- Will Smith stated that he would like to be with his girlfriend. “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” costar Karyn Parsons.
- Smith said that he “tried to explain that we were not really cousins so it would be fine if we dated.”
- Parsons replied that he was sorry. “smart enough to tell me ‘hell no.'”
Will Smith indicated that he was open to dating his “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”Karyn Parsons was Karyn’s costar but she turned him down.
In hisself-titled memoirSmith opened up about his experiences on the hit sitcom of the ’90s, where he made his acting debut.
“Fresh Prince” centered on Smith’s character having a fish-out-of-water experience as he left his hometown of West Philadelphia to live with his Uncle Phil (James Avery), Aunt Viv (Janet Hubert), and three cousins named Hilary Banks (Parsons), Carlton Banks (Alfonso Ribeiro), and Ashley Banks (Tatyana Ali) in their lavish Bel-Air mansion.
Smith described Parsons in this way: “the least experienced next to me”She said she believed it. “beat out a slew of Hollywood big hitters to win her role.”Parsons, according to the actor, knew it was in their best interest to keep their profession.
“Was smart enough to tell me ‘hell no’ when I tried to explain that we were not really cousins so it would be fine if we dated. (‘I swear it won’t mess up our working relationship.’ She knew better than that — good call KP),”Smith.
Smith eventually met Sheree Zampino during a taping. “A Different World”Three months later, she married her on a nearby property. Trey Smith was their first and only child.
Smith and Zampino divorced in 1995. Jada Pinkett Smith was the first person he saw leaving a casting agency. “Fresh Prince.”
They were married on December 31, 1997, and had two children: Jaden Smith (born July 1998) and Willow Smith (born October 2000).