Jada Pinkett Smith admits she was worried about daughter Willow’s ‘excessive weed smoking’ and is ‘proud’ the teen decided to quit
Jada Pinkett Smith and family have had some star-studded guests on their Facebook Watch talk show Red Table Talk.
But with most of Hollywood in self-quarantine, Jada, daughter Willow and mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones have gotten creative with their programming.
In this week’s episode, they discussed addiction amid the pandemic, and Jada admitted that she was worried about Willow’s ‘excessive weed smoking.’
Mama bear: In this week’s addiction-themed episode of the Red Table Talk, Jada Pinkett Smith admitted that she was worried about daughter Willow’s ‘excessive weed smoking’
Jada, 48, told her daughter: ‘Willow, I’m really proud of you as well, because you have decided to curb your excessive weed smoking.’
The ladies shared a laugh as Willow, 19, said: ‘You always were telling me, you’d be like, “Gotta stop that smoking.”‘
Her mother responded: ‘Only because as your mother, I could see the effects of it that you couldn’t.’
Adrienne, 66, chimed in: ‘And for me, it was like with the history that we have in our family it was driving me crazy.’
Proud mom: Jada, 48, told her daughter: ‘Willow, I’m really proud of you as well, because you have decided to curb your excessive weed smoking’
Three months: Willow revealed: ‘I haven’t been smoking marijuana for three months, specifically THC’
Clean and sober: The conversation was sparked by Adrienne’s own addiction to heroin, revealing that she’s in her 30th year of recovery
The conversation was sparked by Adrienne’s own addiction to heroin, revealing that she’s in her 30th year of recovery.
Willow revealed: ‘I haven’t been smoking marijuana for three months, specifically THC.’
‘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…’
‘Drifted away,’ Adrienne finished her sentence, after revealing: ‘It’s been a long time since I’ve had to rely on going to meetings daily. The quarantine, believe it or not, put me back in touch with going to meetings.’
Namaste vibes: Willow revealed that she’s replaced the vice with a much healthier alternative: ‘I know it sounds so cheesy but around the time I stopped smoking I started doing a lot of yoga’
No anxiety: She added: ‘I’m less anxious, which is… who would have thought? That’s ridiculous. I never understood that smoking would actually make me more anxious’
Willow revealed that she’s replaced the vice with a much healthier alternative: ‘I know it sounds so cheesy but around the time I stopped smoking I started doing a lot of yoga. 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?”’
She added: ‘I’m less anxious, which is… who would have thought? That’s ridiculous. I never understood that smoking would actually make me more anxious.’
Since quitting, she’s explored the eight stages of that anxiety through performance art, locking herself in a glass box for 24 hours last month at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
Out of the box: She explored the eight stages of that anxiety through performance art, locking herself in a glass box for 24 hours last month at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles