Jada Pinkett Smith Reveals When Daughter Willow Told Her She Was Cutting Herself
Jada Pinkett Smith got extra personal on The MOMS podcast with Denise Albert and Melissa Musen Gerstein for the launch of Jada’s return to her own show, Facebook’s Red Table Talk.
The actress revealed she and Willow, 17, had “talked” about the moment after Willow admitted on Red Table Talk she had been self-harming after achieving success with her 2010 single “Whip My Hair.”
“I wanted to make sure she was okay,” Jada explained. “We went through what happened and in the moment I realized as a mother you also have to give your children space to deal with their own shadow… There’s lots of things that my mother didn’t know about me that she’s just finding out about me. Our kids don’t want to burden us.”
She added, “I focused more on how she got herself out versus what got her there. I was most proud about that she could share it in the way she did, which let me know she had come through in a major way that she could put it on the table like that.”
“I wanted to focus on what [it was] that got her through,” the actress explained. “I really talked to her about her powering side of her journey and give her all the praise in the world for that part instead of focusing on, ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’”
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