When Jada Pinkett Smith sat down at that Red Table in 2020 and confirmed her relationship with singer August Alsina, the world watched what appeared to be a moment of radical honesty from one of Hollywood’s most scrutinised couples. It turns out there was a lot more calculation behind that moment than anyone knew.

Jada is now revealing, while promoting her new memoir “I am, You are, We are, Worthy!”, that her decision to publicly own the entanglement narrative was a deliberate one, made not out of a burning desire to be transparent, but to protect Will Smith and draw a line under a situation that was consuming their family.

She said it plainly. “So if I got to look like the adulterous wife to make sure you’re good, I’m gonna do it.” That single sentence reframes everything about how that Red Table Talk has been understood since it aired.

In her telling, she made a conscious choice to absorb the public’s judgment and become the villain of the story if that was what it took to get Will through the moment and get the whole thing behind them. “Okay, I’m the bad guy. I’m the worst. Great. Let’s be done with it. I wanted it done. Let’s be done. And let’s move on,” she said, capturing the exhaustion of someone who had simply decided that ending the conversation mattered more than how she came out of it.

What she also shared is something that speaks to a deeper tension she had been carrying within the relationship for years, the difficulty of loving someone fully without losing herself in the process. “I learned how to love myself and not leave Will on the side of the road. And I hadn’t learned how to love Will and not leave myself on the side of the road,” she said. It is the kind of line that takes a moment to sit with, because it describes something a lot of people in long, complicated relationships will recognise even if they have never had the words for it.

The Red Table Talk episode came in 2020, two years before the Oscars night that put the Smith family back at the centre of global conversation when Will walked onto the stage and slapped comedian Chris Rock in front of a worldwide audience. Looking at the full timeline now, with this new context from Jada, those two years between the entanglement confession and the Oscars slap take on a different weight.

Jada says she does not look back on any of it as purely negative. She frames the conversations they had publicly and privately as part of a longer journey toward understanding how to be genuine partners to each other without one of them always being the one left behind. Whether the public is ready to receive this new version of the story after everything that has happened is another question entirely.

But she is telling it anyway.

Jada Pinkett Smith says she admitted to cheating on Will Smith to protect his ego, claiming she could’ve taken it to the grave but chose to come clean to protect her family and put her own happiness aside to support his 😳🤔 pic.twitter.com/Bi2PKsGSSJ

— Dubs⛧ (@onlydubsX) April 14, 2026

Nobody saw the wedding coming. Even fewer people expected it to fall apart this fast.
Angel Smith, the BBNaija star who announced her marriage to her female partner Tumininu in an all-black ceremony in the United States on March 27, 2026, is now at the centre of one of the messiest celebrity marriage meltdowns Nigerian social media has seen in a long time. And the thing is, it has not even been two weeks.

Tumininu opened the floodgates on Snapchat, and once she started talking, she did not stop. Her biggest claim, the one that has people’s jaws on the floor, is that Angel’s own mother lobbied repeatedly for the wedding to happen. Not just once. Several times. She says she knows exactly why. “Them wan use me for paper, I japa,” she wrote, alleging that the family’s real intention was to secure immigration papers through the marriage and that she figured it out before they could pull it off.

She named friends who had encouraged her to go through with the wedding and threatened to see them all in court. “Soji, Chinwe, Crystal, Segun, all of you wey beg me to continue this shit. All of us go to court to explain ourselves,” she wrote.

Then came the receipts, or at least what she is calling receipts.

Screenshots of private conversations between the two began making rounds online. In one exchange, Angel herself appeared to have doubts about the marriage long before things went sideways publicly. She reportedly brought up concerns about Tumininu’s finances, said she felt no real connection, and flagged issues she was observing around her partner. Tumininu, in the same thread, asked her plainly if she wanted a divorce and brought up the fact that there was no intimacy between them. She also said she sold her chains to buy Angel a car. Angel’s response, according to the screenshots, was to ask whether she had ever asked for a car in the first place.

It gets messier. Tumininu has accused Angel of cheating on her with another woman she allegedly met on Hinge after arriving in the US. She claims she spent over $100,000 on Angel since she got to America, including $50,000 on her birthday alone. At one point she posted telling Angel’s mother to go and look for her daughter at her new girlfriend’s house.

None of this was visible when Angel shared clips of herself getting glammed up for the wedding on Snapchat just days earlier. The ceremony was intimate, the aesthetic was deliberate, all-black outfits for every guest, a detail that had caused its own minor controversy when the invitation circulated online. Fans pushed back. Angel pushed back harder. When someone asked why she could not find a man to marry, she said no man was good enough. She was married to a woman within days.

The first sign that something was wrong came almost immediately after the wedding when a video surfaced of Tumininu with another woman, clearly having a good time. Angel responded on Instagram the way she usually responds to things that bother her, obliquely and with attitude, posting cryptic messages that suggested she was unbothered and possibly available again.

Tumininu posted a meme about losing people to prove loyalty to someone who turned out to be disloyal. Neither of them said anything directly. They did not need to.

What is unfolding now is the direct version of that same conversation, and it is significantly louder. A marriage that barely had time to find its footing is crumbling in public, one Snapchat post at a time, and neither woman seems particularly interested in keeping the details behind closed doors.

Davido’s logistics manager and media aide, Israel DMW, has stirred conversation online after sharing his thoughts on Nigerians who travel abroad to marry foreign partners, and his position is more nuanced than the average take on the subject.

In a post shared on his Instagram page, accompanied by photos of himself at the Transcorp Hilton Abuja dressed in an all-white agbada, Israel made clear that he has no problem with interracial or international marriages in principle. His concern lies elsewhere. “Going to abroad, to marry an Oyinbo woman or man isn’t the issue at all. Bringing back the children home is the main problem. Blacks still remain best,” he wrote.

The post touched on something that resonates with a good number of Nigerians, particularly those who have watched family members or friends build lives abroad, marry foreign partners, and raise children who grow up with little to no connection to their Nigerian roots. For Israel, that disconnect appears to be the real cost worth talking about.

The comment comes from a man who has had his own complicated relationship with marriage. Israel was previously married to Edo-based influencer Sheila Courage, but the union collapsed in under a year amid allegations of domestic violence and what both parties described very differently. Israel denied any physical assault and claimed he had significantly invested in Sheila’s life during their time together, only for her to attempt to reshape him to meet her own expectations and look down on him financially. Sheila, for her part, dismissed his account entirely, saying he used his generosity as a cover for his shortcomings.

The fallout was very public. Israel issued warnings to men to stay clear of his estranged wife. He shared a video of her out with friends and told the public he had moved on. He later sat down with media personality Daddy Freeze and said divorce should hurt, and that his ex was using theirs as a platform for self-promotion. He also took a swipe at her for dispensing relationship advice after their failed marriage.

Away from the drama, Israel has dropped hints that he may be open to love again. At the 88th birthday dinner of billionaire TY Danjuma last year, he posted a photo alongside an unidentified woman in a green gown, deliberately keeping her face out of frame, giving his followers just enough to speculate about.

For now though, it is his views on transnational marriages and raising children far from home that have people talking.