Will Smith Jokes About Being Off the Grid in First Post Since Jada’s Marriage Revelations

Will Smith is leaving negativity aside and taking a moment to himself.

In his first Instagram post since Jada Pinkett Smith’s bombshell revelations about their marriage, the actor hinted at the heavy media attention the two have gotten because of Pinkett Smith’s words.

The post included a compilation of clips of Smith on a fun boat trip with friends. In one clip, he is seen hilariously taking a nap as his cellphone continues to ring and ping; when he wakes up, he shakes his head with a tired smile. “Notifications off:),” he wrote in the caption.

Wife Pinkett Smith commented two laughing emojis: “😂🤣.”

The King Richard star’s post comes days after Pinkett Smith revealed in an NBC News interview with Hoda Kotb to discuss her memoir, Worthy, that she and Smith have been separated since 2016. “Why it fractured … that—that’s a lot of things … By the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying. I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be,” she said.

The two married in 1997 and share two kids, Jaden, 25, and Willow, 22. Smith additionally has 30-year-old son Trey from his first marriage, to Sheree Zampino.

Smith reacted to his wife’s tell-all interview in a discussion with the The New York Times, admitting that her words “woke him up.”

“When you’ve been with someone for more than half of your life, a sort of emotional blindness sets in,” he said. “And you can all too easily lose your sensitivity to their hidden nuances and subtle beauties.”

He also said he realized Pinkett Smith is more “resilient, clever, and compassionate than [he’d] understood.”

As to where they stand now, Pinkett Smith told Kotb on the Today show today, “There's no divorce on paper. We really have been working hard. That’s the whole thing. We are working very hard at bringing our relationship together. Back to a life partnership.

“There’s no finding another great love,” she said.

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