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Thursday, September 10, 2020

August Alsina claims Will Smith sanctioned affair with Jada Pinkett Smith

Will Smith: su ex-esposa, Jada Pinkett, confesó haber tenido un amante | Spoiler

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith

August Alsina claims Will Smith sanctioned affair with Jada Pinkett Smith

Tashara Jones

June 30, 2020

Singer August Alsina claims he had a love affair with Jada Pinkett Smith — after her husband, Will Smith, allegedly gave the relationship his blessing.

While reps for Pinkett Smith say Alsina’s claims are “absolutely not true,” he has opened up on the alleged affair in an interview with “The Breakfast Club’s” Angela Yee.

He claims, “I actually sat down with Will and had a conversation due to the transformation from their marriage to life partnership … he gave me his blessing.”

Alsina, 27, was introduced to Pinkett Smith, 48, in 2015 by her son, Jaden. He says the two became very close, even vacationing with the family in Hawaii in 2016 and attending the 2017 BET Awards together.

He claims he fell in love with Pinkett Smith, saying, “I totally gave myself to that relationship for years of my life, and I truly and really, really deeply love and have a ton of love for her. I devoted myself to it, I gave my full self to it — so much so to the point that I can die right now and be okay with knowing that I truly gave myself to somebody.”

“And I really loved a person, I experienced that and I know what that feels like — and some people never get that in this lifetime,” Alsina continued. “I know that I am completely blessed and this conversation is difficult because it is so much, that it would be hard for people to understand but — once it starts to affect me and my livelihood — I have to speak up about my truth.”

Alsina even went on to describe Pinkett Smith as “God’s divinity” on her 47th birthday. It is not clear when their alleged affair ended.

August Alsina, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will SmithGetty

The interview is for Alsina’s new YouTube doc, “StateofEMERGEncy: The Rise of August Alsina,” to promote his new album, “The Product III:stateofEMERGEncy.”

During the interview, Yee asked, “Is it disappointing that she [Pinkett Smith] never addressed it to you, because like you said, you lost out on opportunities?”

“I really can’t even get into the thought of that because I am only responsible for myself, right,” Alsina responded. “And I am only responsible for, you know. What I do. When I am repressing and suppressing things and it starts to affect me. I have to address it. I just always stay solid because I never want to be the person to start confusion.”

New Orleans native Alsina’s 2009 song “Nunya” sparked speculation it was about Pinkett Smith with lines like, “Why is you textin me / Asking who next to me / Why you care about who having sex with me / Now you all on my line, why you pressing me?”

The music video is a display of a text message exchange between Alsina as a Bitmoji and a woman by the name of Koren. Koren is Jada’s middle name.

During the interview, Alsina also revealed, “Contrary to what people may believe, I am not a troublemaker. I don’t like drama. Drama actually makes me nauseous.

“And I also don’t think that it is ever important for people to know what I do, who I sleep with, who I date … but in this instance it is very different because as I said, there are so many people that are side-eyeing me, looking at me questionable [sic].

“I have lost money, friendships, relationships behind it and I think it is because people don’t necessarily know the truth. But I have never done anything wrong.”

He added of the Smith family, “I love those people literally like my family. I don’t have a bad thing to say about them. They are beautiful people.”

We reached out to Pinkett Smith’s representative, who responded, “Absolutely not true!!”

PAGE SIX

Thursday, May 24, 2012

30 MINUTES WITH Jada Pinkett Smith / 'I'm scared of clowns'

Jada Pinkett Smith

3O MINUTES WITH

Jada Pinkett Smith: 'I'm scared of clowns'

What's it like being the voice of the hippo in the Madagascar films and the wife of Will Smith?

Catherine Shoard
Thu 24 May 2012

Jada Pinkett Smith with her co-stars and a lion at the Madagascar 3 photocall in Cannes. Photograph: Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images

Hello! How's Cannes?

It's very busy and very beautiful. Oh my goodness. Usually when I have come it's rainy. The first time here I was 20, for Menace II Society. Oh boy, I didn't know anything then. My outfits were just … woah. (1)

Did you have to sleep on the floor?

No, fortunately not. It was a good time to just be naive and young and know absolutely nothing.

Do you ever feel limited doing cartoons? (2)

You have as much space as you need. If I go into a session and I do something and go: "I wasn't happy with that, I'd like to do that again," they say: "OK, not a problem." Whereas, in live action, I tell ya what: it's best that you figure it out that day. You can go back, but there's a lot more studio executives involved on that call. I always have to come back, anyway. I'm the only one out of all of them (3) that never gives a bunch of different options of line readings. I can only imagine what we'd create if we were in a room together.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Will Smith returns to the screen this week in Men in Black 3 and has been speaking about taking four years out so that your children could pursue their acting and singing. (4)

I really needed him by my side. I'm only one person. I needed Daddy.

Do you ever fear your children's careers are taking off too fast?

I'm not one about trying to slow things down. What I try to do is create an atmosphere for my family where we can pretty much have whatever. Because no one can control life, can we? We like to believe that we can but actually we cannot. So what I try to do is create an atmosphere where my children can have whatever comes. Because that is what life is about. Because we could walk out of this room right now and have our lives completely change. That's just the truth of it. And I surely am not going to try to control the current. Lord knows I tried that in my own life. For me to think that I could ever do that for someone else. Boy! I'm not gonna set myself up in that way. I can barely control my own doggone current! So I'm there in great support and so that they can have whatever the higher power has to offer them.

This latest Madagascar film comes down pretty hard against taxidermy. Have your own views on that, or zoos, or circuses, been affected by making the film?

I'm scared of clowns. (5)

You recently spent four months in China.

It's so raw. What you see is what you get. I love that. And my daughter learned Mandarin and when we were at the Nobel peace prize we were on the stage, speaking Mandarin. So, y'know, yeah! Fantastic. I wish she had kept it up. She has a brain. She's very good with languages. She picks them up like this (6). Her next is Spanish. She's like her father in that way. Jaden and I on the other hand … we're the artists.

Has Madagascar affected your approach to work?

The only thing is that when parents introduce me to their kids they say: "She's Gloria!" And they go: "Oh my God! Gloria?" You get the nursery school crowd.

So you're making music again?

We are. We're called Wicked Evolution (7). It's purely creative. I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce. It's free, you can just have it. I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money. I make my music strictly passion. I'm tired of limitations.

Madagascar 3 went down a storm in Cannes and is released on 19 October

Foot notes

(1) Pinkett Smith is currently wearing a navy-blue, deep-plunge, hot-panted playsuit.

(2) She is in Cannes to promote the out-of-competition film Madagascar 3, in which she voices Gloria, a forthright hippo.

(3) Ben Stiller is the lion, Chris Rock the zebra, David Schwimmer the giraffe with whom Pinkett-Smith's character is romatically involved. The third instalment introduces Jessica Chastain as a seductive tigeress and Michael Short as an Italian walrus.

(4) Willow, 11, sang Whip my Hair and is about to star in a remake of Annie. Jaden, 13, took the lead in The Karate Kid remake and raps with Justin Bieber.

(5) Schwimmer is a repeat customer of Cirque du Soleil, particularly its show O. He feels that in the last 15 years, clowning has been taken to another level.

(6) Snaps fingers.

(7) The band previously known as Wicked Wisdom are a metal outfit that opened for Britney Spears in 2004 and played Ozzfest the following year.

THE GUARDIAN