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But then Kotb finishes her sentence: …
Except youre not sometimes.
To which Pinkett-Smith smiles and nods almost more enthusiastically.
And he profusely apologized and that was that, Pinkett-Smith writes.
Shes used similarly obscure language when addressing the nature of her open-or-not-open relationship with Smith in the past.
Her cheating scandal was framed as an entanglement.
When sheaddressedthe seemingly open nature of their relationship,she wrote: Open marriage?
Pinkett-Smith doubled down on her not-open-marriage stance with a series of rhetorical questions.
Do we believe loving someone means owning them?
Do we believe that ownership is the reason someone should behave?
But of course, Pinkett-Smith is honest (or is she?)
about her own lack of truthfulness, and perhaps we should have been more distrusting from the start.
This fall, with deep humility and respect, I will take back my narrative.
Falsehoods, untrue narratives, misunderstandings all at her own hand.
But Pinkett-Smith isnt claiming to come clean either.
Shes just taking back her narrative.
Shes centering herself; that doesnt mean shes centering the truth.
A narrative isnt, in and of itself, real; its PR, like everything else.
How is she, as Kotb says, considered a straight shooter by any stretch of the imagination?
But she didnt call the bookHonestyfor a reason.
