Will Smith was “terrified” throughout a date with Salt-N-Pepa star Sandra “Pepa” Denton.
The Males in Black star requested the musician out in early 1988. He pulled out all of the stops to impress her by renting a white Mercedes convertible, planning a drive round Los Angeles and ending with a cease within the Hollywood Hills to look at the sundown.
Nevertheless, Smith admits nerves virtually received the higher of him.
“[It was] someday in early ‘88 … I all the time had a factor for Sandy, however she was all the time courting any individual else,” he defined throughout an look on his “Class of ‘88” podcast alongside Salt-N-Pepa. “Now she was single. We have been each going to be in L.A. on the identical time, so I’mma shoot my shot. … This woman was particular and I wished to impress her, so I rented a white Mercedes convertible simply because I wanted to floss a bit bit. My plan was then to take her round Hollywood Hills, drive up Mulholland and watch the sundown.”
Nevertheless, Denton mentioned there was one a part of the date that impressed her essentially the most: she was happy to see Smith present kindness to a homeless individual.
“I do know precisely what occurred,” she defined. “We have been out and we noticed a homeless individual, and also you gave the homeless individual $100. I used to be, like, OK — and it was so good. After which we went to the Hollywood signal.”
“My concern was that I used to be going to get killed,” Smith added. “That was my concern once I was attempting to spit my sport, however I ain’t actually don’t have anything … I all the time faked like I had sport. I didn’t actually have sport. I used to be all the time on this full-on, attempting to present the wildest taste of getting sport. However which may have been essentially the most terrified I had ever been, attempting to shoot my shot with Pepa. And I didn’t imagine I had an actual shot.”
Nevertheless, the romance didn’t final because it fizzled out shortly after their first date. Smith insisted the pair “all the time actually received alongside.”
He went on to wed Jada Pinkett virtually a decade later in 1997; Denton was married to rapper Treach from 1999 to 2001.
