How well does Sheree Zampino, the mother of Will Smith's oldest son, get along with his
current wife, Jada Pinkett Smith?
And how did Zampino feel about the slap?
Keep watching for what we know.
The day Will Smith met his first wife, Sheree Zampino, he actually intended to meet the
woman who would become his second wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith.
In an interview with "Hollywood Unlocked," Zampino revealed that it all went down during
a taping of Jada's sitcom "A Different World."
Will had watched some of the series, and Jada caught his eye.
He went to the set hoping to meet her through then-writer Orlando Jones.
Zampino also happened to be on set, visiting a friend.
Will ended up asking Zampino's friend for her number.
"I went to 'Different World' to meet Jada and met Sheree and ended up marrying Sheree
and having Trey with Sheree."
Will Smith has definitely had some difficulties in his life, but according to him, the worst
thing he has ever experienced was his divorce from Sheree Zampino.
At the time, eldest son Trey Smith was just two years old.
Will was experiencing soaring Hollywood success and had been married to Zampino for around
three years.
Zampino said on Facebook in 2016,
"Will was, you know, becoming bigger and bigger with his career.
I'm becoming smaller and smaller and smaller.
I just…I didn't have the tools."
In the Father's Day 2020 episode of "Red Table Talk," Will revealed,
"Divorce was the worst thing in my adult life.
Divorce was the ultimate failure for me."
But Smith managed to maintain a strong relationship with his first wife.
The pair even sometimes vacations together without Jada.
Sheree Zampino didn't always get along with Jada Pinkett Smith.
The difficulties began as soon as Will and Jada started dating.
Zampino decided that she didn't want Jada to meet her then-three-year-old son.
In an episode of VH1's "Hollywood Exes," Zampino opened up about the first time Trey was set
to meet his future stepmother.
She said,
"I wasn't happy.
I wasn't happy because I didn't like his choice.
[...] But I wouldn't have liked anybody at that point."
Despite Zampino's reservations, Trey actually had a great time with Jada and wanted to buy
her a present.
Zampino explained that she couldn't get past it just yet:
"I could not bring myself to buy her anything so I regifted something that was brand new.
It was a candle or something.
I put it in a bag, and I got a card."
The two women recalled their co-parenting drama on the premiere episode of "Red Table
Talk."
Zampino remembered another situation after Will and Jada got married in which she called
the Smith house wanting to speak to her son, Trey Smith.
She had to talk to Jada first, and things got heated.
"So you basically let me know, 'I don't really appreciate your tone.'
[...] And you hung up on me."
Zampino said she called back, and things didn't go any better on the follow-up call.
Yet Zampino gave credit where it was due, praising Jada for being the one to make amends.
She said Jada apologized and owned the situation.
In addition to being a mom, Sheree Zampino is also an entrepreneur.
She has her own boutique, from which she sells jewelry, apparel, accessories, footwear, and
more.
According to her bio on the store's website, Zampino studied at both the Fashion Institute
of Technology in New York and the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los
Angeles.
Her merchandise is actually affordable, too.
In 2006, she also created a moisturizer called Whoop Ash.
According to Essence, she's had stars such as Holly Robinson-Peete, Tisha Campbell-Martin,
and Shaun Robinson as customers.
Zampino has also worked in media.
She starred on the VH1 reality series "Hollywood Exes," where she befriended other celeb ex-wives,
like Shanna Moakler, Nicole Murphy, and more.
Zampino also hosted Black Hollywood Live's "Eat.
Pray.
Live."
podcast.
Sheree Zampino went on to tie the knot again, to NFL star Terrell Fletcher.
They're divorced now, but while they were still married, they were photographed at a
football game holding a young girl.
This led to blogs and even a Will Smith biography declaring that the two had a daughter named
Jodie.
Since Zampino often shares photos of Trey on Instagram, she began receiving angry messages
from fans who wondered why her assumed daughter was absent from her social media posts.
Zampino recalled on the "Splitting Upward" podcast,
"I'd get hate mail, because people are like, 'You never post a picture of your daughter!'"
She finally put the rumors to rest, explaining that her son Trey and Joshua Woods, the older
brother of former Kardashian-Jenner pal Jordyn Woods, were best friends.
The families were together at the game when the snapshot was taken.
The girl she was holding was Jodie Woods, Joshua and Jordyn's little sister.
It wasn't her daughter at all.
Will Smith's infamous 2022 Oscars slap landed him a mountain of criticism.
A source told Us Weekly that even Will and Jada themselves agreed that Will "overreacted."
So what did Will's ex, Sheree Zampino, think?
In an interview with Extra, Bravo's Kyle Richards revealed that she was sitting next to Zampino
at the 2022 Elton John Aids Foundation Oscar Party when Will stood up from his seat and
clocked Rock for making a joke about Jada's alopecia.
Both the women were apparently "shocked" about what went down, and Richards claimed that
Zampino left to spend time with Will and the rest of their family.
Zampino later posted an Instagram Story celebrating Will's Best Actor Oscar win for his role in
"King Richard."
She wrote,
"You are more than deserving."
Sheree Zampino is right at home on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills."
The star first appeared in a single episode in 2014 before returning for another episode
in 2020.
Her appearances were brief, but they foreshadowed her future with the series.
E! News broke the story that she officially joined the cast for Season 12 in 2022.
Though she isn't quite a full-time housewife, she does make regular appearances throughout
the season.
And she's sharing the stage with another one of Will Smith's exes, Garcelle Beauvais.
According to MadameNoire, Beauvais dated Will after his divorce from Zampino and before
his marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith.
From what it sounds like, it was pretty brief.
During Zampino's "RHOBH" appearance in 2020, she and Beauvais bonded over their painful
divorces.
They even had a laugh about dating the same man.
"So we're the trouble now!"
"We're the trouble!
We're the trouble!"
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