Jada Pinkett Smith has a new, problematic memoir titled Worthy. She shares snippets for fans to sink their teeth into. One such tidbit is that Tupac Shakur proposed to her while in prison.
Tupac and Jada’s Interesting Relationship
According to the book, the two became fast friends after they met as teenagers at the Baltimore School for the Arts in Maryland. They remained very close throughout their professional lives. The Girls Trip star reveals that Tupac called her his soulmate in the book.
She explains that soulmates don’t necessarily have to be connected through physical romance. The toxic ex-wife explained that she had “friendship-love chemistry” with the late rapper.
While discussing their relationship, Jada also revealed that Tupac once asked her for her hand in marriage during his prison stint. In a recent episode of her All The Smoke podcast, the actress shared this information with hosts Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. She said he asked me to marry him during the two to four weeks he was at Rikers Island.
Jada declined, stating that he was already engaged to Keisha Morris who moved to be closer to him in the prison and visited almost daily. Morris’ marriage to Shakur lasted less than ten months before they separated. Pinkett also read a passage from Pac’s response to Angela Ardis’ book Inside A Thug’s Heart.
The excerpt says that when Pac wrote back to her, he stated that Jada had asked him to marry her during his jail sentence in January of 1995, and he declined. Although the two never married, they did have a son together before he died in 1996.
The two later separated and divorced, but they have remained friends even after their split. Pinkett Smith also speaks on her (ex?) husband Will Smith’s public slapping of Chris Rock at the Oscars in 2021.
