*In the latest episode of “Red Table Talk,” Jada Pinkett Smith, her mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones, and daughter Willow Smith dish about how the coronavirus pandemic can impact people battling addiction.
Banfield-Jones opened up about her personal experience overcoming a heroin addiction 30 years ago, and Jada praised Willow for curbing her “excessive weed smoking.”
“Willow, I’m really proud of you as well, because you have decided to curb your excessive weed smoking,” Pinkett Smith said of her daughter, Complex reports.
“You always were telling me, you’d be like, ‘Gotta stop that smoking,'” Willow jokingly responded.
“Only because as your mother, I could see the effects of it that you couldn’t,” Jada said, with Adrienne adding, “And for me, it was like with the history that we have in our family it was driving me crazy.”
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— Jada Pinkett Smith (@jadapsmith) April 8, 2020
Willow said she scaled back on smoking three months ago and quickly noticed how many of her “friends” cut ties with her.
“When I stopped smoking it was a really big, like, eye opener because I was like, there are so many people that I called friends in my life who kind of like…,” she said as Adrienne finished her sentence, saying, “drifted away.”
Willow added, “I know it sounds so cheesy but around the time I stopped smoking I started doing a lot of yoga,” she said. “And I just excelled. ‘Cause I was putting all of my energy into that. Like I wasn’t doing anything else and I was like wow, what if I was doing this with everything?”
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— Red Table Talk (@RedTableTalk) April 8, 2020
Jada recently opened up to ET about her own battle with sobriety.
“I think after this there’s just going to be a lot of recalibrating and that’s just part of it,” Pinkett Smith said. “Change is never easy. All those concepts and ideas that got us to a place of sobriety are the places we need to return to and hold onto even more fiercely than we have before.”
Praising her mother Adrienne, Jada added, “She just has some really veteran, useful tips in regards to how to stay clean, how to stay connected, and what to do. …It’s like I always tell people, ‘Never judge the journey you’ve been on because once you get through on the other side, you’re gonna have so much to offer other people who are going through it as you once had.”
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