Jada Pinkett Smith's drug dealing past

In a new interview explaining her relationship with the late Tupac, actress Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed she was once a drug dealer.

The 45-year-old wife of Will Smith opens up to SiriusXM’s Sway in The Morning about her connection with the singer, saying: "It’s kind of hard because I haven’t really told the whole story. 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".

"That’s how we started,” she continued, adding, “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".

Tupac died back in 1996, a year before Jada got married to actor Will.

Jada's statements come after she recently complained about the way her relationship with Tupac was portrayed in the biopic Tupac, All Eyez On Me.

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Taking to social media last month, she wrote: "Forgive me… my relationship to Pac is too precious to me for the scenes in All Eyez On Me to stand as truth".

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