Jada Pinkett Smith is convinced late rapper Tupac Shakur was her “soulmate”.
The actor, who has been married to Will Smith since 1997, was good friends with the hip-hop star prior to his death in a shooting in Las Vegas in 1996 and she’s now opened up about their special bond - but she’s insisted their relationship never turned romantic because there was “no chemistry” between them.
She told Rolling Out: “A soulmate, yeah. If there is such a thing as past lives, I definitely think Pac and I have travelled a few together. You know, in various forms.”
She added of the lack of romance: “It just wasn’t possible. There was no chemistry between us ... It’s that friendship-love chemistry, trust me.”
In a 2009 interview posted on YouTube.com, Pinkett Smith explained they first met at the Baltimore School for the Arts in Maryland in the 1980s and became close pals.