Will Smith Opens Up About ‘Raging Jealousy’ He Had Over Jada’s Friendship With Tupac

In his new memoir Will, actor Will Smith gets honest about his marriage with Jada Pinkett Smith. 

In the book, he reveals that he struggled with Jada’s close relationship with Tupac in the beginning. Smith admits that he was “tortured by their connection” and felt “raging jealousy.”

“Though they were never intimate, their love for each other is legendary — they define ‘ride or die,’” Smith wrote. “In the beginning of our relationship, my mind was tortured by their connection. He was ‘PAC and I was me.”

As the I Am Legend actor and Jada’s relationship progressed, she spent less time with Tupac. Smith considered that a sort of “victory.”

“If she chose me over Tupac, there was no way I could be a coward,” Smith wrote in the book. “I have rarely felt more validated. I was in a room with Tupac on multiple occasions, but I never spoke to him. The way Jada loved ‘Pac rendered me incapable of being friends with him. I was too immature.”

Jada and Tupac met each other when they were students at the Baltimore School for the Arts. The two remained close friends.