During the April 29 episode of her Facebook Watch series Red Table Talk, which focused on the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on relationships, Pinkett Smith opened up about
to Will Smith.
"I gotta be honest. I think one of the things that I’ve realized is that I don’t know Will at all," she said.
She elaborated, "I feel like there’s a
layer that you get to, life gets busy and you create these stories in
your head and then you hold onto these stories and that is your idea of
your partner, that’s not who your partner is."
Pinkett Smith said that she's now "going
through the process of having to dissolve all of those stories and all
the ideas of Will" that she has built in order to better understand him.
"This is intimacy," the actress said. "Just being able to get to who our loved ones are beyond that which we have perceived."
"The thing that Will and I are learning to
do is be friends," she said, adding that for the moment, "Will and I are
in the process of him taking the time to learn to love himself, me
taking the time to learn to love myself and us building a friendship
along the way.”
Hough and the former ice hockey player have been riding out the pandemic separately,
to PEOPLE in mid-April. "They are still together, but just not
quarantined in the same place. Their relationship has always been like
this, though — they like to do their own thing," the insider added.
The two-time
Dancing with the Stars champion told
Oprah Magazine’s Arianna Davis that she’s “been on [her] own” in the pair’s Los Angeles home, while Laich is
“doing lots of yard work,” she said. “So we’re kind of doing our
separate things right now. But it’s really been a magical time.”
Speaking over FaceTime with
Extra on
March 20, Hough said that she expected a lot of healing and growth
would take place during this time spent at home — and alluded to
addressing the ups and downs of her own two-year marriage.
“I think the best part about this … this is
gonna be a time for a lot of healing, whether it’s personally, in
relationships and friendships and families,” she said. “The universe was
just like, ‘Let’s put people at home and figure their s— out.’ … And
I’m not just saying Brooks and I, I’m saying life in general and this is
the time to do that.”
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