JADA PINKETT SMITH ‘I WAS A DEALER’

The actress is ready for her dark past to come to light

OPENING UP ABOUT HER PAST in a July 20 radio interview, Jada Pinkett Smith revealed that she was dealing drugs when she met Tupac Shakur for the first time in the mid-1980s. “It’s kind of hard because I haven’t really told the whole story,” she said of her relationship with the late rapper. “One of the things that’s very interesting that I’ve never really said before is that when I first met Pac, I was a drug dealer.”

In June, the actress, 45, spoke out to correct what she said were “deeply hurtful” misrepresentations of her relationship with the late rapper in the new biopic All Eyez on Me. “I know that most people want to always connect it in this romance thing and that’s just because they don’t have the story,” she clarified in the radio interview. “I just decided that this one little piece was important to share finally because it gives more insight to who we were. It was about survival ... As I was coming out of the life, he was coming more into the life.” n