Jada Pinkett Smith Does NOT Live in an Empty Nest: ‘They’re at the House Every Day!’

Jada Pinkett Smith is always going to be gorgeous, and now that her kids are done with high school and she seems to be living in an empty nest, she’s setting the record straight here.

“Listen, only Jaden and Trey,” she said to Entertainment Tonight. “Yes, Willow hasn’t left yet. Now, she will be 18 soon and I’m sure as soon as she turns 18, she’s out. But I have two that are gone. That’s what we prepare them for — to go. So Mommy goes, ‘Bye!’ … The thing is, Jaden lives five minutes from me. Trey lives five minutes from me. They’re at the house every day. It’s almost like as your kids get older, they actually need you more. So, I have three older kids that need me, like, more than ever! I’m like, ‘I’mma get my groove back, I got my freedom.’ It’s like, no.”

As far as aging gracefully, she says her secret is “happiness. As I get older, I get more and more happy. I just get more understanding about myself and about life, and I get more and more comfortable in my skin. Man, if I felt this way, the way I feel now, in my 20s? Man, I woulda been dangerous!”

Jada’s latest movie Girls Trip follows a group of four lifelong friends as they travel to the Essence Festival for a wild ride through the Big Easy, reports ET. Directed by Malcolm D. Lee, the film also stars Queen Latifah, Regina Hall and Tiffany Haddish.

“We had so much fun,” she said of the movie. “And you know what was really fun was just having a group of women that love women, can enjoy the company of other women, wanna support other women. So, that’s what made it even more enjoyable. We had — it felt like a girls’ trip, making the movie!”