Will Smith’s Sex Life Before Meeting Jada Pinkett Smith Took a Physical Toll On His Body

Will Smith has made a name for himself over the years as an actor and rapper. His marriage to fellow actor Jada Pinkett Smith has been the subject of scrutiny several times, and both of their sex lives have made headlines.

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s unique marital arrangement

In recent years, both Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have been honest about having an open marriage. Smith spoke about it in a September 2021 interview with GQ.

“Jada never believed in conventional marriage,” he said. “There were significant endless discussions about, what is relational perfection? What is the perfect way to interact as a couple? And for the large part of our relationship, monogamy was what we chose, not thinking of monogamy as the only relational perfection.”

“We have given each other trust and freedom, with the belief that everybody has to find their own way,” he added. “And marriage for us can’t be a prison. And I don’t suggest our road for anybody. I don’t suggest this road for anybody. But the experiences that the freedoms that we’ve given one another and the unconditional support, to me, is the highest definition of love.”

Will Smith had an active sex life as a teenager

In his memoir Will, released in November 2021, the longtime actor opened up about several parts of his life, including his marriage and sex life. At one point, he reminisced on being 16 years old and dealing with his first heartbreak.

He was dating a girl named Melanie at the time, who herself was living through a difficult situation as her mother was imprisoned for killing her father. Melanie was later invited to live with Smith and his family and he held her on a pedestal. But she eventually cheated on him, and Smith was so heartbroken, he began having sex with as many women as he could.

“I desperately need relief but as there is no pill for heartbreak, I resorted to the homeopathic remedies of shopping and rampant sexual intercourse,” he wrote. “Up until this point in my life, I had only had sex with one woman other than Melanie, but over the next few months, I went full ghetto hyena.”

Smith only stopped his sexcapades when they began to take a toll on his body.

“I had sex with so many women, and it was so constitutionally disagreeable to the core of my being, that I developed a psychosomatic reaction to having an orgasm,” he admitted. “It would literally make me gag and sometimes even vomit… In every case, though, I hoped to God this beautiful stranger would be ‘the one’ who would love me, who would make this pain go away, but invariably, there I was, retching and wretched. And the look in the eyes of the women even further deepened my agony.”

Will Smith was jealous of Jada Pinkett Smith and Tupac Shakur’s friendship

Jada Pinkett Smith first became close with legendary rapper Tupac Shakur at Baltimore School For the Arts in the 1980s. So when Smith was married to his wife in the 1990s, he quickly grew jealous of their relationship.

“Though they were never intimate, their love for each other is legendary – they defined ‘ride or die,’” Smith wrote in the book. “In the beginning of our relationship, my mind was tortured by their connection. He was Pac! And I was me.”

“Pac was like Harry [Smith’s younger brother] — he triggered the perception of myself as a coward,” Smith continued. “I hated that I wasn’t what he was in the world, and I suffered a raging jealousy: I wanted Jada to look at me like that.”

“If she chose me over Tupac, there was no way I could be a coward,” he concluded. “I have rarely felt more validated.”