Will Smith’s kids wish Jada Pinkett Smith had respected family’s privacy more, contrary to what she says: report

Willow Smith and Jaden Smith have never been shy about basking in the glow of their parents’ fame, especially if it has helped advance their own careers as actors, musicians and influencers.

But there’s apparently a limit to how much attention the siblings can tolerate for their family, and they have reportedly reached that as their mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, continues to drop bombshell revelations about her marriage to their father, Will Smith, while promoting her new memoir, “Worthy.”

The siblings especially “feel bad” for their father, according to a report in Entertainment Tonight. On Pinkett Smith’s press tour to promote the book, which publishes Tuesday, she has continued to share some pretty shocking details about her personal life with the once-beloved movie star — most notably that she and the “King Richard” actor separated in 2016 and stopped calling each other “husband” and “wife.”

Willow Smith and Jaden Smith “feel bad for their dad with all the recent headlines about their parents,” a source told Entertainment Tonight. 

“They know he has been going through a lot lately, and this isn’t helping,” the source said of the Smith kids, who also include Trey Smith, whom Will shares with his ex-wife, Sheree Zampino. The source probably is referring to the fact their father blew up his career and reputation when he rushed onstage at the Academy Awards in 2022 and slapped Chris Rock over a joke the comedian made that inadvertently referred to Pinkett Smith’s alopecia, a hair-loss condition.

“They wish some of their family’s private matters remained private,” the ET source said.

Among the many tidbits Pinkett Smith shared in her book was that Rock had once asked her out on a date when he heard rumors that she and Smith were getting a divorce. At the time, she said, she corrected Rock and told him, “Those are just rumors.” Rock, in turn, apologized. Another tidbit Pinkett Smith shared in an interview was that her real “soulmate” in life wasn’t Smith, but the late rapper Tupac Shakur, a high school friend from Baltimore.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Jada Pinkett Smith has a different impression of how her children view her book. She told InStyle magazine Tuesday that she made sure her children knew what private information she was going to reveal, especially information “about them specifically,” Page Six reported.

Pinkett Smith told InStyle that Willow Smith, 22, a singer and her co-host on her since-canceled Red Table Talk Facebook show, is an “avid reader.” Willow Smith is “super excited” about the book and “devoured a huge part of (the) book before it was even edited,” Pinkett Smith said.

“She loved it. She couldn’t wait,” Jada Pinkett Smith said, according to Page Six. “She [was] like, ‘Mom, I’m taking this copy. I got to finish my read.’”

However, Pinkett Smith acknowledged that her daughter’s siblings have yet to read the book.

“”The boys, I just told them what was in it,” Jada said about Jaden, 25, and her 30-year-old stepson Trey.

Meanwhile, Will Smith is “trying not to let any outside noise impact him,” the Entertainment Tonight source said, presumably referring to all the publicity surrounding the book. He’s been “trying to stay busy and has been hanging out with his good friends and his kids.”

“Will loves Jada and feels like he has always had her back and always will,” the Entertainment Tonight source said. “He has been trying to be supportive, while also taking care of himself.”