Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith have been separated since 2016.

Jada Pinkett Smith revealed the news in an exclusive clip from her upcoming NBC News primetime special with Hoda Kotb — which will air on Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. (8 p.m. ET) on NBC.

Pinkett Smith said she and Will Smith have been separated and have lived “completely separate lives” since 2016, nearly 20 years after they married in 1997.

The two are legally married, but they have no relationship, per TODAY.

“It was not a divorce on paper,” Kotb said.

“Right,” Pinkett Smith responds.

“…but it was a divorce,” Kotb continues.

“Divorce,” Pinkett Smith emphasizes.

The reason the status of the relationship wasn’t made public, per Pinkett Smith, is they weren’t “ready yet … Still trying to figure out between the two of us how to be in partnership … In regards to, how do we present that to people? We hadn’t figured that out.”

“Why it fractured … that — that’s a lot of things … By the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying. I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be,” Pinkett Smith.

Smith and Pinkett Smith addressed their marriage during a 2020 conversation on “Red Table Talk. In that interview, Pinkett Smith’s relationship – or the “entanglement” – became a national headline.

“I was done with your ass,” joked Smith in the episode.

“Yeah, you kicked me to the curb,” Pinkett Smith responded. “We broke up.”

Will Smith resigned from the Academy at the end of a headline-grabbing week that started at the Oscars when the actor slapped Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith.

The exchange began when Rock made a joke about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, saying, “Jada, I love you. ‘G.I. Jane 2,’ can’t wait to see it, all right?” The reference was of the 1997 film “G.I. Jane,” starring Demi Moore, who shaved her head to portray a fictional Navy Seal candidate.

Pinkett Smith revealed in 2018 that she was diagnosed with alopecia.

Smith walked onto the stage from his front-row seat and slapped Rock with an open palm. Smith walked back to his seat and shouted for Rock to “keep my wife’s name out of your (expletive) mouth.” Rock replied that he was just making a “G.I. Jane” joke. Smith yelled back at him a second time.

Smith later Sunday won the best actor award for his role in “King Richard.”

Rock declined to file charges when asked by police during the Oscars ceremony.

Smith apologized to Rock and the Academy in a social media post.

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