Oprah Winfrey Ask's Will Smith About Open Relationship With Jada

So in a new interview with Oprah Winfrey to promote his memoir, Will, the actor answered questions about his nontraditional marriage. On AppleTV+'s The Oprah Conversation, Winfrey tried to get answers like when she asked how long they were separated, which they have both previously said they were. She said people "never actually understood" the duration and wanted to know if it was "months or years. "Ya know It's really funny We didn't We never actually like officially separated," Will, 53, finally replied, presumably meaning by legal definition. He pinpointed Jada's 40th birthday Sept. 2011 as when things came to a head, as he had spent three years planning an elaborate party and she hated the whole thing.  "We realized that it was a fantasy illusion that we could make each other happy," Will said. "We agreed that she had to make herself happy and I had to make myself happy. Then we were going to present ourselves back to the relationship already happy versus demanding that the other person fill our empty cup. He said, "We just decided, 'You have to figure out how to be happy." Though he admitted it was more "contentious" from his side, telling Jada: "'Go figure out if you can be happy and prove to me it's even possible.' I'm gonna do me and you do you." In his book, he wrote, "Our time apart helped us both to discover the power of loving in freedom. We're simultaneously, 100 percent bound together and 100 percent free. We agree that we were both imperfect people doing our best to how to figure out how to be in this world joyfully. Winfrey asked him to explained what "loving in freedom" meant and whether it means they're in an open relationship. "You love in freedom with everybody except your partner," he said, explaining how people tend to give room in their relationships with friends and their growing children, so it's not as demanding or restrictive as a marriage can be. With him and Jada, "It's friendship versus marital prison. Winfrey asked if that meant they can have other sexual partners, without bringing up Jada's relationship with Alsina and Will recently revealing infidelity. "So we talk about everything," he said. "I think the difficulty that people have and difficulty in discussing it is people only think in terms of sex. He then downplayed whatever side flings they may have, or had, going on. "People are trying to put something on it: 'Will and Jada — what they doing with other people?'" he said mocking the speculation. "Will and Jada ain't really doing too much of nuthin,'" he laughed. "Will and Jada are on a spiritual journey to cleanse the poisonous, unloving parts of our hearts. And we're doing it together in this lifetime no matter what.

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