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 observe the sundown.
Nonetheless, Smith admits nerves nearly received the higher of him.
“[It was] someday in early ‘88 … I at all times had a factor for Sandy, however she was at all times courting any person else,” he defined throughout an look on his “Class of ‘88” podcast alongside Salt-N-Pepa. “Now she was single. We had been each going to be in L.A. on the similar time, so I’mma shoot my shot. … This lady was particular and I wished to impress her, so I rented a white Mercedes convertible simply because I wanted to floss just a little bit. My plan was then to take her round Hollywood Hills, drive up Mulholland and watch the sundown.”
Nonetheless, 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 particular person.
“I do know precisely what occurred,” she defined. “We had been out and we noticed a homeless particular person, and also you gave the homeless particular person $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 at all times faked like I had sport. I didn’t actually have sport. I used to be at all times on this full-on, attempting to offer the wildest taste of getting sport. However that 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.”
Nonetheless, the romance didn’t final because it fizzled out shortly after their first date. Smith insisted the pair “at all times actually received alongside.”
He went on to wed Jada Pinkett nearly a decade later in 1997; Denton was married to rapper Treach from 1999 to 2001.
