Jada Pinkett Smith Reveals That She Was Addicted to Sex When She Was Young

By Katrina Nattress

July 9, 2018

Jada Pinkett Smith has been opening up about all aspects of her life on her new Facebook Watch series, Red Table Talk, and the latest episode may be the most emotional yet.

During the episode, which focused on the topic of addiction, the 46-year-old actress opened up to her mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones about how she knew from an early age that her mom had a drug problem, R&B singer August Alsina opened up about her addiction to Percocet, and Jada's husband, Will Smith's, younger sister, Ashley talked about constantly smoking weed. When it was Jada's turn to share her story, she admitted she's had "several" addictions, including sex when she was younger.

“My sort of addictions jump. They jump around,” she said. “When I was younger, I definitely think I had a sex addiction of some kind, yes, that everything could be fixed by sex. You know what I’m saying?”

"Then I became a gym addict," she continued. "I was just in the gym, constantly."

But her "rock bottom" came from alcohol.

“I remember reaching a rock bottom that time I was in the house by myself and I had those two bottles of wine and was going for the third bottle,” she recalled. “And I was like, ‘Now hold up. You’re in this house by yourself going onto your third bottle of wine? You might have a problem.'”

“So I went cold turkey—that’s the thing about me: I can go cold turkey—I am a binger, and I always have to watch myself and I can just get obsessed with things," she added. "It’s not what you’re doing, but how you’re with it—why you’re doing it. It’s the behavior that’s attached to it, because if you want to have a lot of sex, that’s great, but why are you having all that sex? That’s what you’ve got to look at.”

This isn't the first time Jada's been candid about sex addiction. During another episode of Red Table Talk she admitted she was addicted to giving herself orgasms after her grandmother taught her how to masturbate at the age of nine.

Watch the latest episode of Red Table Talk below.

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