Jada Pinkett -Smith Opens Up About Her Ugly Past Struggles With Drugs And Alcohol Addiction
American actress, Jada Pinkett -Smith has opened up about her past issues with drugs and alcohol addictions, describing herself as a walking miracle.
During a candid conversation on the latest “Red Table Talk,” the 49-year-old Hollywood star revealed that she passed out on the set of the 1996 comedy “The Nutty Professor” after taking the drug ecstasy.
“I had one incident on ‘Nutty Professor.’ I passed out. Makeup trailer,” Pinkett Smith told her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, and daughter, Willow Smith, who co-host the Facebook Watch talk show alongside her.
“I went to work high and it was a bad batch of ecstasy. And I passed out and I told everybody that I must have had old medication in a vitamin bottle,”
the mum-of-two continued, calling the experience “eye-opening.”
“But I tell you what I did though. Got my a– together and got on that set. That was the last time,”
she added.
The “Girls Trip” star described herself at that time of her life as a “weekend party girl.” However, her pattern of overindulging, she said, dated back as far as high school.
“I could drink almost anybody under the table,” she recalled.
By the time she arrived in Hollywood, Pinkett was mixing hard liquor with marijuana and ecstasy. She justified her drug use by telling herself what she was doing was less harmful than heroin or cocaine.
“I wasn’t doing things that I thought was addictive,” she explained.
Still, others in Hollywood, including actor and dancer Debbie Allen, began noticing the actor’s hard partying ways. Pinkett said:
“That’s why you have to trust the eyes around you. Because you won’t know. And that was the thing with me. Don’t think that people didn’t try to tap me on my shoulder. Don’t think that when I was at Debbie Allen’s throwing up all over her house … OK? That she wasn’t like, ‘Hey.'”
“But I had to reach my rock bottoms,” added the star.
She stated that she drank so much that she developed a tolerance to solely drinking. As her tolerance grew, Pinkett found herself indulging even more. So she started to combine wine or other alcohol with ecstasy and weed. She realized she was out of control.
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“Drinking red wine for me was like drinking glasses of water because I was used to that hard hit. I was drinking hard in high school, too, and when I got out here I was doing cocktails.I was taking ecstasy, alcohol, weed, In fact, I was having the time of my life.
I wasn’t doing things that I thought were addictive. But I would do those three together, that was my cocktail. My threshold became so high that I always took what I needed to get the feeling I wanted.
I always took ecstasy, weed, and alcohol at the same time so I can get there faster and I can keep the high going.
However things took a turn after I went to work high, it was a bad batch of ecstasy and I passed out. I had to get my ass together, get on that set and that was the last time,”
she said.
She further revealed she still has her triggers, such as dark liquor, but will only occasionally have a glass of wine.
“I think back on my life, like, I am a walking miracle, no doubt about that. People will not believe,”
she added.
Recall that the 49-year-old had previously admitted she had an addiction to porn and masturbation after she was taught to masturbate by her grandmother at the age of nine.