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*On the second episode of “Red Table Talk,” Willow Smith opened up about her battle with depression in her early childhood.
Joined by her mother Jada Pinkett Smith, and grandmother Adrienne Banfield-Jones, Willow stunned them both when she disclosed something she had never shared with her family.
“I would have to say … honestly, I feel like I lost my sanity at one point,” the 17-year-old singer and model said. “It was after that whole ‘Whip My Hair’ thing and I just had stopped doing singing lessons and I was kind of like, just in this gray area of, ‘Who am I? Do I have a purpose? Is there anything, like, I can do besides this?’”
Willow released “Whip My Hair” in 2010 at the age of 9.
Scroll up to watch a clip from the conversation via the player above.
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“After the tour and the promotion and all of that, they wanted me to finish my album,” Willow added. “And I was like — I’m not gonna do that. And after all of that kinda settled down and it was like a kind of lull, I was just listening to a lot of dark music, and it was just so crazy and I was just like plunged into this black hole, and I was, like, cutting myself.”
Willow said she only told one friend about her self-harming, and even showed her mom an old scar on her wrist.
“I never talk about it because it was such a short, weird point in my life, but you have to pull yourself … out of it,” she said. “I honestly felt like I was experiencing so much emotional pain, but my physical circumstances weren’t reflecting that.”
Watch the full episode below.
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