Jada Pinkett Smith is revealing the truth about her marriage to blockbuster movie star Will Smith.
In a new interview about her memoir “Worthy” the Girls Trip star revealed that she has been separated from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for seven years.
In 2016 the couple decided that they would live completely separate lives, yet remain married.
Yet when gossipers disclosed that the two were separated or in an open relationship, both Will & Jada denied the rumors. Jada says she wasn’t ready to tell the world yet.
While fans are just learning the news now, Jada confirmed to Today that she and Will have been apart since 2016. As for the reason they kept things quiet?
“I think just not being ready yet, still trying to figure out between the two of us how to be in partnership and in regards to how do we present that to people,” Jada told Hoda Kotb in an interview released Oct. 11. “And we hadn’t figure that out.”
She also shed some light on what led them to part ways.
“Why it fractured, that’s a lot of things,” the actress added. “I think by the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying. I think we were both stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be.”
And while Jada said she considered divorce, she ultimately decided not to file.
“I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce,” she said in the interview, which is part of Jada’s Story – An NBC News Special that will air Oct. 13. “We will work through whatever, and I just haven’t been able to break that promise.”
What’s interesting here is that Jada and Will are experiencing the same problems many couples go through. The reality of who the person is versus who you want them to be. They’ve gone through all types of high profile counseling sessions and still no fix.
The advice I give couples who work with me is to stop focusing on the negative things about your mate. If you love your mate, amplify their good. As the problems you see in them are really just a reflection of your own mindset and beliefs about yourself.
For Jada, she never wanted to marry Will in the first place. For some reason Will refuses to divorce her and move on with his life.
Many couples stay married even though the relationship is fractured. Through Will & Jada it is obvious there is no point, other than for business purposes. But the LOVE won’t ever come back as long as the couple is in denial.
Real freedom comes from knowing what you want, getting it, and then appreciating it. Your partner can neither give you feelings of freedom or happiness, unless you first give those things to yourself. Jada doesn’t have it, because she doesn’t know what she wants.
This is something many of my clients discover in a soul alignment session. CLARITY is the answer.
And if a couple is not going to get divorced, then dating other people definitely isn’t helping. As long as someone in the relationship has outside sex to escape to they can’t fully commit to healing.
Marques Houston, 41, continues to get himself in hot water, with his fans and single mothers too.
The internet in generally is turned off by Houston, after he obtusely gave further details on his decision to marry a woman half his age.
According to Houston, his wife, Miya Houston, who is 19 years younger than him is everything the entertainer ever wanted in a “woman.”
Recently the actor sat down with Page Six and explained that dating women his age may come with too much “baggage.”
Marques Houston Revealed His “Red Flag” Regarding “Single Mothers”
According to Page Six, Houston explained that one of his “red flags” includes “single mothers with children.”
“A red flag to me [was] always with a woman that had a kid. Nothing against single women, but single mothers with children are a red flag for me.”
Houston explained that he tips his hat and respects women “raising children on their own.” However, growing up, he “never really wanted to have kids.”
Additionally, he explained his father advised him that if he was going to have kids, he should do so with a woman who also does not have children.
“I would talk to my dad a lot, and he would always tell me to have your own kids because you never know what the baby daddy‘s are about. So if you’re gonna have kids, make sure it is with a woman that never had kids. So that was always my red flag… and a woman with an attitude. I don’t like women with funky attitudes.”
Marques Houston Explains Why He Avoided Marrying A Woman His Age
Houston, who is 41, went on to acknowledge his marriage to 22-year-old Miya Houston. Additionally, he explained why he did no choose to marry a woman in his age range.
“Women that are my age… they kind of have a different outlook on life. Like a lot of women my age are very independent. They are very like, ‘I don’t need a man to do this for me ’cause I can do it for myself.’ I come from a generation that I love to provide for my wife.”
Furthermore, he explained why his wife was the perfect match for him.
“There’s a lot of women my age I’ve dated, they may have baggage. They may have kids, they may not. There’s so many different women I’ve been with throughout my life, and it just so happens to be that this one [Miya] caught my heart. Everything that I prayed for — and everything that I wanted in a woman — she came with…”
Houston admitted that even though his wife “was young,” he is “young in spirit.”
“Although she was young, I’m young in spirit.”
Marques Houston Explains That Receiving Criticism Is Normal In His World
During the interview, Houston explained that he’s used to “critics” weighing in on his dating preferences. He explained that the public’s opinions are something he’s had to deal with since he was a former singer in the group Immature.
