Jada Smith opened up on the struggles of her tough upbringing in her childhood.This approach to life held her back and left her unable to fully process the pressures of life and she says it has resulted in her having a ‘terrified little girl’ trapped within her.
American actress and talk show host Jada Pinkett Smith broke down in tears on her latest Red Table Talk show as she reflected on the ‘stiff upper lip’ attitude she was raised to live with as a child.
The 51-year-old actress opened up about her own early life and the confusing feelings she felt as a child as she ‘bottled up’ what she was feeling.
Jada told PopSugar that her mom, Adrienne Banfield Norris gave birth to her at a very young age. The mother-daughter duo also revealed in an early episode of Red Table Talk that Norris had been a heroin addict for most of her childhood.
“I think I didn’t find out my mother was addicted to heroin until I was in my teens I could tell when my mother was high. She couldn’t make it on time to pick me up from school. Or, she’s nodding off, falling asleep in the middle of something. You just realize, oh that’s not
being tired. That is like, a drug problem,” she said.
Jada thinks this approach to life held her back and left her unable to fully process the pressures of life and she says it has resulted in her having a ‘terrified little girl’ trapped within her.
The mum of two hosts an episode How Destructive Mothers Damage Their Daughters, Could This Be You? Alongside her mother Banfield-Norris, author Kelly McDaniel and daughter Willow as they sought out mother-daughter issues, and it’s during this conversation when Jada grows emotional after revealing that growing up fast and dealing with adversity so young is what has led her to feel like a ‘terrified little girl’.
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Thankfully Jada and her mom have a close relationship today. Banfield Norris even travelled with her daughter more than once to help take care of her kids something that Jada expressed gratitude for on the show, telling her mom, “It helped me so much, because if I didn’t have you, I wouldn’t have been able to do the matrix. I wouldn’t have been able to keep working. You went with me everywhere. And because of you, I was able to have my children with me. So, thank you.”
