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Despite Pinkett Smith’s revelation that the two have been separated, the Hollywood couple has been candid about why divorce “just can’t be an option.” Jada Pinkett Smith reveals in her upcoming memoir that her marriage with Will Smith is not what it appears.

Pinkett Smith and Smith have been separated since 2016. While not legally divorced, the two have been living “completely separate lives” for the past seven years, she said in a prime-time special with Hoda Kotb that aired Oct. 13. “I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce,” she told Hoda. “We will work through whatever. And I just haven’t been able to break that promise.”

At the end of the interview, Hoda asked Pinkett Smith directly: “Why not just amicably divorce?” Pinkett Smith similarly provided a straightforward answer: ““We don’t want to.” “We love our family. And we love each other. It’s more of a life partnership,” she explained. “Now, 10 years from now, Hoda, who knows?” Their current focus is on “deep healing,” Pinkett Smith added. As for the possibility of reconciliation?

“He’s getting old!” Pinkett Smith joked in response. “Who’s going to be there for him, Hoda? It’s going to be me.” The two have publicly discussed their views on divorce over the years. For example, in 2008, Smith once said on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show that “divorce just can’t be an option.”

The couple has faced public scandals like news of Pinkett Smith’s “entanglement” with August Alsina emerging in 2020, and Smith’s altercation with Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars. Smith slapped the Oscars host for joking about Pinkett Smith’s alopecia. The couple often shared their relationship’s highs and lows with vulnerability and candidness.

Smith appeared on Pinkett Smith’s now canceled Facebook Watch show “Red Table Talk” twice — first in 2018, to talk through their relationship story and their “unique union,” then in 2020, to talk through Pinkett Smith’s “entanglement” with family friend August Alsina. Here’s what the duo has said specifically about the topic of divorce — which might explain why they’ve chosen not to get one.