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‘We’ve Survived So Much’: Jada Pinkett Smith Opens Up About CPS Showing Up to Home Over Claims She Was ‘Abusing’ Willow Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith has no issues with being open and candid on her talk show. And she says the reason is that her famous family weathered the “storm” of having child protective services show up at their door.
Smith made the admission while at the Ham Yard Hotel in London hosting a screening of her Facebook Watch series “Red Table Talk” on August 1.
“We’ve been through so much as a family, it takes a lot to rock us,” she told the Daily Mail when talking about the worst thing that has ever happened to her clan. “Once you’ve survived having child protection services come to your house because someone called and said, ‘You’re abusing Willow, you’re not feeding her’ … When you’ve gone through crazy stuff like that, whatever you’ve spoke about at the ‘Red Table Talk,’ doesn’t mean anything, due to the storms you’ve survived off of that table [and being so open].
“We’ve survived so much as a family, so that’s one of the things I’m grateful for,” she added. “We hold it down together and give each other that freedom to speak our truth.”
In 2014, the Los Angeles Department of Children & Family Services showed up to the Smith family home. At issue was a photo showing a then-13-year-old Willow lying in bed with her shirtless friend, actor Moises Arias, who was 20 at the time, that was posted to his Tumblr page.
Radar Online reported the agency got involved after receiving an anonymous tip “about the welfare and safety of Willow, based on the contents of the photo.”
Smith and her husband, actor Will Smith, were cleared after CPS investigated.
A source with DCFS told Radar there was “no evidence presented that Willow has ever been in any danger around Moises, or that she has ever been physically or emotionally abused.” Additionally, they found Willow was “a very well adjusted, smart, and articulate young lady.”
Speaking to TMZ before the clearing, Jada said “there was nothing sexual about that picture or that situation. You guys are projecting your trash onto it. You’re acting like covert pedophiles, and that’s not cool.”
Article via AtlantaBlackStar
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Willow Smith Tells Her Grandmother She Desires Bisexual Bigamy
Article via Breitbart
Willow Smith – daughter of Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith – told her grandmother that she desires a sexual relationship with a woman and a man during the latest episode of the Facebook web series Red Table Talk.
The web series features the Smith family discussing a range of unconventional topics. The latest webisode revolved around Willow Smith’s desired “alternatives” to traditional marriage, involving the idea of a “throuple.” She told her family that her “ideal” relationship would involve both a man and a woman at the same time.
“Personally, male and female, that’s all I need,” Smith said to her mother’s initial dismay.
“Well, there it is … I think my stomach just [jumped],” Pinkett Smith said, before adding, “Listen, you know me Willow, whatever makes you happy.”
The younger Smith explained that she loves men and women “equally,” and because of that, she would “definitely want one man, one woman.”
She said she could embrace a polyfidelitous relationship, which is essentially a non-monogamous relationship that carries stricter standards about devotion, intimacy, and equality of the partners within the group.
“I feel like I could be polyfidelitous with those two people. I’m not the kind of person that is constantly looking for new sexual experiences,” she explained.
“I focus a lot on the emotional connection and I feel like if I were to find two people of different genders that I really connected with and we had a romantic and sexual connection, I don’t feel like I would feel the need to try to go find more,” she continued.
At one point in the episode, the family speaks to a throuple about the complexities of their relationship. The “Whip My Hair” singer was completely on board.
“That’s what humans are made for. Our brains are wired for connection and for community,” Smith said. “And when we cut off those connections of – like, ‘Oh no like I’m only supposed to love one person, like that’s the way it’s supposed to be,’– that can make some people really depressed and sad and not even know why that’s happening to them.”
Pinkett-Smith said she could understand polyamorous relationships to an extent, because she considered her relationship with Will Smith and his ex-wife, Sheree Zampino, a “non-sexual throuple.”
“[The reason polyamory is] not so foreign for me is that I’ve had a non-sexual throuple for years with Sheree,” said Pinkett Smith said. “When you have your husband that is taking care of another woman and spending time with another woman, it’s the same thing.”
Smith’s grandmother “Gammy” jumped into the conversation and noted her distaste of her granddaughter’s sexual desires.
“I would not be excited about that,” she said.
Smith would not hear it.
“Love is universal,” she said. “There’s so many different types of people in this world and so many people to learn from, and I don’t see the benefit in … not putting myself in a position to learn as much as I possibly can from as many people as I possibly can.”
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Jada Pinkett Smith Reveals She Initially Didn’t Want Jordyn Woods On ‘Red Table Talk’
Smith said she eventually changed her mind and saw the appearance as a chance to give Woods a safe space to open up.
Article via Essence
Turns out Jada Pinkett Smith almost passed on having Jordyn Woods appear on Red Table Talk.
The Facebook Watch series, hosted by Pinkett Smith, her daughter, Willow Smith, and her mom, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, sees the three tackling tough topics and given fans insight into their lives.
