Jada Pinkett Smith says her mother was about 17 or 18 when Jada was born.
“I mean, my mom was 17, right? 1718, She was 17 when she was pregnant. I think she was 18 by the time she had me.”
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When Jada Pinkett Smith was seven, her father Rob told her he was an addict and a criminal and could not be her father.
“he just said, he said, Look, I'm a I'm an addict and a criminal and I can't be your father.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says her first professional job was at about seven years old, as one of Madame Bon Bon's children in The Nutcracker.
“I think my 1st professional gig was like, seven years old, as one of Madame Bon Bon's children in the Nutcracker.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says her mother was addicted to heroin when her stepfather Tony left.
“heroin at that time. And so you, you can't, you can't negotiate with that, it's either you wanna get help, you know,”
Jada Pinkett Smith says she was 17, in her senior year of high school, when two guns were pointed at her.
“I had to be 17, 17, 17 years old, because that was my senior year of high school.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says she sold drugs from a ground-floor apartment in the projects, through a window or door, when she was robbed.
“I had, uh, posted up in this in the projects, in this apartment on the bottom floor, where I would sell drugs out of the window or through the door of that particular apartment.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says the man who led her robbery later murdered two drug dealers and received a life sentence.
“the person who led that robbery ended up killing two drug dealers. Um, two weeks or a month after, put him in a, uh, put him in a trunk, shot the trunk up and, uh, murdered two guys.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says the robber told her he spared her because she was 'too pretty'.
“I asked him, I said, You know, why'd you just leave me there? like? and he said, You were too pretty.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says Warren Beatty was one of the first people in Hollywood to talk with her about softening her guarded manner without criticising her.
“how Warren Beatty, bless him, he was probably one of the 1st people that was just like, Hey, you're in Hollywood now.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says she met Tupac Shakur on the first day at the Baltimore School for the Arts.
“1st day of school, Baltimore School for the Arts. And um, I. As soon as I walk in, he's holding court, he's holding court”
Jada Pinkett Smith says she asked Tupac Shakur to kiss her on her back porch, and both found it unpleasant, which ended any romantic interest.
“I'm like, Okay, Pac, just kiss me, and he kisses me, and it's the most disgusting kiss between us both.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says she auditioned in the second year of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to play one of Will Smith's girlfriends and was told she was too short.
“So I auditioned for Fresh Prince. I think it was the 2nd year to play one of his girlfriends. And they were like, you're too short.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says Will Smith flew to North Carolina to offer her a recurring role as his girlfriend on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and she declined to focus on movies.
“So he flew in to North Carolina to meet me and I was like, Nah, I'm gonna do movies now.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says Debbie Allen protected her interests on the series A Different World, which she thought she would lack on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
“I knew like I had the protection of Debbie Allen on a different world, right?”
Jada Pinkett Smith says that after her first breakdown she saw a psychiatrist, was prescribed Prozac and started therapy.
“went to see a psychiatrist, they put me on um, Prozac, and I, I started therapy.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says she bought a farmhouse on roughly six to nine acres near Baltimore after her breakdown.
“And so I bought a farmhouse, I bought a little farmhouse on. I wanna say it was about six acres, might six or nine acres, if I remember correctly”
Jada Pinkett Smith says Will Smith phoned her soon after Sheree Zampino sent him divorce papers.
“he had just Sheree had just sent him divorce papers, and um, he decides to call me.”
Jada Pinkett Smith reads from a letter in which Tupac Shakur proposed marriage to her while he was in jail.
“That is why I wanna commit myself to you, I wanna marry you.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says she and Tupac Shakur had one of their biggest fights, and it was the last time they spoke.
“we had a we had a huge fight, huge. It was one of the biggest fights we had ever had.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says her friend Maxine, who lived with her, may have been misdiagnosed and had a thyroid disorder that disrupted her mental health.
“we feel as though she, um, had a misdiagnosis. She had some kind of thyroid disorder that really, um, disrupted her psyche.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says her friend Maxine died by suicide by jumping from her mother's balcony.
“And, uh, she ended up jumping off her mother's balcony and committed. She committed suicide.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says she has a close friendship with Lauren London, widow of Nipsey Hussle, built partly on their shared experience of loss.
“I have a beautiful friendship with, um, Lauren London, and she is the widow of Nipsey Hussle.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says it took her and Will Smith three decades to learn to balance their different needs in the relationship.
“And so, yeah, it took Will and I three decades.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says that around age 39 she planned to drive off a cliff on a narrow, foggy road to Big Sur.
“Big Sur, I knew exactly the route to drive, and it's this really narrow route, and sometimes it gets really foggy there at night.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says her son Jaden's friends told her about their father's ayahuasca experience, which led her to attend her own ceremony.
“Um, his friend's father did ayahuasca, and they happened to be talking about it, and they talked to me about it.”
Jada Pinkett Smith says Will Smith was not ready for the public to know they were separated when she raised it on Red Table Talk.
“Will wasn't ready for the world to know that we weren't together and that we were living separate lives.”