Samuel L. Jackson shocks fans with stunning secret to surviving 44-year marriage to wife LaTanya

Just like Denzel Washington and his wife Pauletta Washington, Angela Bassett and her husband Courtney B. Vance, and Viola Davis and her husband Julius Tennon, Samuel L. Jackson and his wife LaTanya Richardson Jackson have been married for quite a while now and have successfully managed to keep their marriage as private as they need.

Having been married for 44 years, many would call this couple couple goals. But like all marriage, things weren’t at all times perfect within the Jackson household.

Jackson, who recently appeared in AARP Magazine, opened up about what he and his wife have done to keep their marriage going for greater than 4 a long time.

He he said, “A lot of tolerance, because everyone has flaws, and not giving up when it would be easy to give up. In my marriage, I did some shit that’s crazy, you know? She did too, in her head, or whatever in reality, but you have to say to yourself, ‘Is this a crime to break up? Or do we just have to spend some time together and figure this out?'”

Another tip Jackson gave for a long-lasting marriage is to accept who your partner is. He continued, explaining, “Or there are certain things that you learn to ignore in people — that she learned to ignore in me. And one of the things she had to accept is that I’m going to go to work. I’m going to go to work all the time until, you know, it’s time.”

His exertions paid off, as he starred in greater than 120 movies, from animated and PG movies to Marvel sci-fi and action-packed fare. In 2000, his on-screen performances earned him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in a 2018 survey, he was even named probably the most influential actor of all time. But glitter wasn’t at all times gold for the Oscar winner.

In the Nineteen Seventies, when his profession was just taking off, Jackson struggled with drug addiction, something he credited his wife with saving him. In 2022, the “Incredibles” star he said People claimed he was not LaTanya’s husband and the daddy of their daughter Zoe Jackson.

He said: “I basically moved into the basement of our brownstone. I was like a basement troll and every once in a while I would come upstairs and hang around to do something. I was addicted and crazy.”

Jackson decided to end it after his wife and daughter found him unconscious on the kitchen floor after making cocaine on the stove.

In an interview with “60 Minutes,” Jackson shared details about that day, saying, “I didn’t have a chance to smoke, and the next day I was in rehab,” and, “I wasn’t kicking and screaming, I was tired.”

The “Pulp Fiction” star quit drugs in 1991.

As for LaTanya, Jackson said, “I give her credit because she could have just taken Zoe and left and ended things with me. But she didn’t. That’s a greater love than I’ll ever know.”