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HISTORY: Jada Pinkett Smith

ACTRESS JADA Pinkett Smith revealed that she was a drug dealer when she first met late rapper Tupac Shakur.

The Girls Trip star has always maintained she befriended the California Love hitmaker when they attended Baltimore's School of Arts in Maryland together, but now she has opened up about the real story behind their relationship during a radio interview with DJ Sway.

When asked about how she and Shakur first became acquainted, Pinkett Smith said:

"It's kinda hard because I haven't really told the whole story. One of things that's very interesting, that I've never really said before, is that when I first met 'Pac, I was a drug dealer..."

The mother-of-two declined to share specifics about her first gig, but teased a big turn of events which shocked her into living on the right side of the law.

"I won't get into the details of it, because I'mma (sic) write a book about it," she explained.

"Just to give you like, (an idea), that's how we started, then something really bad happened to me (and) as I was coming out of the life (of a drug dealer), he was going more into the life."

Jada's confession emerges a month after she took aim at filmmakers behind the recent Tupac biopic All Eyez on Me, insisting the way they depicted her close friendship with the late hip-hop star was full of inaccuracies.

In a series of Twitter posts sent on the day of the movie's release on June 16 - what would have been the rapper’s 46th birthday - she wrote:

"Forgive me... my relationship to Pac is too precious to me for the scenes in All Eyez On Me to stand as truth."

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