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She’s already been wildly vocal with her opinion on the new Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez On Me and now during an interview with SiriusXM’s Sway In The Morning, Jada Pinkett Smith has admitted she was a drug dealer when she first met the late rapper.
Discussing her previous comments (“The reimagining of my relationship to Pac has been deeply hurtful”), the actress said it was difficult for her to make her point as the whole story hadn’t ever been told. “One of the things that’s very interesting that I’ve never really said before is that when I first met Pac, I was a drug dealer,” she said.
“That’s how we started. Then as I was coming out, something very bad happened to me. As I was coming out of the life, he was coming more into the life. Pac and I’s relationship was about survival.”
Smith and Shakur met in college in the 1980s in Maryland and became best friends. She says the relationship didn’t turn romantic but rather was platonic. Tupac died in 1996 after being gunned down.
“That’s how it started. I know that most people want to always connect it in this romance thing and that’s just because they don’t have the story,” she continued. “It was based on survival, how we held each other down and when you have somebody that has your back when you feel like you’re nothing, that’s everything.
“There’s a lot of components to our story that we’ve never shared for a very specific reason. I just decided that this one little piece was important to share finally because it gives more insight to who we were. It was about survival and it’s always been about survival between us.”
