Will Smith has now responded to Jada's book for the first time. Let's put up the picture full mass, a lot of twists and turns. Put on your seatbelt. No, Jada has not married. Tupac's hologram. At least not yet. [00:00:16] But I still predict that will come. After all of the controversy surrounding Jada Pinkett Smith, her memoir, her husband, Will Smith, has finally responded online. So Will posted a video that said that he turned off all his notifications. [00:00:32] All right, here it is. >> Speaker 1: Fun fact about me. I can take a nap almost anywhere. [00:00:54] >> Speaker 1: Okay, so he also said supportive things. All right, despite some unflattering things that were said about him in the book, he publicly supports the memoir. Here it is. >> Speaker 2: All right, you guys, this is the first time I'm gonna see the book. [00:01:11] This is it, we're all together. I have not seen the book yet, we just got the. >> [APPLAUSE] [00:01:26] >> Speaker 3: I also have a letter from Will. Okay, congrats, Dink. I just turned the final page of Worthy and Damn. Can I get you to do the damn? How would he say it? >> Speaker 2: Damn. [00:01:42] >> Speaker 3: I just turned the final page of Worthy and Damn. It is amazing to realize that despite having lived most of my life by your side, I still found myself shocked and stunned and caught off guard, [00:02:00] laughing, then inspired, then heartbroken. I was all over the place. It's one thing to hear anecdotes at a family barbecue, but it was truly overwhelming to take in your story. [00:02:17] Potently condensed in this way, you are one of one. A rare blend of power and delicate sensitivity. I know it wasn't easy to excavate the depths in that way. [00:02:34] I applaud and honor you. If I had read this book 30 years ago, I definitely would have hugged you more. I'll start now. [00:02:50] Welcome to the authors club. I love you endlessly. Now go get some merlot and take a rest. >> [LAUGH] He know I can't have no merlot. >> [LAUGH] >> That's beautiful. [00:03:08] That's why I can't divorce that joker. >> Speaker 1: No, that ain't why. Put up the picture of Will Smith and Jada again for me, because I got a couple of questions here. But first of all, it was a very sweet letter. I really wish I could believe it, but you all deceived us for [00:03:27] seven years about your marital status. And so much so that Will Smith slapped a whole grown man on the Oscars in front of the world over a lie. You all were not even together, not living together, not romantically involved. [00:03:45] He said he did it because, well, so I have a hard time believing anything. I don't know what's staged, what's choreographed, what's coordinated, what's for the camera and what's legit, what's real. [00:04:01] That's my dilemma. Let's put up Chris Rock and Jada. I told you it's gonna be some twists and turns here. As previously claiming that Chris Rock did ask her out on a date years ago when rumors of a divorce were swirling. [00:04:20] Jada shared about her reaction to Rock's special that talked about the Oscar slap. In an interview with the New York Times, Pinkett Smith reveals that Rock's words bothered her. I remember my heart piercing, my heart cracking, and I remember my feelings being so hurt. [00:04:37] And then I remember being able to smile and wish him well at the same time. Now I'm gonna just pause in this moment. Now if you remember that moment, Will Smith was laughing at the joke. Go back to the video. You will see Will Smith was laughing at the joke until he looked at Jada. Then he went up and slapped a human being. [00:04:52] All right, Pinkett also stated why she is speaking out on everything. Now at the end of the day, when you're on your deathbed or Chris is on his deathbed or Will is on his deathbed or whoever, all this doesn't matter. That's true. [00:05:08] And so just learning how to exist in that pocket right now, not waiting until I'm on my deathbed, let's do it right now, okay? Jada also claimed that Tupac, you're gonna go back to Tupac. If you're talking about Jada, you're gonna talk about Tupac. [00:05:25] And it's really unfair to Will. How can you compete with a dead ancestor? You can't compete with that. Anyway, while in jail at Rikers, she claims that the rapper proposed to her, and she declined the proposal. [00:05:44] Now, the only reason I bring this up is because there has been a massive dispute of this claim. Here it is. >> Speaker 4: Jada is currently on her pay attention to me tour, and she is making all these wild claims, including that Tupac proposed to her while he was at Rikers, really? [00:06:01] The math isn't mathing. So let's take a look. Tupac was convicted of sexual assault charges on February 8th 1995. From there, he was sent to Rikers prison, only to be transferred less than a month later to Clinton Correctional Facility. [00:06:16] And she specifically said she went to see him. This was not on the phone. >> When I go to see him in Rikers, probably one of the more painful parts, seeing him there, the condition that he was in and having to leave him there. >> Speaker 1: Cool, so prior to going into Rikers, [00:06:32] Tupac already had a girlfriend named Keisha. He proposed to Keisha. Her words in a September 2011 interview, he proposed to Keisha before he even went into prison, they were already engaged. They got married in April. [00:06:49] And in the time that he got sentenced and was taken to prison, Keisha actually moved closer to be by him and be by the prison and saw him on a near daily basis. >> Speaker 2: When he asked me to get married, he was at Rikers. [00:07:06] >> Speaker 4: So you're telling me that in the three to four week window that he was at Rikers, engaged to another woman who had moved closer to the prison and was there almost every day. Tupac proposed to Jada but, hey, Jess, you might be saying to yourself, Tupac wasn't known to be a one woman man. [00:07:22] He was no angel. Fair enough, let's see where Jada was during February of 1995, which was, as we've already established, the only time she would have been able to see Tupac at Rikers, since he was only there for less than a month. You see, Jada had already met Will Smith in 1994 on the set of Fresh Prince for [00:07:41] Bel Air. But Will Smith was married, and so nothing happened between them. But in February of 1995, Will Smith was served divorce papers by his wife. Five days later, on February 19th, Will called Jada and said, are you single? [00:07:58] And she said yep. Will said we're together now. Jada said, cool, and she immediately flew to LA. For the record, Keisha and Tupac stayed married for about 10 months. They got their marriage annulled about four or five months after Tupac was released from prison. [00:08:15] He was bailed out by Suge Knight. It wasn't long after that that he met Kidada Jones. Kidada and Tupac were living together and engaged when Tupac was shot and killed. Kidada was the one that was there with him at the hospital the night he died. Kidada was handed his bloody clothes. [00:08:31] She was the one who told him, we all love you, before he slipped into a coma and never woke up. Keisha spoke with Tupac several days before he died because even though their marriage was annulled, they still remained good friends. And I can't help but notice that all of the women who are actually part of his [00:08:49] life in a meaningful way are the ones that have just kept quiet. They've kept silent, they've kept their memories to themselves and not tried to use a dead man as their limelight. And the person who's squawking about him the most is making claims that [00:09:05] can't even be verified and don't make sense. >> Speaker 1: And I got to say that's not the only influencer who has put together a significantly contrary timeline of events. David, it had to be done. [00:09:21] >> Speaker 5: I'm glad there are people out there who serve the role of journalism to try to see if any of this stuff makes sense or measures up whether the dates match so good to this influencer who expose this. I tend to think that most people's relationships are complicated, and so I don't make judgments about Jada or Will Smith or what they went through. [00:09:40] But when you start to leverage the public perceptions about you to sell movies or to sell books, that's why I start to get a little bit sort of squeamish. And it does seem like so much of what they've been saying for the last several years was simply for their public reputations that they would then monetize, [00:09:56] not because it was necessarily the truth. >> Speaker 1: Right and listen, I know some people are going to push back on me for talking about it and being critical and I'm going to say this, all right? They brought this to us via the red table. They could have just talked about it at the dinner table and [00:10:14] none of this would be public. That's my comment.