Jada Pinkett Smith Admits Past Addiction To Drugs: "I’m a walking miracle"
By Chuck Dizzle
July 8, 2021
Jada Pinkett Smith is recalling the scary health moments that made her turn her life.
In a new episode of her Facebook Watch show, Red Table Talk, the actress opened up about her past drug and alcohol addiction.
She explains how this chapter of her life happened in 1996 when she was filming The Nutty Professor, alongside Eddie Murphy. She then further details the affect ecstasy, weed and alcohol had in her.
"I went to work high, and it was a bad batch of ecstasy, and I passed out," she said on the new episode of Red Table Talk. "And I told everybody that … I must have had old medication in a vitamin bottle."
"But I tell you what I did though," Pinkett Smith added. "Got my ass together and got on that set. That was the last time."
Check out a few of the clips for the Red Table Talk conversation below and if you'd like watch the full episode, click here.
Join us today at the Red Table as we discuss how women are drinking A LOT of alcohol. It’s a trend that has been happening for awhile but since the pandemic, it’s been illuminated that women are abusing alcohol more and more to cope.
— Jada Pinkett Smith (@jadapsmith) July 7, 2021
In my 20’s I was a binge drinker and experimented with several types of mind altering substances. In this clip I speak on an incident that happened to me in the make up trailer on Nutty Professor after a weekend of partying. pic.twitter.com/4xiBsBx5jZ
— Jada Pinkett Smith (@jadapsmith) July 7, 2021
It was a moment that I began to understand that something had to change. Thank you to Judy Murdock who was my makeup artist at the time and hung in there with the young Jada that was trying to manage and find her way. I’m getting there😜
— Jada Pinkett Smith (@jadapsmith) July 7, 2021