“In the Immature days, we [would] have light-skinned girls in our music videos. Then people would question… ‘Why can’t you get a black girl?’ And then it’s like, ‘Oh yeah, I only like light-skinned girls.’ Then the plus-size girls will come and get me. I was like, ‘Man, I can’t catch a break.’”
Marques Houston married Miya Houston in August 2020. The actor was 38 years old, and Miya Houston was 19. The couple shares one child.
There are a lot of single mother’s will become offended by his opinion. But not offended by becoming a single mother.
While not all men think like Marques, some do. It’s totally okay for a man to desire to have a fresh family with a woman. Nevermind the fact that at some point they will probably break up and she will be a single mother, dating other men.
In addition, it’s quite obvious that Marques wanted a gullible woman he could easily mold and control. There is no other way around it. Men love to come up with all of these excuses as to why they are dating teenagers, but it is what it is.
I love to hear men say beautiful things about their woman.
Iman Shumpert, who won Dancing With the Stars in November 2021, is happily married to singer Teyana Taylor. Whose sultry dance moves you may be familiar with.
When asked to share his wife’s sexiest quality, Iman didn’t hesitate.
“She oozes sex appeal. She can’t turn it off,” he said. “It’s sickening because even when I’m super mad, she want to be mad and walk around and I got to stare.” Now that’s a winner!
Back in 2018, during an interview with “Big Boy’s Neighborhood” radio show with Angie Martinez (of “The Breakfast Club” fame) the sultry KTSE songstress told Martinez that her new song “3Way” is art imitating life.
“Okay, look … listen! … I ain’t finna sing about nothing that I ain’t been through. My album is what it is — I was like do you know how many “thank you’s” I’m gonna get for this?!” Taylor said to Martinez.
“The summer is lit, the summer of lit!” she added. “Once you break it down and the reason I say this—I’m not saying that this is what you have to do, but I’m what I’m saying is when you make a vow and you’re married, it ain’t no limits. Period!”
Taylor and Shumpert have been going strong since they met in 2014 and married in 2016. The We Got Love: Teyana & Iman stars share daughters Iman Jr. (nicknamed Junie), and Rue.
I get the feeling that these two lovebirds will actually be together forever.
Looks like we have another Fantasia Barrino situation again.
Years ago you will remember that Fantasia Barrino was sued by a North Carolina woman for stealing her husband. That was the first time many have heard of such a law.
Well it appears have Nene Leakes is now named in such a lawsuit, after getting with a married man and posting the situation on social media.
Just weeks after her husband Greg’s death, social media users were surprised to see NeNe Leakes had quickly moved on with a new boo.
Now Leakes is being hauled into court by her boyfriend’s wife for allegedly sleeping with her man, causing her marriage to collapse … this according to new legal documents.
Malomine Tehmeh-Sioh claims in the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, NeNe and now-BF Nyonisela Sioh hooked up while he was still married to her.
Malomine says NeNe posted picture after picture of her and her new man … humiliating Malomine and cratering her relationship with her husband.
Malomine claims she suffered emotional distress, mental anguish, and a loss of affection. In case you’re wondering, North Carolina is one of 7 states where a person can sue a spouse’s extramarital partner for alienation of affection. Most states have disallowed such suits, because it’s really just the game of love. Malomine is gunning for more than $100K.
If all she wants is $100K NeNe is probably like ‘Girl you can have that. Having your husband is better.’ I’m over here like “$100K?Girl that’s all your husband is worth? Shouldn’t you sue for millions? Must be the law or something because that’s exactly what happened with Fantasia.
Anyway, before you rush to judgement too fast, Fantasia won the $100K lawsuit. It turns out the husband had separated from the wife a year earlier than she stated in the lawsuit.
Nene is a superstar who is forced to think all of her moves outs. She would’ve had to have believed that he was done with his wife. If the wife is she’s suing that does mean he is done.
What are your thoughts on how long it takes someone to get a divorce before they move on?
More and more we see married people who have moved on before the divorce is official… Take Kanye West & Kim Kardashian for example. They are marred, filed for divorce and publicly dating other people.
Love is so simple when you find it and just go with it.
A newly married couple is celebrating having matching degrees, and matching ring fingers too. They are manifesting their best life at the same time.
This newly married couple are celebrating two special milestones—becoming doctors and the beginning of a long-lasting future together.
