Actor Will Smith said that he was very jealous of his wife’s love for Tupac Shakur that he was incapable of being friends with the late rapper.

In Will’s self-titled memoir that was released on Tuesday, the actor wrote about Jada Pinkett Smith’s relationship with Tupac.

“Though they were never intimate, their love for each other is legendary — they defined ‘ride or die,'” the Prince of Bel-Air star wrote in chapter 13 of his book.

Will met Jada in the ’90s, during that time, he was still married to Sheree Zampino. The two shared a son named Trey Smith. After speaking with Jada at a lounge for hours, Will knew that he was in a relationship with the wrong person.

Will and Sheree then divorced in 1995. Five days after he received the divorce papers, he called Jada and they began dating quietly.

In December 1997, Will and Jada got married.

In his memoir, the actor revealed that his “mind was tortured” by Jada’s platonic relationship with Tupac, who was her classmate at the Baltimore School for the Arts.

The 52-year-old described the late rapper as someone who was “fearless” and had “a willingness to fight and die for what he believed was right.”

“He triggered the perception of myself as a coward,” he wrote. “I hated that I wasn’t what he was in the world, and I suffered a raging jealousy: I wanted Jada to look at me like that.”

“When Jada and I committed to each other, and the demands of our relationship made her less available to ‘Pac, my immature mind took it as a twisted kind of victory,” the I Am Legend star said.

“Jada was the paragon, the pinnacle, the queen of queens,” he added. “If she chose me over Tupac, there was no way I could be a coward. I have rarely felt validated.”

Will, who was in his 20s at the time, said that he lacked the maturity to befriend Tupac.

“I was in a room with Tupac on multiple occasions, but I never spoke to him,” Will revealed. “The way Jada loved ‘Pac rendered me incapable of being friends with him. I was too immature.”

During an interview with The Breakfast Club in 2020, Will shared similar comments about how he reacted to Pinkett Smith and Shakur’s friendship. The actor said that he was “deeply insecure” and that his jealousy was “a big regret.”