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What You Need To Know About Jada Pinkett Smith's 'Entanglement'

It’s worth prefacing this by appending it with a note: this is all so silly.

The affairs in the lives of the ultra-rich and famous, both in the romantic and the mundane sense of the word “affairs,” have never seemed less important than during a public health crisis. There are, to be frank, other things to worry about.

Watch: The Smiths open up about Jada’s “entanglement” with August Alsina. Story continues below.

Still, we’ve just witnessed the awkward birth of a hilarious meme. And if you’ve been spending any time on social media over the last couple of days, you might have caught wind of it unfolding between Jada Pinkett Smith, her husband, Will, and the American R&B singer August Alsina: suddenly, everyone is talking about “entanglements.”

And it’s not “entanglements” like fish getting caught up in nets, but “entanglements” like people getting caught up with each other. Married people getting caught up with single people. The menacing spectre of cheating — or something? Did Pinkett Smith have an affair with Alsina? How much did Will know about it? Did Will really give his “blessing” for their relationship?

The origins of the meme

Here’s the short of it: in a recent interview for his album press tour, Alsina, 27, confirmed rumours that he once had a romantic relationship with Jada, 48. “I totally gave myself to that relationship for years of my life, and I truly and really, really deeply loved and have a ton of love for her,” he told radio journalist Angela Yee.

He even got Will’s blessing, he alleged, before explaining that he doesn’t like to get involved in drama. (It makes him “nauseous.”) Drama ensued, and Pinkett Smith’s reps quickly decried the claims as “absolutely not true.” But then, on Thursday, the Smiths opted to go on Red Table Talk, Jada’s Facebook Watch talk show, to talk more openly about exactly what on earth was going on.

“We were over,” Jada explained to Will, and to us,...

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