Jada Pinkett Smith fans are still reeling from her claim that close friend Tupac Shakur once proposed to her. But for her son, Jaden Smith, there is nothing new about the revelation. In fact, he told the world about it a year ago.

The “Icon” rapper was a guest on “Big Boy’s Neighborhood” when he briefly addressed the otherwise unknown moment from Pinkett Smith’s past. “Tupac asked to marry my mom,” said Jaden after noticing a photo of the late rapper in the studio. “She was like, ‘Pac; we’re best friends,’” he added, alluding to his mother’s refusal.

Fast forward a year later, and the “Hawthorne” star has confirmed her son’s claim in her memoir “Worthy.” On the “All the Smoke” podcast, she said that Tupac was incarcerated at Rikers Island for a sexual abuse conviction in 1995, and was not in a good mental state when she visited him.

“When I wrote about that in the book and when I had to talk about it, speak my words for the Audible version of the book, that was probably one of the more painful parts,” Jada began. When Tupac asked for her hand in marriage, she knew at that time that he “needed somebody to do time with him,” she said, adding, “which I was going to do anyway. You ain’t have to marry me to do time. Right? I’m here.”

She continued, “And then two, he needed a rock. He needed — because of our friendship and because of everything we had been through together — he just wanted to feel that solidified foundation, you know? Because I promise you, he would have married me and divorced me as soon as his a– left. He would’ve; I gotta be real with it… I just think it was the mind state that he was in.”