On May 21, Dwight Johnson II and Taylor Brooks graduated from Meharry Medical College, an HBCU in Nashville. Six days before that, the pair expressed their love, promise, and commitment to one other at their wedding in Tomball, Texas. Now, they are reintroduced as not only Mr. and Mrs. Johnson but also Drs. Johnson and Johnson.
Dwight received his doctor of medicine degree in obstetrics and gynecology, while Taylor graduated a physician of psychiatry. The man takes care of the vagina and body, while his wife will cover the mind.
On May 22, Dwight posted two adorable side-by-side photos on Twitter of both his graduation and wedding day with his wife.
— Dwight Johnson II, MD (@DrDwight_MD) May 22, 2022
“So much to be thankful for in this past week,” Dwight wrote. “I was able to marry my best friend and then graduate as physicians together just 6 days later. God is so good. This is what #BlackLove mixed with #BlackExcellence looks like when you always keep God at the center of your life.”
According to the couple’s wedding registry, they were introduced to each other by a mutual friend. Dwight was instantly drawn to Taylor’s beauty and kindness. Their romance started with conversations in the school library to an official date of dinner and bowling,
Dwight falling madly in love, mustered up the courage to make her his girlfriend and ask her out to the med school prom. He won her over with the Love and Basketball approach with ping-pong to ask her to Cadaver Ball. Dwight also paid close attention to Taylor and knew what she liked. He didn’t just call her on the phone and randomly ask her to make it official. He had the DJ play “Differences” by Ginuwine to set the mood while he asked her to be his.
Their romance is now moving over to the next stage of their journey. The new graduates scored residencies at top colleges. Taylor is set to start hers at with the University of Maryland and Dwight will starts his at Howard University College of Medicine.
We wish the Johnson’s the best on their careers and beautiful Love story. This won’t be the last you hear of the outstanding outstanding couple. The man in this marriage is definitely equipped with a vision and leading his wife to victory.
More footage of Jada Pinkett speaking candidly on Red Table Talk about her relationship with husband Will Smith has surfaced.
Speaking with Stephen Curry’s wife Ayesha Curry Jada spoke about how concentrating only on the kids and husband Will Smith made her life worse.
Although Jada said she put herself in Will’s shoes, she simply does not seem to like Will. Yet, they are still sticking together in a lifetime partnership.
In one of the episodes of Red Table Talk, Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Gammy traveled to North Carolina to meet the Curry family. And they had some candid moments during the discussion.
During the talk show, Ayesha Curry was talking about how she didn’t just want to be a basketball wife. She said that Sonya perfectly balances her needs, her husband’s, and her children’s. But she said that this made her realize she needed something for herself.
Ayesha said that she wanted to build a career for herself so that she could work on that and said that it would make her happy and fulfilled. So Jada asked what was the most difficult part for Ayesha in her pursuit of a career.
Curry said that trying to figure out how to balance her career and family was the hardest. And said that she wanted to give up her career just to be around her family more. She said that she had to talk her out of quitting her career due to the family because, when she was a housewife, she was miserable.
Hearing this, Jada Pinkett confessed, “Oh, I am with you, I am with you that phase. Like, not working. Like, okay, ‘I am just gonna concentrate on my kids and I am gonna concentrate on my husband’, and I turned into a terror.”
Ayesha Curry said that the children would eventually grow up and leave to live their own lives, which would leave the mothers with an emptiness if they didn’t have a career.
You notice that Jada never has anything positive to say about Will?
DEKALB COUNTY, Georgia — In 2017, Velvet Marquez was in college, just 20 years old, and trying to find her “truth and spirituality.” She came across a Facebook post from a then-member of the so-called “Carbon Nation” cult.
She then started video chatting and texting this member and realized she had fallen for him. That spark prompted her to travel to Costa Rica where the group was living at the time.
“Little did I know, the cult member at the time was teaching me everything that I needed to know before coming to the cult, so that I wouldn’t get in trouble,” Marquez said.
The two dated for nine months. However, Marquez said their relationship came to an end because Eligio Bishop – also known as Nature Boy and Chief – the reported leader of the cult.
“[Bishop] asked me if I was sure that I wanted to be with the cult member and I told him that I was sure,” Marquez said. “So, the entire time that I was with the cult member, he’d plot it to take me away and to love by me and romance me and to make me his wife, so that he can make me queen of Carbon Nation to pretty much abuse and manipulate everybody else in the process.”
Marquez said she needed space after the break-up but Bishop insisted on pursuing a relationship with her.
