Report: Will and Jada Split

By: Jenée Desmond-Harris | Posted: January 5, 2012 at 1:35 PM

Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith (Joe Scarnici/Getty Images)

It might be time to call in the online grief counselors again. (Remember when rumors of a Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith divorce first started swirling in August, and fans were as upset as if their own parents were splitting up -- only 10 times worse?)

In Touch Weekly reports that Jada recently met with a celebrity divorce lawyer and quotes a source who says that she has "finally begun to take steps to dissolve their marriage."

The magazine first reported that Will and Jada had separated in August after 13 years of marriage. In response to those allegations, the pair said at the time, "Although we are reluctant to respond to these types of press reports, the rumors circulating about our relationship are completely false. We are still together, and our marriage is intact."

If the latest news is making you uneasy, consider revisiting The Root's Helena Andrews' advice: "We assign too much importance to the success or failure of a couple we don't even know. Calm down, people."

Read more at the Huffington Post.

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