had been secretly separated for six years at the time of Smith’s infamous 2022 Oscars slap – in which he smacked Chris Rock on live TV, for making a joke about Jada’s hair. The audio was cut and censored for several seconds as Smith returned to his seat. But captions and lipreading by viewers revealed his message to Rock: “Keep my wife’s name out of your f–king mouth.”But now, Jada has revealed that she was only “his wife” on paper, and they were living separate lives since 2016.