Jada Pinkett Smith wears many hats. She’s an actress, a mom, a wife, an upcoming author, and a co-host on Red Table Talk. But her most important role, at 52 years old, is as a gatekeeper who shares her past to show that tough times don’t define our future.
Jada Pinkett Smith’s Interesting Past
Throughout her many toxic and chaotic interviews, she finally gave us an honest and down-to-earth interview. Jada Pinkett’s openness about her challenging past gives hope and strength to others. In a recent interview with PEOPLE to promote her upcoming book “Worthy,” she doesn’t hold back.
She talks about her marriage to Will Smith, her battles with mental health and thoughts of self-harm, the controversial 2022 Oscars, and her time as a teenage drug dealer. She explains that selling drugs as a teen was about survival in a drug-infested Baltimore in the 1980s.
Her environment left her no choice. Even if she didn’t like selling drugs, she had to be self-sufficient. She knew she had to lead if she wanted a better life. Pinkett Smith earned enough to support herself and help her mother and community.
She and her friends even bought groceries for senior women in their neighborhood. Jada also talked about her friendship with the late rapper Tupac Shakur, which started on the first day of high school. It was purely a friendship, not romantic. She’s still sad he was killed in 1996. Her love for Pac radiates as strong today as it did 30 years ago.
