Jada Pinkett Smith to publish ‘no holds barred’ memoir

AMERICAN actress Jada Pinkett Smith is releasing her “no holds barred” memoir in autumn 2023, its publishers revealed in a bombshell announcement yesterday.

e book, which comes from HarperCollins imprint Dey Street Books, promises to explore “Jada’s complicated marriage to Will Smith”, according to a press release.

A description quoted by magazine says the upcoming autobiography “chronicles lessons learned in the course of a difficult, but riveting journey — a rollercoaster ride from the depths of suicidal depression to the heights of personal rediscovery and the celebration of authentic feminine power”.

e press release teases: “With no holds barred, Jada reveals her unconventional upbringing in Baltimore — from the child of two addicts to a promising theatre student and a violent interlude as a petty drug-dealer — followed by a parallel rise to stardom alongside her close friend 2Pac, then falling in love with and marrying Will Smith, and a joyous embrace of motherhood.”

She began dating Will before he was legally divorced from his first wife Sheree Zampino and married him 1995 while pregnant with their first child. ey became a famously close-knit showbiz power couple, welcoming two children, Jaden, 24, and Willow, 21, who followed them into the business at a young age.

However, over the past few years their marital problems seeped into the public eye as Jada publicly aired out her “entanglement” with another man.

Will then argued in that “marriage for us can’t be a prison” and revealed “Jada never believed in conventional marriage”.

Matters came to a head when Will marched onstage at the Oscars this March and slapped Chris Rock for making a joke about Jada.

In a grovelling apology statement issued months later, Will insisted that Jada “had nothing to do” with the slap, contrary to widespread public conjecture.

e press release for Jada’s new book says: “At the heart of this powerful book, are two unexpected love stories, one being Jada's complicated marriage to Will Smith, the other being with herself.”

Laying bare some of the other content of the upcoming memoir, the description dishes that she was “in crisis at age 40” in 2011, faced with “excruciating choices” that “she was forced to make to redefine her life in every way”. Will himself released a self-titled memoir near the end of 2021, whereupon it spent 15 weeks on the bestseller list. – Mail Online.