Will Smith says gratitude is ‘highest virtue’ as he sings Happy Birthday to spouse Jada Pinkett Smith. Watch video

Actor Jada Pinkett Smith celebrated her 51st birthday on Sunday, surrounded by her family and friends. On Tuesday, she shared a video of the celebrations on Instagram, and captioned the put up, “✨I’m so grateful for all the birthday love yesterday✨ Thank you 🥰🙏🏽🥰.”

The video reveals a small gathering of individuals, all of whom are singing the birthday music for Jada. She’s carrying a pink sweater and a cap. Her husband, actor Will Smith, stood on her aspect, whereas their son Jaden stood behind her as she walked in the direction of her birthday cake and blew out the candles. Smith sang the loudest, and declared that ‘gratitude’ is the ‘highest virtue’ after his spouse stated that she was grateful for the life she has.

The Smith household has had a slightly eventful 12 months, after Will Smith’s notorious assault on comic Chris Rock at this 12 months’s Oscars. Smith was triggered after Rock made a joke about Jada’s look. He walked up from his front-row seat and slapped Rock throughout the face minutes earlier than profitable an Oscar for Best Actor, and saying in his tearful speech that individuals have tried to carry him down and he’s taken all of it on the chin.

He was later noticed having fun with himself at post-ceremony events. Smith subsequently resigned from the Academy and was banned from attending Academy-related capabilities, together with the Oscars, for 10 years. He additionally posted an apology video on his Instagram account.

While it was initially believed that his profession had taken successful, with Netflix and Sony quietly placing deliberate movies with the actor on the aspect, Apple is mulling over a launch technique for its upcoming awards contender Emancipation, which had been accomplished earlier than the incident. Earlier this week, it was introduced that Oscar-winning Pakistani director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy had signed on to star in a undertaking that may doubtlessly star Smith.