{"id":870483,"date":"2026-10-04T13:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/870483\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T13:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:16:14","slug":"jada-pinkett-smith-wants-wills-ex-pal-to-sit-for-mental-exam-to-prove-emotional-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/870483\/","title":{"rendered":"Jada Pinkett Smith Wants Will&#8217;s Ex-Pal To Sit For Mental Exam to Prove Emotional Distress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Jada Pinkett Smith To Will&#8217;s Ex-Pal<br \/>\n                          Doctors Need To Check Your Head &#8230;<br \/>\n                          No Way I Caused Emotional Distress!!!<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              October 4, 2026<br \/>\n                            1:00 AM PDT<br \/>\n                                                                      |<br \/>\n                                                                Updated<br \/>\n                                  October 4, 2026<br \/>\n                                5:27 AM PDT\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20261001_2869691022a4402c8f77a76a1b9a6c54\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:b551b483-53ff-4329-91de-84d56c061ba6\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2869691022a4402c8f77a76a1b9a6c54_md.jpg\" alt=\"jada pinkett smith bilaal salaam getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jada-pinkett-smith\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jada Pinkett Smith<\/a> wants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/will-smith\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Smith<\/a>&#8216;s former friend, who is suing the actress and claiming she threatened him, to submit to a mental exam &#8230; TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p>According to court docs, obtained by TMZ, Jada is asking the judge to give her permission to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/bilaal-salaam\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bilaal Salaam<\/a> sit for a lengthy mental exam to test the claims he made in his lawsuit about suffering emotional distress due to her alleged conduct.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260423_e2456c980e904264807a0c6647c4f6a3\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:b551b483-53ff-4329-91de-84d56c061ba6\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/e2456c980e904264807a0c6647c4f6a3_md.jpg\" alt=\"will smith and bilaal salaam 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve previously reported &#8230; Bilaal is seeking $3 million in damages, claiming Jada threatened him and inflicted severe emotional distress.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He says she caused him to live overseas due to fear, caused him to lose his long-term romantic partner, and caused him to develop high blood pressure \u2026 and Jada said that is reason enough for him to be examined by a doctor for 5 to 6 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260102_0cf9de0a97ab429fa8f4eca6497264eb\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:b551b483-53ff-4329-91de-84d56c061ba6\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0cf9de0a97ab429fa8f4eca6497264eb_md.jpg\" alt=\"will smith jada pinket smith getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>She insists Bilaal made his mental and emotional condition a &#8220;centerpiece&#8221; of his case, so she should have the right to have a doctor examine whether and to what extent he suffers from those alleged conditions.<\/p>\n<p>As TMZ first reported, Bilaal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/12\/02\/jada-pinkett-smith-reportedly-threatened-will-smith-friend\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claims<\/a> Jada and other friends went after him after he refused to help Will clean up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/chris-rock\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Rock<\/a> mess \u2026 and became upset after learning he was planning to write a memoir and mention Will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jada Pinkett Smith To Will&#8217;s Ex-Pal Doctors Need To Check Your Head &#8230; No Way I Caused Emotional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-870483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}