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American singer and actress, Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed that she met late best friend Tupac Shakur when she was a drug dealer.
The beautiful actress said she thought it was necessary to disclose this to clear this on air, people’s perception of her relationship with the late rapper.
In an interview, Pinkett said she was “coming out of that life” and Tupac was “getting more into the life.”
In her words:”It’s kinda hard because I haven’t really told the whole story. One of the things that are very interesting that I’ve never really said before is that when I first met Pac, when we first met, I was a drug dealer. Yes.
“There was a point in which we met and then we kind of were going our separate ways. And I just felt like, ‘OK God, one day you’re going to do for Pac what you did for me, which is you saved me. And that just never happened for him.
” And so that is something that I am constantly having to confront,” she said. “I know that most people wanna always connect us in this romance thing, but that’s just because they don’t have the story.
” But it was based on survival, how we held each other down, you know what I’m saying? And when we have somebody that has your back when you feel like you’re nothing, that’s everything”.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Jada Koren Pinkett was named after her mother’s favourite soap-opera actress, Jada Rowland. Pinkett Smith is of African American and West Indian (from Jamaica) descent.Her parents are Adrienne Banfield-Jones, the head nurse of an inner-city clinic in Baltimore, and Robsol Pinkett, Jr., who ran a construction company. Banfield-Jones became pregnant in high school; the couple married but divorced after several months.
Banfield-Jones raised Pinkett with the help of her own mother, Marion Martin Banfielda daughter of 2 Jamaican immigrants and also a social worker.
She noticed her granddaughter’s passion for the performing arts and enrolled her in piano, tap dance, and ballet lessons.She has a younger brother, actor/writer Caleeb Pinkett.