Will Smith banned profanity and violence in Jada Pinkett Smith marriage
Oscars slapper Will Smith once made a vow with Jada Pinkett Smith to never use profanity or violence in their marriage.
In an October 2018 episode of Pinkett Smith’s Facebook Watch series, “Red Table Talk,” Smith recalled a moment he was forced to pull aside his now-wife in the 1990s after she told him to “shut the f–k up” at a party in front of 20 guests.
“I grabbed a newspaper and I said, pow!” the Oscar winner said while imitating hitting the “Girls Trip” star over the head.
Smith remembered then asking Pinkett Smith, “‘Can I talk to you in the other room, please?'” before sharing a candid story about his own family.
“We went in the other room, and I said, ‘Jada, this is the deal: I grew up in a household where I watched my father punch my mother in the face, and I will not create a house, a space, an interaction with a person where there’s profanity and violence,'” he said.
“‘If you have to talk to me like that, we can’t be together. We’re not going to use any profanity in our interactions. We’re not going to raise our voice. We’re not going to be violent. I can’t do it.’”
According to the “King Richard” star, a flabbergasted Pinkett Smith responded by asking whether he would really dump her “over some words.”
“I was like, ‘Yeah, I just did! We’re not cursing!'” he recounted. “And her eyes welled up with tears, and she was like, ‘OK.'”
Smith claimed the couple did not swear or raise their voices at each other again for another 20 years as a result of the conversation.
That rule clearly did not apply outside of the Smith household, however, as the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” alum slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars in March over a joke at Pinkett Smith’s expense.
Smith has since apologized to Rock, 57, and resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ahead of the organization’s decision Friday to ban him from all events for 10 years.
“The Board of Governors has decided, for a period of 10 years, from April 8, 2022, Mr. Smith shall not be permitted to attend any Academy events or programs in person or virtually, including but not limited to the Academy Awards,” the Academy said in a statement, going on to thank Rock for “maintaining his composure under extraordinary circumstances.”
