Bilaal Salaam says Jada Pinkett Smith’s alleged threats wrecked his health, relationship, and safety, worth $3 million. Her answer just hit the docket prove it to a doctor for six hours.
The California legal war turned sharpest Saturday, with Pinkett Smith asking Judge Eric Harmon of Van Nuys Superior Court, ahead of a November 9 hearing, for permission to have Bilaal Salaam, Will Smith’s former close friend now suing her, submit to a lengthy mental examination, per court documents obtained by TMZ. The session would run five to six hours with a doctor, aimed at testing the distress claims at the heart of his lawsuit.
Her filing’s logic is blunt. Salaam “has placed his mental condition in controversy by suing for intentional infliction of emotional distress,” her attorneys argue in the pleadings, making his condition a “centerpiece” of the case she is entitled to test. And the motion’s sharpest tooth: per the pleadings, Salaam has represented that he has no documents evidencing his claimed injuries, “leaving his own testimony as the only evidence of his mental condition,” entitling her to “a fair opportunity to test plaintiff’s claims through an examination by a qualified psychiatrist.“
The claims are sweeping. Salaam seeks $3 million, alleging threats and severe emotional distress that he says forced him overseas in fear, cost him his long-term partner, and left him with high blood pressure. Each is an allegation from his suit, carrying what he calls the “cumulative weight” of intimidation, and each is what the exam would test.
The stated origin reaches back to Hollywood’s most famous slap. Per his lawsuit, Pinkett Smith and other friends went after him when he refused to help Will clean up the Chris Rock mess, with tensions deepening over a memoir he planned that would mention the actor.
The scoreboard leans one direction. The majority of his suit has been thrown out, and Pinkett Smith won $48,975 in legal costs from him this spring, after which he told the court he is homeless and cannot pay. He has since tried to depose Will Smith and announced plans to sue the actor too, pulling the family deeper into the fight.
Salaam is representing himself. A defense exam request is standard machinery in distress cases, and Judge Harmon decides November 9. If granted, the man who says Jada broke his peace of mind lets her doctor measure it.
Check the Claims, Says the Defense
The thread split three ways fast. “I feel like the general public should sue Jada for the mental distress she has caused us all over the past 5 years,” ran the saga-weary take, while the skeptic lane kept to the math: “let s be fair the guy seems to play the blaming game to cash in.” And Salaam’s corner answered with a counteroffer: “Low key probably should get 8 million.“
Three million dollars in alleged anguish, five to six hours in a doctor’s chair, and one judge deciding whether they meet.
The suit made his suffering the centerpiece. Her motion asked to lift the cloth.
