Jada Pinkett Smith’s new memoir, ‘Worthy,’ has opened up the star’s life to the public more than ever before.
Speaking recently with EW, Pinkett Smith discussed how she decided to write the book in the first place and everything from her friendship with Tupac to her marriage with Will Smith.
It was Pinkett Smith’s friend, the life coach and podcaster, Jay Shetty that pushed her to write the memoir like a “bickering” sibling would.
In the conversation she touched on having to relive “a lot of stuff” around the late Tupac Shakur, which she hadn’t done in years.
“But reliving that stuff, that was probably one of the most difficult areas in the book, that I really thought I had reconciled a lot of things and just realized that I hadn’t,” she said.
Pinkett Smith said the rapper would have called her “square” if he had read the book.
She also touched on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars and how the media handled the situation, calling it “unfortunate” and it being “this patriarchal construct of how if a man does something unsavory, it is the woman’s fault no matter what.”
“And I truly didn’t help that I crated that false narrative at my own ‘Red Table’ or allowed that false narrative, assessed that false narrative of being the adulterous wife,” she continued. “Surely it didn't help that moment, knowing what the societal standards or ideas of the power of the feminine and the evil temptress that can somehow make the masculine energy around her do things that he doesn't want to do.”
“Worthy” is available now.