How Feminism Ruined Will and Jada Pinkett Smith's Marriage (With Shemeka Michelle)

Can't Cancel Rob Smith

The First TV

Politics, News

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Jada Pinkett Smith's memoir "Worthy" has hit with bombshell revelations about her marriage to Hollywood superstar Will Smith, and it has some ugly things to say about feminism, male/female relationship dynamics in 2023, and how the WRONG woman can ruin EVERYTHING a man has built. I brought in my friend Shemeka Michelle for the female perspective this topic needed and she did NOT disappoint! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, problematics. Let's switch gears a little bit.
0:03.3	Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith were Hollywood's hottest couple for decades and decades.
0:08.4	But now Jada just dropped a couple of bombs. She's got a book coming out and she has dropped the
0:14.1	bomb that she and Will Smith have been separated for the better part of seven years.
0:20.3	And this comes after he completely destroyed his career by slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars
0:27.3	in the slap that was heard around the world. This is Rob Smith. This is, can't cancel, Rob Smith.
0:41.6	All right, problematics. Let's have a little palette cleanser today. Let's talk some Hollywood
0:45.6	celebrity culture. And this is, this is very interesting to me because it really did blow my mind
0:51.7	when this news dropped that Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith have been separated for seven years.
0:57.3	This is amidst all of the drama that has been surrounding that relationship. This is amidst Will
1:05.0	Smith basically destroying his career at the peak of a legendary iconic Hollywood career. Okay,
1:12.8	him winning the Oscar for a movie called King Richard in which he played the father to Venus
1:19.6	in Serena Williams and actually a wonderful, wonderful movie. If you've not seen it, I think it's still
1:26.2	on HBO Max right now. It's actually a wonderful movie. He's wonderful in it. Obviously deserve the
1:31.2	Oscar. This was literally the pinnacle of a career that has spanned, you know, 30 years at this
1:39.4	point. This dude went from rap to one of the biggest sitcoms on television to being a major,
1:45.6	major movie star. I would say that he was one of the last movie stars. And then Chris Rock makes
1:51.6	a bad joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's bald head. Will Smith walks up on the stage and slaps him
1:57.3	in front of the entire world. And I think a lot of people don't realize because the outrage about
2:02.4	all of that stuff really didn't start until the day after when we had all come to terms with exactly
2:07.2	what happened because literally 20 minutes after that, he was given a standing ovation by all the
2:12.1	phonies and Hollywood as he accepted his, what I believe is a well-deserved Academy Award
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