Sex, adultery and therapy: Will Smith and Jada Pinkett, chronicle of a mad passion

Still love, rumors of divorce, infidelity, couple therapy… In 25 years of marriage, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith have gone through many hardships.

A couple apart in Hollywood, who seem to always appear so happy in public, while not having tried to hide their problems.

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Sunday, March 27, on the stage of the 94th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, the actor proved once again that his love for his wife was stronger than anything.

While Chris Rock, one of the hosts of the evening, launched a joke on Jada Pinkett-Smith's alopecia, Will Smith went on stage to slap the comedian.

A gesture that surprised, even shocked the public who wondered if this whole scene had been prepared.

But Smith, in tears, ended up apologizing when he received the Oscar for best actor for his role in

 : “Love makes people do crazy things.

I hope that the Academy will invite me again”.

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An audition almost missed

This unconditional love began in 1994 when Jada Pinkett auditioned to play in the

series .

The actress was then 23 years old and wanted to play Will Smith's girlfriend in the series.

Despite her efforts, she is rejected because of her small size and does not get the role.

But within the cast, the young actor notices her.

At the time, he was 26 and had been married since 1992 to Sheree Zampino, with whom he had his first child, Willard Christopher “Trey” Smith.

The star of

falls in love with the young actress.

He divorced Sheree and married Jada Pinkett in 1997 on New Year's Eve.

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Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith at the

(Hollywood, January 15, 1997.) Getty Images

The spouses then seem to live on a small cloud and are accomplices on the red carpets.

Moments that the actor recounts in detail in his memoir

, released in November 2021. "We drank every day, made love several times a day, every day, for 4 months", writes the actor in a passage read by Oprah Winfrey during an interview.

“I started to wonder if it was a competition.

In any case, for my part, there were only two possibilities: to satisfy this woman sexually or to die trying.

“Spectacular” beginnings, as the actor explains to the famous presenter.

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Between divorce and infidelity

Very quickly, Jada and Will Smith welcomed their first child, Jaden in 1998 and then in 2000, a little girl named Willow.

Children who will quickly become as famous as their parents.

But things are starting to get tough on their relationship.

Divorce rumors swell in the tabloids.

The actor opens up about marriage during an interview with

in 2015: “You can't expect it to be easy.

It's as if our marriage was the most difficult, excruciating and exhausting thing in our lives.

But the father of the family nevertheless decides to do everything to save his couple.

At the time, Jada Pinkett-Smith got closer to a 27-year-old rapper, August Alsina, one of her son's friends.

"It all started because he just needed help, and I wanted to help him preserve his physical and mental health," she explained in July 2020, facing Will Smith, on the show. Red Table Talk,” the talk show she hosts with her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, and daughter, Willow.

When the actress meets the young rapper, the Smith couple breaks down and separates for a while.

Jada Pinkett-Smith then begins a relationship with August Alsina which will last several years, without her husband opposing it.

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But after a while, Jada wants to reconnect with her husband.

She breaks off all contact with August Alsina and decides to embark, with Will Smith, on couple therapy.

"What happens in a marriage once you use a marriage counselor is that the truth comes out," Will Smith told

in 2016. “You sit across from your wife and tell all your truths while she delivers hers.

You look at each other and can't imagine it's possible to love each other again once this truth is told."

Since then, Jada and Will Smith seem to live their love as on the first day.

A passion such that it pushed the actor out of his hinges and, even if it means revealing his dark side, to show violence in front of cameras around the world.

But with the Smiths, nothing stays hidden for very long.