Will Smith has revealed he once wanted to date a "harem" of women - including fellow Hollywood star Halle Berry - when his film career and marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith began to break down.
The I Am Legend actor sought the help of an "intimacy coach" in the midst of a mid-life crisis in a desperate bid to get back on track.
Recalling the conversations he had with his coach to GQ, Will was asked what he would have if he could have anything in the world.
Per Page Six, a "harem of girlfriends" was Will's answer, before specifying Berry and ballet dancer Misty Copeland as two women he'd invite into it.
At the urging of his coach, Smith spent a session researching the women and planning to contact them.
"After we played it out a little bit, I was like, 'That would be horrific. That would be horrific,'" he told GQ. "I was like, 'Can you imagine how miserable?'"
"What she was doing was essentially cleaning out my mind, letting it know it was okay to be me and be who I was," he went on.
"It was okay to think Halle is fine. It doesn't make me a bad person that I’m married and I think Halle is beautiful. Whereas in my mind, in my Christian upbringing, even my thoughts were sins.
"That was really the process that Michaela worked me through to let me realize that my thoughts were not sins and even acting on an impure thought didn’t make me a piece of s***."
Smith added that, during his crisis, he rented a house in Utah and sat in solitude for 14 days. He then flew to Peru to take part in a number of ayahuasca rituals.
The actor also traveled without security for the first time and launched his own TikTok account.
"I totally opened myself up to what, I think, was a fresh sampling of the fruits of the human experience," he added.
In the same interview, Will revealed that both he and Jada have had sexual relationships with other people during their marriage.
Last year, the couple's union made headlines after rapper August Alsina claimed that he had engaged in a relationship with Jada with Will's permission.
Watch Will and Jada open up about her 'entanglement' with August Alsina:
Jada initially denied the claims, but when she and Will took part in an interview for her web show Red Table Talk, she said that an "entanglement" had occurred.
Admitting that while their marriage was initially monogamous, they later decided to open it up after they were "both miserable and clearly something had to change."
What's more, Will made it clear that it wasn't just Jada who explored other romantic avenues during their marriage, as he revealed that he, too, engaged in other sexual relationships.
"Jada never believed in conventional marriage. Jada had family members that had an unconventional relationship. So she grew up in a way that was very different than how I grew up," he explained.
"There were significant endless discussions about, what is relational perfection? What is the perfect way to interact as a couple? And for the large part of our relationship, monogamy was what we chose, not thinking of monogamy as the only relational perfection," he added.
He went on: "We have given each other trust and freedom, with the belief that everybody has to find their own way. And marriage for us can’t be a prison.
"And I don’t suggest our road for anybody. I don’t suggest this road for anybody. But the experiences that the freedoms that we’ve given one another and the unconditional support, to me, is the highest definition of love."
