Jada Pinkett Smith says she was nearly Mrs. Tupac Shakur. In a recent podcast, Jada revealed that the late rapper proposed to her when he was locked up in New York’s Rikers Island jail.
Tupac was in Rikers Island on sex abuse charges in 1995. He was transferred to Clinton Correctional Facility in March 1995.
Before he moved, Jada says Tupac proposed to her in jail. She said he was “in bad shape” emotionally, and she believes he would have divorced her as soon as he was released from prison.
“Seeing him there, the condition that he was in and having to leave him there,” Jada said. “He was in bad shape. And so, when he asked me to get married, he was at Rikers.”
She continued: “I knew at that time that he needed somebody to do time with him, which I was gonna do anyway. He didn’t have to marry me to do that. I’m here. He needed a rock. Because of our friendship and everything we had been through together, he just wanted to feel that solidified foundation.”
In a separate interview to promote her book, Worthy, Jada called Tupac her “soulmate.”
“There is all kinds of definitions of soulmates,” she said. “If there is such a thing as past lives I definitely think ‘Pac and I have traveled a few together.”
Watch the interview below.
Jada Pinkett Smith Reveals Tupac Asked Her to Marry Him.
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