Yahoo News Jada Pinkett Smith opens up about her drug dealer past
Jada Pinkett Smith has opened up about the early days of her relationship with late rapper Tupac Shakur, admitting she was dealing drugs when the pair first met in high school in Baltimore.
Speaking on SiriusXM's Sway in the Morning on Wednesday (July 19), the actress made the revelation while discussing her friendship with Tupac, and added that their relationship was built on survival.
"It's kind of hard because I haven't really told the whole story," Jada said after being asked for 'clarity' on her and Tupac's relationship. "One of the things that's very interesting that I've never really said before is that when I first met Pac, I was a drug dealer.
"That's how we started. Then as I was coming out, something very bad happened to me. As I was coming out of the life, he was going more into the life."
She continued: "Pac and I's relationship was about survival. That's how it started. I know that most people want to always connect it in this romance thing and that's just because they don't have the story.
"It was based in survival, how we held each other down and when you have somebody that has your back when you feel like you're nothing, that's everything.
"There's a lot of components to our story that we've never shared for a very specific reason. I just decided that this one little piece was important to share finally because it gives more insight to who we were. It was about survival and it's always been about survival between us."
You can watch Jada's response from about 16:45 in the video below:
Jada's insights follow the premiere of Tupac biopic All Eyez on Me, in which Jada is played by Vampire Diaries star Kat Graham.
The actress shared her angry response to the film across a series of tweets back in June, calling it "deeply hurtful".
"Forgive me... my relationship to Pac is too precious to me for the scenes in All Eyez On Me to stand as truth," she wrote. "The reimagining of my relationship to Pac has been deeply hurtful."
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