Jada Pinkett Smith says kissing Tupac Shakur felt like kissing her own brother

17 October 2023 , 20:38

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Jada has been sharing details of her friendship with Tupac

Jada Pinkett Smith has admitted that she once shared a kiss with her close friend Tupac Shakur - but it was like kissing her sibling.

The Gotham star opened up about her bond with the legendary rapper in her new biography Worthy, which has already seen her make a series of bombshell revelations about her personal life - including her separation from husband Will Smith.

Jada, 52, attended the same school as Tupac and the pair became firm friends over the years, with the actress left devastated when he was murdered in 1996 at just 25 years old. She has denied several times that their relationship was ever romantic insisting they shared a purely platonic connection.

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Jada grew up in the same neighbourhood as Tupac (Getty Images)

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However, in Worthy she described the comical moment they kissed - before quickly realising there was no spark. She wrote: "I dared him to kiss me. Without hesitation, Pac grabbed me in his arms and did just that. The kiss lasted a few seconds before we both pulled away in mutual disgust. It felt wrong… It was literally like a sister and brother trying to make out."

Last week Jada confessed that Tupac once proposed to her when he was serving a jail term in the notorious Rikers prison. Tupac proposed to her in a letter he sent to her when he was imprisoned during the mid-1990s for groping a fan. She said: “Did Pac love me? Yeah he loved me! But I promise you, had we got married, he’d have divorced my a** as soon as he walked through them damn gates and got out. He just needed someone to do time with him."

Jada recently revealed her separation from husband Will (Matt Baron/BEI/REX/Shutterstock)

She also elaborated further on their friendship explaining: “We were both orphans in a certain manner, and we really tried to compensate for that with one another in our relationship and really take care of each other the best we knew how. We just had a deep loyalty. Pac’s whole thing was because I knew him when - when he wasn’t Tupac. The guy who was poor, the conditions that he lived in. And I was rocking with him anyway.”

Earlier this month Jada expressed her hope at finally finding peace with Tupac's death after Duane 'Keefe D' Davis was arrested and charged in relation to his murder. The Gotham star took to her Instagram page to tell fans how she was feeling following the breakthrough in the case which came 27 years after the murder took place. Jada wrote on her Instagram story: "Now I hope we can get some answers and have some closure. R.I.P. Pac."

On September 7, 1996, Tupac was in a BMW car that was driven by Marion "Suge" Knight, the founder of Death Row Records which was the record label Tupac was signed to. While the vehicle was at a standstill at a red light near the Las Vegas strip, a white Cadillac drove up next to the car and fired into the car. Tupac was shot multiple times - including two wounds to the chest and one to the leg - and succumbed to his injuries in hospital a week later on September 13.

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