Open Relationship: Will And Jada Smith Aren't The Only Celeb Couple To Deal With Rumors

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From divorce rumors to open marriage speculation, the internet can't stop talking about Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith's relationship.

Pinkett Smith got fans buzzing again earlier this month, when she addressed the open marriage rumors in an interview with HuffPost Live's Marc Lamont Hill.

“Will and I are very relaxed with one another,” she told the host. “I’ve always told Will, ‘you can do whatever he wants as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa."

The actress' comments may have made headlines, but the Smiths are hardly the first superstar couple to deal with open relationship -- and divorce -- rumors. Click through the slideshow below for more on Will and Jada's marriage and four other couples who have been rumored to be in open relationships in the past.

5 Couples Rumored To Have Open Relationships
Will Smith And Jada Pinkett Smith (01 of05)
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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett have been swatting down divorce rumors for nearly two years. The other rumor they've had to deal with throughout their 17-year marriage? Ongoing reports that they have an open relationship. The rumors first began back in 2008, when tabloids claimed the "Men In Black" star said his wife could be with another man if she felt she needed to. After giving an interview with HuffPost Live that sparked more open marriage speculation in April 2013, Pinkett Smith took to her Facebook page to clarify her statements: "Will and I BOTH can do WHATEVER we want, because we TRUST each other to do so. This does NOT mean we have an open relationship...this means we have a GROWN one." (credit:AP)
Demi Moore And Ashton Kutcher(02 of05)
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When Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher split in late 2011, reports quickly emerged that the couple had been in an open marriage. "Demi liked women and Ashton would bring another woman into their relationship for flings, but they both agreed to it," an unnamed source told Radar Online. The report claimed that the couple split after Kutcher's alleged affair with Sara Leal because the actor had hidden the fling from Moore. "As long as she knew about it, she was fine," the source said. "It was the sneaky ones when he got caught that infuriated Demi." (credit:AP )
Pink And Carey Hart (03 of05)
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Pink and husband Carey Hart split briefly in 2008 after two years of marriage, but by April 2009, the pair had reportedly reconciled. The cause of the couple's temporary split, according to The New York Daily News? A source told the paper that Pink was fed up with the couple's "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding seeing other people. (credit:AP )
Dolly Parton And Carl Dean (04 of05)
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Country legend Dolly Parton has been married to Carl Dean, an asphalt-paving business owner, since 1966. In December 2007, the Daily Mail suggested that Parton, who denied divorce rumors in the early 1980s, had hinted that she was in an open marriage. "If we cheat we don't know it, so if we do cheat, it's very good for both us," the singer reportedly told a crowd in Rotherham, England. "I don't want to know it, if he's cheating on me. If I'm cheating on him, he wouldn't want to know it ... And if we do, if that's what's making it work, then that's fine too." (credit:Getty Images )
Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie (05 of05)
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Speculation that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were in an open relationship sprung up after the actress shared her thoughts on monogamy in a December 2009 interview with Germany's Das Neue Blatt magazine. "I doubt that fidelity is absolutely essential for a relationship," Jolie said. "It's worse to leave your partner and talk badly about him afterwards." The couple, who has long been the subject of split rumors, announced their engagement in April 2012. (credit:Getty Images )

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