Jada Pinkett Smith continues to share details about her friendship with Tupac Shakur. In a new interview the ‘Girls Trip’ actress revealed that while the rapper was serving time at Rikers he proposed to her.
In a preview clip from Showtime’s ‘All the Smoke’ podcast featuring the actress, she opens up about why she believes he popped the question and why it was so difficult for her to write about it in her upcoming book. “I talk about this in the book, when I go to see him in Rikers. When I wrote about that in the book and when I had to talk about it, speak my words for the audible version of the book, that was probably one of the more painful parts,” she explained.
“Seeing him there, the condition that he was in and having to leave him there, he was in bad shape,” Pinkett Smith continued. “And so, when he asked me to get married, he was at Rikers and I knew at that time that A.) He needed somebody to do time with him, which I was gonna do anyway. You ain’t have to marry me to do that, I’m here.”
“He just wanted to feel that solidified foundation.” Pinkett Smith also believed had she said yes, it wouldn’t have lasted — saying, “I promise you, he would have married me and divorced me as soon as his ass left.”
“I just think it was the mind state he was in,” she continued, saying that his overall demeanor was “starting to shift” in a positive direction before he was incarcerated. “I think that for him, he just felt like, okay, if I can tether myself, it will keep me on a trajectory,” she concluded.
On Thursday Jada Pinkett also spoke with Rolling Out and explained further why her and Tupac could only be friends.
“If there is such a thing as past lives I definitely think Pac and I have traveled a few together.” The interviewer, Christal Jordan then asked Jada if she regrets keeping her and Tupac’s relationship in the friend zone. “It just wasn’t possible it was no chemistry between us! You know I talk about it in the book.”
Jada Pinkett Smith and Tupac Shakur were close friends during their time in the entertainment industry. They first met in high school at the Baltimore School for the Arts in Maryland and developed a deep and enduring friendship.