“As a young girl at 21 years old, I’m like, ‘okay, well, you love me this much and you’re this consistent,’ and he is telling everybody else – which is 15 to 20 people – that he is in love with me, then I’m gonna give you a chance,” she said
In 2018, Marquez found out she was pregnant, which she said came with mental, physical, spiritual, and sexual abuse.
“I was forced to engage in sexual activity that I did not want to do. I was still strangled on multiple occasions. I had to willingly engaged in these sexual activities to keep myself safe, pretty much,” she said.
Marquez said Bishop enjoyed having polygamous relationships, and would often force her to have sexual relations with multiple women.
“There were times when I told him, ‘I don’t want to be with her, I don’t want to be with you.’ And he would say, ‘You don’t have a choice. You do what I say to do,’ and then it turned physical because I was in such resistance,” she recalled.
During her time in the cult, Marquez said Bishop had at least four children, including her daughter.
“He stated to me that the reason why he wanted all of the wives was that he wanted to impregnate all of us, so that we can have his children, so that he can meet his children together, so that he can inbreed,” Marquez added.
While she gave birth to her daughter in Jan. 2019, she said she never received the necessary medical attention.
“I had to be rushed to a hospital two hours away from where we originally stayed. And I was so incompetent, that I couldn’t even make a decision for myself to either get a C-section or her be pulled out with forceps. So I allowed the living God to do whatever it did whatever was gonna happen, and by the grace of the Lord, she was able to be delivered safely and I was able to make it through the delivery process as well,” Marquez recalled.
On August 2020, she said Bishop forced her to marry him at a Las Vegas chapel.
“He stated in front of us that if anything happened to him, then I would be able to bail him out of any jail or prison, or anything like that. And that was the reason for him marrying me, other than the fact that he wants to completely destroy me as a person,” she said.
With her daughter born, Marquez realized she didn’t want her near Bishop. She tried running away three times unsuccessfully.
“I willingly kept going back to him because he would offer false pretentions telling me we’re going to be monogamous, that we’re going to keep our family together,” she said. “I thought ‘we’re going to allow the other people to have a voice in the camp, we’re going to be a group instead of a cult.'”
Three months later, in Nov. 2020, Marquez said she was finally able to run away from Bishop – on her fourth try. She planned this escape for three months and had to sneak around and grab her passport and social security card. All other identification was left behind.
“He literally held me hostage, he took all of my identification, my passport, my birth certificate, my social, my bank cards, everything, you name it, medical documentations,” she explained.
Marquez grabbed her daughter and left with no money, but a lot of hope. The coming months, though, were not easy either.
“I’m actually going to counseling, taking my time to heal because it’s so much trauma,” she said. “I got into my Bible and I started reading it and my entire life changed and so now I am a testimony for a living God.”
Months later in April 2021, Marquez said Bishop showed up to her family’s house in Louisiana.
“I have death threats, multiple videos of death threats that he has made against my life and my child,” she added. “I have evidence of him threatening to kill us.”
Marquez filed for a protection order in September after getting those threats but once it expired, the threats started again.
She said throughout her time at the cult, Bishop lived off of other members’ PPP loans and life savings. She even gave him her $3,000 college fund, while others gave tens of thousands of dollars.
Another former cult member, Treasure Young, who is now 21 years old, sad she gave Bishop her unemployment money while being part of the group. She joined the cult while the group lived in Puerto Rico, around April 2021.
“The second day, they had me running all rocks. I was running on rocks barefoot and I was confused,” Young said. “We’re running laps after laps. I’m like, when are we gonna be done? It felt like glass and they hurt.”
A few months later, she remembers waking up in her tent to screaming.
“It woke me up on my sleep,” Young explained. “They were so loud I felt like someone was trying to kill somebody. That night I cried because I didn’t know what to do. I was confused. I didn’t know what to do. I was like, ‘How can you be this person?'”
Young was part of the cult for four months. Before leaving, she remembered a Facetime call with Bishop.
“He said, ‘You got to whip your woman with a belt. You got to beat your woman until she’s almost about to die.’ Then he said it turned him on when the women were hitting each other,” she added.
For both Marquez and Young, the news about Bishop’s arrest last week came with a sigh of relief.
“I left because I was worried about my safety and I was worried if I was going to harm someone because I wasn’t going to keep allowing someone to slap me or disrespect me to the extent that they were,” Young recalled.
Marquez’s main concern was always about the children, and making sure they were protected. Her biggest fear was that they likely weren’t while living near Bishop.
