his daughter.

“It was almost as if Gammy was like, ‘You have to get married, so let’s talk about the wedding,’” said Pinkett Smith.  

“I do remember [wanting you and Will to get married] but I don’t remember your rejection of the idea of marriage,” Banfield-Norris said. “I remember the rejection of the idea of a wedding but not of a marriage.”

The three also discussed how badly the wedding ceremony went, with Banfield-Norris noting how Jada was sick and uncooperative.

“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,” Pinkett-Smith agreed, laughing.

Despite the experience, the couple ultimately agreed that getting married was “the right call.” Banfield-Norris also apologized for insisting on a lavish ceremony.