โWhen I wrote about that in the book and when I had to talk about it, speak my words for the Audible version of the book, that was probably one of the more painful parts,โ she said. โSeeing him there, the condition that he was in and having to leave him there. He was in bad shape. And so, when he asked me to get married, he was at Rikers [Island].
โI knew at that time that he needed somebody to do time with him, which I was gonna do anyway. He didnโt have to marry me to do that. Iโm here. He needed a rock. Because of our friendship and everything we had been through together, he just wanted to feel that solidified foundation.โ
She proceeded and uttered: โI promise you, he wouldโve married me and divorced me as soon as his ass got out [of prison]. He wouldโve! [โฆ] I just think it was the mind state that he was in. He wrote me this long letter, and even before โPac went to jail, he was starting to shift in a certain manner. Good, really good.
โAnd I think that for him, he just felt like, โOkay, if I can tether myself, itโll keep me on a trajectory.โ But trust me, he wouldโve divorced me as soon as he โ one thing he wouldnโt want me as is a wife. I know that for a fact! But I think just being at Rikers, it just kinda shook him a little.โ
Jada Pinkett Smith Reveals Tupac Asked Her to Marry Him.
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Jada Pinkett Smith also shared about not talking to 2Pac during the last year of his life due to a frenzied altercation they had.
โI just felt like he was off track a little bit, and I spoke on that and we got into probably one of the most heated arguments we ever had,โ she expressed. โโPac and I getting into heated confrontations was not unusual. This happened to be a very heated one, and I didnโt speak to him for a year.
โI was hurt, I was pissed, and I really kinda dug my heels in the ground. I was just like, โHe went too far and heโs gonโ have to call me, and Iโm standing my ground on it.โ And I learned that, donโt waste time like that. Itโs like, a whole year out of my pride. Both of us. Very prideful. Just hard-headed, and prideful. โCause none of it mattered.โ
She emphasized: โThe day [2Pacโs mother] Afeni called me, when I found out he had been shot again, I didnโt give a [fuck]. That whole conversation and whatever was going on with Suge [Knight] and all that, it didnโt matter. So why should it have mattered for a whole year?
โIt didnโt matter. And surely once he was gone. So I just learned, man, donโt hold on to bullshit. Itโs not worth it. โCause you just never know.โ
Jada Pinkett Smith sounds like she didn’t talk to 2Pac the last year of his life over a heated argument where she felt like 2Pac went too far.
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Jada Pinkett Smith and 2Pac first met as teenagers at the Baltimore School for the Arts and became tight buddies. โAs soon as he approached me, he was like a magnet,โ she once said. โOnce you paid attention to him, he kinda sucked you in โ and we hit it off from that moment on.โ
Fast forward, she took the plunge with Will Smith in 1997 and shares two children with the one-time Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star.
In his memoir Will who came out in 2021, Smith disclosed his โraging jealousyโ over the close bond that 2Pac shared with his future missis.
โThough they were never intimate, their love for each other is legendary โ they defined โride or die,โโ he penned. โAt the beginning of our relationship, my mind was tortured by their connection. He was โPAC! and I was me.
โHe triggered the perception of myself as a coward. I hated that I wasnโt what he was in the world, and I suffered a raging jealousy: I wanted Jada to look at me like that.โ
Smith continued to acknowledge that he felt a โtwisted kind of victoryโ when Jada would spend more time with him than the Death Row rapper.
โIf she chose me over Tupac, there was no way I could be a coward,โ he added. โI was in a room with Tupac on multiple occasions, but I never spoke to him. The way Jada loved โPac rendered me incapable of being friends with him. I was too immature.โ