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Jada Pinkett Smith first met Will Smith when she was 20 years old and he flew out to the set of her film The Inkwell to personally offer her a role on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
She turned it down, she writes, because her movie career was taking off and she didn't want to do TV.
He was at her 21st birthday party and she felt a connection during a later group hangout (and she did appear on Fresh Prince)—but he was married.
Pinkett Smith recalls Smith calling her less than a week after his first wife, Sheree Zampino, filed for divorce in February 1995. He asked if she was seeing anyone, she said no and she writes that his reply was, "Good. You're seeing me now."
And she loved the boldness.
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