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Will Smith reveals in his upcoming autobiography that he fell in love with his "Six Degrees of Separation" co-star Stockard Channing.
Smith, who at the time was married to his first wife, Sheree Zampino, starred in the 1993 film as Paul Poitier, a young man who enters the life of a wealthy couple played by Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing.
Zampino is the mother of Smith's son, Trey.
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His feelings for Channing carried over into real life, writes Smith in "Will."
"Sheree and I were in the first months of our marriage with a newborn baby and for Sheree, I can imagine that this experience was, to say the least, unsettling," Smith writes in the book, according to an excerpt published in People.
"She had married a guy named Will Smith and now she was living with a guy named Paul Poitier. And to top it all, I fell in love with Stockard Channing while filming."
Smith writes that when filming ended in New York, he and Zampino took their son to Los Angeles.
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"When the movie ended, Sheree, Trey and I moved back to Los Angeles," Smith writes.
"Our marriage got off to a rocky start. I found myself desperately wanting to see and talk to Stockard."
Smith also delves into his separation from Zampino, his difficult childhood, and his marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith.
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