47-year-old actor Will Smith opened up about his
20-year marriage to his wife, Jada Pinkett at the
Nov. 23 premiere of his new movie, ‘Concussion,’
where he said despite their refusal to split, their
relationship is both ‘grueling’ and ‘excruciating.’
He said this when he was interviewed by
Entertainment Tonight, when they asked him how
they keep their relationship so strong.
“We've been married 20 years and we've
been asking ourselves [what’s the secret to
marriage] and really at the end of the day
it’s just not quitting,” the 47-year-old actor
said of Pinkett Smith, who he first started
dating in 1995 and then married two years
later. “You can’t expect it to be easy, it’s
like our marriage was the most difficult,
grueling, excruciating thing that we have
ever taken on in our lives. And you know
were just not quitters.”
“If there is a secret I would say is that we
never went into working in our relationship,”
he continued. “We only ever worked on
ourselves individually, and then presented
ourselves to one another better than we
were previously.”