Jada Pinkett Smith has said she never wanted to marry Will Smith.
The resurfaced Red Table Talk clip from 2018 shows the Matrix actress talking about her shotgun wedding to the King Richard star.
It emerged days after Will infamously slapped Chris Rock on live TV after he made a joke about Jada’s hairstyle, when she suffers from alopecia.
He has since been banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years and stepped down from the Academy.
Jada recalled “crying down the freaking aisle” as she tied the knot with husband of 24 years.
But she said she only went ahead with the wedding in the first place because she was pregnant with her and Will’s oldest child Jaden.
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She said: “I really didn’t want to get married...I didn’t want a wedding either.
“I was under so much pressure. Being a young actress, being young and pregnant. I didn’t know what to do, but I knew I never wanted to be married.”
Will, who also appeared in the clip, added: “We only got married because Gammy (Jada’s mum Adrienne Banfield-Norris) was crying.”
Jada and Will tied the knot on New Year’s Day 1997 at the Cloisters, a medieval-style mansion near Baltimore near where Jada grew up.
The nuptials were so secret guests weren’t even told the venue and instead had to arrive at a hotel and hand their limo driver an envelope with directions to get there.
The bride wore a high neck, long sleeve champagne coloured full-length velvet dress by Badgley Mischka. While Will looked very Nineties in a matching white suit.
Despite their big day appearing to go off without a hitch, it was described as “horrible” as Jada was three months pregnant at the time.
Jada’s mum Adrienne said: “The wedding was horrible. It was a mess. Jada was sick, she was very unpleasant. She didn’t cooperate with anything.”
“I was so upset that I had to have a wedding. I was so p****ed, “ Jada confessed. “I went crying down the freaking aisle. I cried the whole way.”
Explaining her feelings at the time, the 50-year-old added: “I didn’t want to get married and now Gammy’s gone running to Will, crying about how I don’t want to have a wedding.
“Now I’m being forced to have a wedding, when really I just wanted it to be the two of us [her and Will] on a mountain, because this is serious business.”
Although Jada had reservations about the wedding, Will was excited for their big day.
He said: “There wasn’t a day in my life that I wanted anything other than being married and having a family. From literally five years old, I was picturing what my family would be.”
The couple share son Jaden, 23, and daughter Willow, 21. While Will has an older son, Trey, 29, from his first marriage to actress Sheree Zampino.
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