‘Fresh Prince’ Actress Janet Hubert Shares Will Smith Update After Years-Long Feud

Janet Hubert returned to “the scene of the crime” last week when she appeared on Atlanta’s V-103 radio station, the place where she says her decades-long feud with Will Smith began. Hubert played the original Vivian Banks alongside Smith in the hit 1990s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air before departing the show in 1993 after three seasons, citing “creative differences.” Daphne Maxwell Reid then took over the character. In the years after, Hubert and Smith’s relationship frayed, with the pair occasionally feuding in the public eye for almost 30 years. They later reunited for the sitcom’s HBO Max 30-year reunion special in 2020, where they cleared the air and mended old wounds.