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Oct 2023
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Jada Pinkett Smith (EXCLUSIVE): “I just ...

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If you enjoy hearing about the hidden side of Hollywood, I recommend you check out my conversation with Cole Sprouse, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPup-1pDepY


Drug dealer, Hollywood star, wife, mother, icon. Jada Pinkett Smith is dismantling her defences and revealing all.


In this new episode Steven sits down with global superstar, Jada Pinkett Smith.

Jada Pinkett Smith is an American actor who has appeared in films such as, ‘The Nutty Professor’, ‘Magic Mike XXL’ and ‘The Matrix Resurrections’. She is the co-host of the talk show ‘Red Table Talk’, and was named as one of Time magazines’ 100 Most Influential people in 2021.


In this conversation Jada and Steven discuss topics, such as:

  • How drugs were here parents priority
  • Taking to the streets to find her identity and self-worth
  • Being told by her father that he couldn’t be her father
  • Using acting and art as an outlet and a way to escape
  • Acting as a way to escape
  • The domestic violence she experienced
  • Wanting to be a hustler and big time drug dealer
  • Drug dealing as a teenager
  • Trying to created herm own safety, security and protection
  • Growing up in a ‘war zone’ and getting used to violence and vigilance
  • Getting a gun pointed to her head at 17 years old
  • Being ‘out of her mind’ and fearless
  • Coming to Hollywood in survival mode
  • Being misunderstood all her life
  • Never feeling as if you have ‘arrived’ and wanting to be loved
  • Meeting Tupac at 14 years old
  • Kissing Tupac and their relationship
  • The greatness of Tupac
  • Meeting Will Smith for the first time
  • How Will Smith taught her never judge a book by its cover
  • Having a mental breakdown and wanting to die
  • Buying a farmhouse to escape Hollywood to build a quiet life
  • Seeing Tupac in Rikers Island prison
  • The last time she ever saw Tupac
  • Still working out her relationship with grief
  • Feeling spiritually bankrupt at the peak of her success
  • Abandoning herself to Will Smith’s dreams
  • The flaws of the romantic dream
  • Being told by Will to go make herself happy
  • Detoxing her need for outside validation and perfection
  • Waking up everyday and just trying to make it to 4pm
  • Planning her suicide to look like an accident
  • Feeling as if she was born broken
  • ‘The Slap’ and taking the blame for events
  • Why ‘The Slap’ was never about her


You can purchase Jada’s new memoir, ‘Worthy’, here: https://bit.ly/3S0co4z

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