R ick Ross was having a moment. The Falstaffian rapper and entrepreneur was a mere two songs into his inaugural performance at Drai’s, a raucous 30,000-foot nightclub inside Las Vegas’ Cromwell hotel, and “halfway drunk” when he ordered the DJ to stop the music. He found himself transfixed by the …
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Grasping the difference between loneliness and solitude was a game-changer for Willow. Loneliness, she realized, was something that often sent her running in search of distraction from the overwhelming emotions that live in that silence. Solitude, on the other hand, was a teacher. “When we’re alone, when there’s nobody there …
Read More »Will Smith Calls Relationship With Jada Pinkett Smith a 'Sloppy Public Experiment in Unconditional Love'
Will Smithopened up about his “tumultuous” relationship withJada Pinkett Smith, who recently revealed they were separated for six years before the infamous 2022 Oscars slap. The actor joined his wife onstage during her visit to Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Library promoting her new memoirWorthy. “I just really wanted to come out …
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Jada Pinkett Smith is baring it all ahead of her new book, Worthy. On Friday night, Pinkett Smith sat down with Today‘s Hoda Kotb and discussed her “complicated marriage” to Will Smith, the infamous Oscar’s slap, and her healing journey in an NBC News primetime special that aired Friday. The …
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Jada Pinkett Smith revealed that she and husband Will Smith “had been living separate lives” for nearly six years and were attending the 2022 Oscars “as family, not as husband and wife,” when Will slapped Chris Rock over a joke he made about Jada. In an excerpt from her upcoming …
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The recurring pattern in Will Smtih and Jada Pinkett Smith‘s marriage is one of public defenses and reconciliations — and private rifts and separations. Maybe that’s the way all celebrity relationship struggles should go, but tabloid fodder and the rumors that these stars do choose to comment on often leave …
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R.I.P. to one of the best talk shows in the game. Red Table Talk will no longer air on Facebook Watch after parent company Meta shuttered all of its Facebook Watch shows for a pivot to VR programming. Hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris, the three …
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It was nearly a year ago that Will Smith marched onto the Dolby Theatre stage and smacked the piss out of host Chris Rock in the middle of the Oscars ceremony — all for the crime of making an off-color joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s hairdo. You surely …
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Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenny Walker, talked in-depth about the night his girlfriend was shot and killed by police on the new episode of Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk. Taylor and Walker were in their apartment on the night of March 13, 2020, when Louisville Metro Police executed a no-knock …
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Jada Pinkett Smith has found herself largely on the receiving end of other people’s life stories in recent years as host of the Red Table Talk. Now, the 51-year-old industry veteran is gearing up to publish her first memoir with the same level of honesty and authenticity she has come …
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