Jada Pinkett Smith set tongues wagging again this week following a recent interview promoting her upcoming memoir, “Worthy.”
Speaking to Rolling Out Magazine, the Hollywood star was asked about her relationship with late rapper Tupac Shakur. Pinkett Smith says she and Shakur were “soulmates.”
“We have soulmates — our children can be our soulmates,” she said when asked if she would use the term to describe Shakur. “There’s all kinds of definitions of soulmate.”
Despite Shakur being her soulmate, the “Nutty Professor” star says that their bond lacked “chemistry.”
Pinkett Smith went on to add, “I wish I could get people to understand. And I know it’s so hard [to believe] but it wasn’t just me. It was him, too. It was almost like God made us that way. It’s like, ‘Look, we’ll put y’all together, alright? Y’all gonna be a dynamic duo, but I’ll tell you right now: I’m gonna make it so you’re not gonna be able to get together,’ because that just wasn’t the purpose,” she explained.
Pinkett Smith laughed, adding, “If there is such a thing as past lives, I definitely think Pac and I have traveled a few together in various forms.”
Shakur was shot and killed on the night of Sept. 7, 1996. At the time of the shooting, Skahur was in a BMW driven by Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight. While waiting at a red light near the Las Vegas Strip, a white Cadillac pulled up next to them and a shooter opened fire. He died a week later at the age of 25 after being struck several times.
Pinkett has been married to Will Smith for 19 years. However, this week, she revealed that they had been separated for seven years.
“In regards to, how do we present that to people? We hadn’t figured that out,” she shared, adding that she “made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce, We will work through … whatever. I just haven’t been able to break that promise,” she added.
“Worthy” will be released on Oct. 17
