Jada Pinkett and Will Smith's separation: Why all the secrecy?

Ireland's first divorce coach talks about the stigma behind separation, and how society is now moving from martyrdom to YOLO 

Jada Pinkett Smith has been promoting her new memoir, Worthy.

They’d always billed their relationship as unconventional, but the clutching of pearls after Jada Pinkett Smith revealed she’d been separated from husband Will Smith for seven years says a lot about how society still views the end of a marriage.

By all accounts, the union between the Men in Black star and actress Jada Pinkett Smith has been an on-again-off-again saga. Recurring patterns of talking in the media about their rifts and subsequent reconciliations has been a feature of their marriage since 1997.