Jada Pinkett Smith spoke about why she thinks Justin and Hailey Bieber are compatible as partners.- On "
Red Table Talk ," the star said she thinks their marriage works because "they agree on God." - "They want to love God together. And that is always their North Star," Pinkett Smith said.
Jada Pinkett Smith says Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin) are compatible as a couple because they have a common goal beyond their relationship.
"They're a beautiful couple," Pinkett Smith said on the latest episode of her Facebook Watch series "Red Table Talk," which she cohosts with her daughter Willow Smith and mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris.
She added: "Not to say that they won't have their difficulties, because they will. But here's the thing that I love about how they started their relationship: They agree on God. They want to serve God, and they want to love God together. And that is always their North Star."
Pinkett Smith's comments about the pop singer, who's been a close friend of the Smith family for years, came during a discussion about polyamory on the talk show.
The 49-year-old actress said all relationships, whether they're polyamorous or monogamous, "need to be connected to something greater than you."
"I think the reason why so many relationships are not working is that they're steeped in self-gratification, and that is going to get you in trouble every time," Pinkett Smith said.
In the case of the Biebers, Pinkett Smith said that their faith was the anchor that goes beyond their relationship.
Justin and Hailey met in 2009 at NBC's "Today" show after Hailey's father, Stephen Baldwin, "dragged her out of bed in the morning," the singer said during an interview on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in 2020.
"I think, because she was raised Christian, and I think she … they found out that I ... I think it was an arranged marriage, I'm pretty sure," Justin told guest host Demi Lovato at the time. "Looking back now, I'm like, it was definitely an arranged marriage. Like, they set this whole thing up."
The singer and the model dated nonexclusively in the years after their first meeting.
They got married at a courthouse in New York in September 2018. The following year, the couple had a ceremony and reception at Montage Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina.
Hailey previously spoke about how she and Justin bonded over their shared religious beliefs.
"Being able to share that with each other - to have that bond of faith and spirituality - is so [critical] for us," she told Elle in 2020. "It's the most important part of our relationship, following Jesus together, being a part of the church community together. It's everything."
In another interview with Elle the following year, Hailey said she and her husband independently agreed they wanted to get married at a young age.
"I do think for somebody like me and somebody like Justin, [it's different]," she said. "We've seen a lot for our age. We have both lived enough life to know that's what we wanted."
In a cover story for the May 2021 issue of GQ magazine, Justin said their first year of marriage was "really tough" because of a lack of trust. The singer, whose messy past was highly documented, also said his faith had kept him stable.
"There was a lot, going back to the trauma stuff. There was just lack of trust," he said. "There was all these things that you don't want to admit to the person that you're with, because it's scary. You don't want to scare them off by saying, 'I'm scared.'"