Why are Jada Pinkett and Will Smith such an unbearable couple?

Please, can someone, anyone just sign those divorce papers

They say it was the slap that was heard around the world and as someone who was watching the Oscars live when Will Smith told Chris Rock to keep his wife’s name out his f***ing mouth, that display of violence was deeply unsettling to witness.

Here was a man so passionate about defending his wife that he forever ruined the biggest moment of his career. So, I can understand why people were thrown when Jada announced last week that her and Will have actually been separated since 2016.

Now, while I’m not defending the slap for one minute, I don’t necessarily hate on Will for referring to Jada as his ‘wife’ in that moment, but what I am absolutely sick of, is these two giving us all whiplash while sharing the most about their marriage.

In November 2021 after releasing his own book, Will made the nauseating statement that, “Me and Jada, to this day, if we start talking, it’s four hours. It’s four hours if we exchange a sentence. It’s the centre of why we’ve been able to sustain [our relationship] and why we are still together, not choking the life out of each other.”

However, in April 2020, Jada filmed an episode of her Facebook chat show Red Table Talk with Will, where she admitted having an “entanglement”, while the pair were separated. However, of course this affair helped them discover their unconditional love.

But, two years later, Jada made another admission that she never wanted to marry Will and cried her way down the aisle.

Remember though, they aren’t choking the life out of each other like everyone else. Oh no, they are choking the life out of us.

Fast forward to last week and Jada is promoting her book, so what better time to confess that her and Will have actually been separated for 7 years.

But wait, breaking news, Jada confessed in her latest interview which aired yesterday that her and Will are, “Working very hard at bringing our relationship together. Back to a life partnership.”

Apart from using therapy words like “healing” every other sentance, I really can’t see the difference between Will and Jada and those annoying Instagram couples who feel the need to share their entire life story on every other post.

You know the kind that make out how happy they are, only to post cryptic quotes when their “perfect” relationship unravels months later.

It’s hilarious in some ways because we, as a society, are so hungry for celebrity gossip. Remember the ‘Team Aniston’, ‘Team Jolie’ t-shirts?

The problem is, that Will and Jada’s relationship has a very uncanny valley element to it. We don’t believe in them and therefore we don’t care about them, despite their protests about how much deeper their relationship is than everyone else’s.

While a lot of Hollywood relationships are set up to boost the careers of individuals, I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that Will and Jada’s is ruining theirs.