Jada Pinkett Smith: ‘I had an unhealthy relationship to porn’
Jada Pinkett Smith is opening up about once having a problematic relationship with pornography.
The 47-year-old actress shared on “Red Table Talk,” her Facebook Watch talk show, that she “had a little porn addiction” in the past.
“I wasn’t in a relationship when I had a porn addiction, believe it or not, thank goodness,” she told her co-hosts, daughter, Willow Smith, and mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones.
She continued, “I actually feel like I was using ‘addiction’ a little lightly. And maybe I’ll say now that I had an unhealthy relationship to porn at one point in my life where I was trying to practice abstinence.”
Pinkett Smith, who has been married to actor Will Smith for nearly 22 years, said she resorted to outside stimulation because she felt an “emptiness,” adding that porn gave her “false expectations” when it came to interacting with real partners.
In the more-than-20-minute episode, Pinkett Smith and her family discussed how there is a stigma around enjoying porn, but also how addiction to it can be detrimental to a person’s career and personal relationships.
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