Living with your partner’s ex is indeed an unpalatable situation. However, Jada Pinkett Smith is accustomed to this situation, as after marrying Will Smith, the couple included Smith’s ex-wife in their family.
The initial days of living with Smith’s ex-wife were quite difficult. Previously, the actress invited Sheree Zampino on her talk show and recalled the early days when she crossed her limits. However, both women later revealed they have no bad blood for each other.
Jada Pinkett Smith admitted to overstepping her limits with Sheree Zampino
Jada Pinkett Smith is married to Oscar-winning actor Will Smith. However, Pinkett Smith isn’t his first wife. Before marrying the Collateral actress, Smith was married to Sheree Zampino, with whom he shares a son, Trey Smith. After separating from Zampino in 1995, Smith tied the knot with Pinkett.
However, he was not completely cut off from his ex-wife, as the former couple decided to co-parent their first child together. Accepting her husband’s ex-wife in the family must have been difficult for Pinkett, but with time she adapted herself to this. However, there was a time when the actress did things that she regretted later.
Earlier, the actress invited her husband’s ex-wife on her talk show, Red Table Talk, where both the ladies recalled the initial days of bearing each other. Pinkett admitted that there was a time when she overstepped her boundaries. She said,
“I can remember some times that I really crossed the line.” She recalled the moment when she felt that she overreacted to the situation. She said, “I can remember some times that I really crossed the line.”
The actress continued by clarifying that the whole situation was so twisted that everything ended up being a mess. On this, Zampino said,
“It was out of line but you didn’t mean any harm.”
However, Pinkett regretted her reaction to the situation, but now, with time, she has learned to respect boundaries.
Jada Pinkett Smith’s relationship with her husband’s ex-wife
Both Jada Pinkett Smith and Sheree Zampino have come a long way, and they live as a happy family. Zampino has often appreciated Pinkett for being a good stepmother to her son. During the same talk show, Zampino said,
“Coming into this, doing the blended thing, the only requirement was that you treated my son well. You did that and your heart was always right towards him, wanting the best for him.”
Will Smith married Jada Pinkett Smith in 1997.
Source: Showbiz Cheatsheet
