Jada Pinkett Smith revealed that 2Pac proposed to her while locked up on Riker’s Island. During a recent episode of the All The Smoke podcast, Pinkett opened up about the moment in her upcoming memoir, Worthy.
The actress revealed that recording the words for the Audible version of the book was an excruciating experience for her. She explained that his decision wasn’t based on love but on his need for a “rock.”
“When 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,” she said. “Seeing 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.”
Jada Pinkett Smith reveals that Tupac proposed to her while he was in jail.
Jada and Tupac met at Baltimore School of the Arts as teenagers. They had a tight bond up until Pac’s death.
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— SHOWTIME Basketball (@shobasketball) October 13, 2023“And I knew at that time that he needed somebody to do time with him, which I was gonna do anyway. He didn’t have to marry me to do that. I’m here. He needed a rock. He needed — because of our friendship and everything we had been through together, he just wanted to feel that solidified foundation. ‘Cause I promise you, he would’ve married me and divorced me as soon as his a** got out. He would’ve! I can be real with it… I just think it was the mind state that he was in, you know? He wrote me this long letter and even before ‘Pac went to jail, he was starting to shift in a certain manner.”
Jada later opened up about what she thinks went into his decision. She opined that being her husband would keep him on the “trajectory” of cleaning up his image.
“I think that for him, he just felt like, ‘OK, if I can tether myself, it’ll keep me on a trajectory.’ But trust me, he would’ve divorced me as soon as he — one thing he wouldn’t 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,” she concluded.
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