Jada Pinkett Smith Denies Singer’s Claim Will Smith Gave Blessing To Alleged Affair

Calling an emergency “Red Table Talk” session because there’s some Smith family business that needs some handling. 

Jada Pinkett Smith has denied an allegation from R&B singer and family friend August Alsina that the two carried on a yearslong romantic relationship with the blessing of her husband, Will Smith. 

Pinkett Smith’s reps told Page Six that Alsina’s claims are “absolutely not true.” HuffPost has also reached out to her reps for comment.

In an emotional, wide-ranging interview with “The Breakfast Club” host Angela Yee, released on Tuesday, Alsina claimed that Will and Jada are “life partners” who are no longer romantically involved, which allowed him to have an affair with the “Girls Trip” star.

“I actually sat down with Will and had a conversation,” Alsina told Yee. “Due to the transformation from their marriage to life partnership that they’ve spoken on several times, and it not involving romanticism, he gave me his blessing. I totally gave myself to that relationship for years of my life, and I truly and really, really deeply loved 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 OK with knowing that I truly gave myself to somebody,” he continued, adding, “I really loved the person that I experienced that and know what that feels like, and some people never get that in this lifetime.” 

Pinkett Smith, 51, and the “Bad Boys” star, 51, wed in 1997 and have become one of the most recognizable and long-lasting couples in Hollywood.

While the two have never publicly spoken about infidelity, they have been candid about the struggles they’ve faced. On Pinkett Smith’s Facebook talk show, she’s discussed how they’ve outgrown the term “married” and are instead “redefining the marriage as a life partnership.”

The couple also admitted that for a period of time they “broke up within our marriage” in order to rebuild it, but they said they never considered divorce as an option.

Alsina told Yee that he fell in love with Pinkett Smith after they were introduced at her children Jaden and Willow Smith’s London concert in 2015. He then developed a close bond with the entire family, joining them on a trip to Hawaii the following year.

Alsina and Pinkett Smith have been photographed and seen together many times in the years since, including on the BET Awards red carpet back in 2017. 

In 2018, he appeared on “Red Table Talk” and explained how Pinkett Smith had helped him overcome his struggle with addiction. She introduced him as a “dear family friend” at the time. 

When asked if he was disappointed that Pinkett Smith never confirmed their alleged relationship, the singer said he harbored no ill feelings toward her. 

“I really can’t even get into the thought of that because I am only responsible for myself, right? I am only responsible for, you know, what I do,” he said. “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 cause confusion.”

While Alsina didn’t give a clear timeframe for the alleged affair with Pinkett Smith, he said that his sister’s death in 2018 was one of the reasons they called it quits.

Although he said he’d lost “money, friendships and relationships” due to rumors of the affair over the years, Alsina maintained that he still “really, genuinely” loves Pinkett Smith and the rest of her family. 

“I don’t have a bad thing to say about them,” he added. “They are beautiful people.”