Janet Hubert returned to “the scene of the crime” final week when she appeared on Atlanta’s V-103 radio station, the place the place she says her decades-long feud with Will Smith started.
Hubert performed the unique Vivian Banks alongside Smith within the hit Nineties sitcom The Contemporary Prince of Bel-Air earlier than departing the present in 1993 after three seasons, citing “inventive variations.” Daphne Maxwell Reid then took over the character.
Within the years after, Hubert and Smith’s relationship frayed, with the pair sometimes feuding within the public eye for nearly 30 years. They later reunited for the sitcom’s HBO Max 30-year reunion particular in 2020, the place they cleared the air and mended outdated wounds.
When requested the place her relationship with Smith stands as we speak, Hubert stated, “It’s so good… I’m gonna give my child his props, he put collectively the web site [for her independent animated film JG and the BC Kids] along with his staff, for me. Paid for it, after which gave me his complete social media staff to work with, and helped me put the pitches on the market.”
The Demascus actor additionally revealed she was at “the scene of the crime,” noting how V-103 was the station the place a younger Smith first “dogged her out.”
THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR REUNION, from left: Will Smith, Janet Hubert, (aired Nov. 19, 2020). photograph: Saeed Adyani / ©HBO Max / Courtesy Everett Assortment
“Again within the day, this station was the station he did that first interview,” Hubert shared. “So I’m on the scene of the crime, so it’s very cathartic for me and really therapeutic for me to be right here. We come full circle, all people.”
Based on Self-importance Honest, citing a 1993 subject of Jet, Smith beforehand informed the Atlanta station how Hubert “wished the present to be The Aunt Viv of Bel-Air Present.” These feedback, per Hubert, are what kick-started a rivalry that lasted nearly three a long time.
Smith has since revealed he “made a horrible error” towards Hubert on the top of Contemporary Prince‘s reputation. In a 2024 episode of Vice’s Black Comedy in America docuseries, he confessed, per Individuals, “I made a horrible error and misjudgment of her worth and energy and sweetness to the present. I horribly underestimated what she was for me at that time in my life.”
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