Jada Pinkett Smith made headlines a few years ago after revealing her quiet affair with August Alsina during a red table talk with Will Smith. Recently, Alsina made a few cryptic comments that might imply he’s paying a hefty price for his and Pinkett Smith’s affair even years later. What happened to August Alsina? Alsina was once more known for his music than he was for any entanglements.
Some of the Def Jam artist’s most recognizable hits might include tracks like the 2014 single “No Love” and the 2016 song “Do You Mind”. After his rise to stardom, Alsina met and networked with many artists in the music industry, including Pinkett Smith’s son Jaden . Alsina confided that it was Jaden who first introduced him to the Gotham star.
A romance later bloomed between Alsina and Pinkett Smith that was more than just a fling. The young singer was adamant that his relationship with Pinkett Smith was unlike any he’d had before. “I devoted myself to it, I gave my full self to it — so much so to the point that I can die right now and be OK with knowing that I truly gave myself to somebody,” he said in a 2020 interview on Angela Yee .
He’d fallen for Pinkett Smith so hard that when the affair inevitably ended, Alsina found it difficult to recover. “So much so that being intertwined in that way — walking away from it butchered me. I’m shakin’ right now because it almost killed me.
Not almost; It did. It pushed me into being another person, my newer self. It.