Will Smith were given candid about his “one and only date” with Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa.
The “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” alum admitted he used to be “terrified” when he took Sandra “Pepa” Denton out within the overdue ’80s in an episode of his “Class of ’88” podcast previous this yr, in step with Folks.
All through the feminine rap duo’s look at the display, Smith defined that he have been smitten with Denton for years, however she used to be all the time in a dating with any individual else.
“Now, she was single,” he recalled. “We was both going to be in LA at the same time, so I’mma shoot my shot.”
“This girl was special and I wanted to impress her, so I rented a white Mercedes convertible just because I needed to floss a little bit,” he persevered.
“My plan was then to take her around Hollywood Hills, drive up Mulholland and all that, watch the sunset.”
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The Oscar winner, now 55, confessed that his self belief used to be simply a facade to hide up his worry.
“I always faked like I had game. I didn’t really have game,” he mentioned. “I was always in this full-on, trying to give the wildest flavor of having game, but that might have been the most terrified I had ever been trying to shoot my shot with Pepa. And I didn’t believe I had a real shot.”
Denton, 57, additionally shared her point of view at the date, recalling the “Men in Black” big name’s come across with a homeless guy.
“We were out and we saw a homeless person and you gave the homeless person $100,” she mentioned in a podcast clip posted to Instagram. “It was so nice. And then we went to the Hollywood sign.”
Then again, Smith’s reminiscence of that second used to be much less delightful as he admitted that he feared for his existence.
“My concern was that I was going to get killed,” he mentioned. “That was my concern when I was trying to spit my game, but I ain’t really have nothing.”
In a while after that night time, the pair’s romance fizzled out however they “always really got along.”
The actor went directly to marry Jada Pinkett Smith in 1997, whilst Denton used to be in short wed to rapper Treach from 1999 to 2001.