“Because I had a child, she became the number one priority in my life. And outside of me, she is in danger. That is her father, if I was to allow him to be anywhere near her or him just be in society, she’s a target for the devil to consume, and to manipulate and destroy as a person – I will not let that happen to my child, or my children for that matter. I want to save other people’s children,” she said.
I randomly saw this story as I was asking God for direction. Honestly, sometimes I get tired of talking about relationships because I feel like people mostly don’t listen, and the ones who get it already know. However that is a false belief. As someone constantly hits me up to thank me for my books.
So the entire message of me introducing you to this story is because I remember my WHY. From the inside out, women often want people to feel sorry for them when they’ve been abused. Most times they don’t know WHY or WHAT about them caused the problem.
The problem with many women is that you want a man to love you so badly that you are willing to forego your own desires, feeling and emotions. You’re willing to do what it takes in HOPES of pleasing a man and that he will one day wake up and see the value of your light, which is your unconditional love for him. But what you don’t see is the lack of love for yourself.
You hear so much about compromise, submission and listening to a man. Yet when a woman like me speaks about the highest degrees of self-love someone always comes along to call it delusion, to say a woman expects too much and to tell a woman wha she can’t be, do and have.
Here is the thing: A man has to love you with all of his heart and want to protect and provide for you. Oftentimes he has to lose you in order to awaken. He can’t awaken with you there by his side, trying to wake him up.
It’s okay to believe in a man. But choose to believe in a man who follows God, has great purpose, humility and takes pride in seeing you happy. No one is perfect. You’re the first to admit that you’re not perfect. But that doesn’t mean you have to put up with b.s. from a man who sees women as objects to abuse and control. A good man brings you pleasure and not just sexually. He does that too on top of delighting your senses, your heart and your soul. More importantly, a good man is a friend who tells you the truth about what he’s on with you. But first you have to be a friend to yourself, and love yourself enough to walk away from any man who doesn’t value your presence.
It’s not about what you do for a man, it’s about what your presence does to HIS spirit. When a man truly honors your spirit, he would never intentionally bring you harm.
What many people who preach on self-love in relationships don’t understand is that this is not something that naturally comes to every woman. Depending on where you grew up and the household you grew up in you may not be aware of vibrational matches, generational curses or the truth path to God.
Life is definitely not fair. Not everyone starts at the same starting line. Not everyone is here to learn the same lessons. So while you may look at the woman as dumb, understand that her soul’s journey is different from yours. You don’t know until you know. That’s where you empathy comes in at. Empathy for what some souls must go through in order to reach a state of awareness you already may naturally have. Or maybe you simply decided to learn from wisdom…. Even that is not something every soul seeks, until AFTER they get tired. As this woman said, the minute she got into her bible and sought God is when everything changes.
Get into God and your bible right now. There is no need to wait until your in too much pain, too tired, too embarrassed or feeling too lost.
P.S. It’s not wise to be with a man who is controlled by his penis. He will eventually lose his power. Power is siphoned from men when he doesn’t invest it into a women who inspires him to rise and become a better man.
“And another one!!!! We are so excited that the cat is out the bag,” Eva wrote in her post, which was originally posted by Mike, alongside a picture of her and her husband sharing an embrace. “there goes my summer… But I could not be happier.
Meanwhile, in his post, Mike penned, “My wife, Eva and I are so excited to welcome our new addition, baby Madison, into the Sterling family coming this fall. You’re about to be a godfather @demetricdotson. #sterlingsays #sterlingontheway #madisonsterling.”
Their celebrity pals quickly sent the couple congratulatory messages. “Ain’t nobody told me nothing. Happy for you both. Sterling, party of 6,” Steve Jones wrote in the comments section. Monique Samuels added, “Congrats love!!!!!”
Hazel-E commented, “Congrats Eva.” Meanwhile,fellow “RHOA” alum seemingly thought it might be an April Fool’s joke writing,, “Omg!!!! Is the real?” The reality TV star, however, shared that she was “Sooooo excited!” over the news.
Eva and Mike already have two sons, Maverick, 2, and Michael Jr., 2. She also has a daughter, named Marley Rae, from her relationship with singer Kevin McCall.
She’s always been vocal about wanting to expand her family. “I always said I wanted five, right?” she said during an appearance on The Daily Dish in March 2020. “Well, I said I wanted none, and then I met the man of my dreams, and I said I wanted five, but now after having complications, like, a lot of complications with the last pregnancy, I’m not super eager to, like, jump in and find out that it’s positive on the stick.”
Congratulations to Eva and Mike. So excited that Eva found real love.
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