Woods appeared on the show after news broke that she had hooked up with Tristan Thompson, the father of Khloe Kardashian’s daughter, True.
“It actually wasn’t something I wanted to do because it was very close [to home],” Smith revealed to People. “But as time transpired, Jordyn was just like, ‘I really need you in this platform’ and Will [Smith] felt like it was supremely important. So I was like, ‘Okay, let’s do it.’
The episode broke records as the most viewed Facebook original episode in its first 24 hours.
Pinkett Smith—whose family has known Woods since she was a child thanks to Woods’s late father, John, working as a sound engineer on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air—said she wanted to give the 21-year-old “a platform to tell her story.”
“Jordyn really felt like it was the only safe place that she could do that interview,” Pinkett Smith said. “That was my intention honestly. I just wanted her to have a platform to tell her story. That’s it.”
“She’s a young beautiful woman inside and out and me having been a young girl, we sometimes get in situations that we don’t necessarily know how to handle,” the actress continued. “You just [try to] help young girls navigate through life, through difficult situations we’ve all come across.”
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Jada Pinkett Smith revealed her husband, Will, felt ‘abandoned’ by her efforts to gain more independence
Article via FOXNews
Actress Jada Pinkett Smith revealed that her husband, Will Smith, felt “abandoned” by her efforts to gain more independence in their marriage.
Pinkett Smith was joined by her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, as well as the couple’s therapist, Esther Perel, in the latest episode of her Facebook watch series “Red Table Talk.” In the episode, the group gets candid about mending a relationship after infidelity.
Pinkett Smith reveals that, while Will never cheated on her, there were “betrayals of the heart” that caused them to completely reassess their relationship and move forward outside the confines of traditional marriage rules.
“Specifically for me, in regards to redefining my marriage as a life partnership was the necessity of autonomy for myself and for Will, and finding the core of us that wanted to be together outside of the constraints of the traditional ideas of marriage because they weren’t working for us,” she shared.
In the midst of that self-reflection, Jada says she realized that she was living her life in service of Will’s happiness.
“Our whole life looked like his dream. I’m his energy source. That’s great, but I’ve got to create part of this life that is designed and looks like me,” she said.
However, when asked if Will took that news well, Pinkett Smith revealed that it initially caused further strain.
“He felt abandoned at first, he felt really abandoned,” she admitted. “That’s one of the reasons why I stayed in it the way I did for so long. Because I was so terrified. First of all, you never want to hurt the person that you love. You never want to create instability that way.”
“It has been one of the most excruciating processes of my life,” she continued. “I’ve wanted to personally break out of Will needing to be something for me because I felt like that was so unfair. And a lot of it had to do with my father issues. I just realized one day, ‘This man is not your father!”
The star concluded by noting that learning to trust Will to be the man that he is was the work she put in, while Will figured out a way to understand her need for independence.
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Jada Pinkett Smith: Daughter Willow is ‘curious’ about polyamory
Article via PageSix
Jada Pinkett Smith is very open about her marriage, family, and escapades…
The actress and host of “Red Table Talk” appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Wednesday and revealed the next topic to be discussed on her Facebook show.
Pinkett Smith, 47, told the late-night host that it was her daughter and co-host Willow Smith, 18, who actually brought the idea of exploring a relationship between a man and two women to the table.
Details on the show’s guests were scarce, but according to the “Girls Trip” star, it was Willow who found them on social media.
“It’s a throuple that Willow was actually following on Instagram,” Pinkett Smith explained. “That’s how it all came to be. She became very curious about this whole polyamory thing.”
Kimmel asked the “Set It Off” actress whether or not Willow’s curiosity might push her into engaging in a polyamorous relationship of her own in the future, to which Pinkett Smith said that while it is a possibility, she is unsure of her daughter’s preferences.
“Possibly. I don’t know,” she said. “Listen, she’s 18 — who the heck knows what’s going to go down?”
Fans of “Red Table Talk” often praise Pinkett Smith for her willingness to ask her guests tough questions. In March, she sat down with Kylie Jenner’s former best friend, Jordyn Woods, in what was her first interview since the public scandal involving her and NBA star Tristan Thompson, the father of Khloé Kardashian’s daughter.
The 30-minute Woods episode, which also featured a video call from Will Smith from the set of “Bad Boys for Life,” has been viewed more than 32 million times.
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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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Jada Pinkett-Smith Opens Up About Her Friendship With Tupac, Says She’s Angry Because She Thought He’d Still Be Here
“I’ve had a lot of loss. So many of my close friends gone. They didn’t make it to 30. They didn’t make it past 25. A lot of people talk about my relationship with Pac and figure that out. That was a huge loss in my life,” Pinkett-Smith said.
She continued, “Because he was one of those people I expected to be here. My upset is more anger because I feel like he left me. And I know that’s not true and it’s a very selfish way to think about it… I really did believe he’d be here for the long run. And when I think about it I still get really mad.”
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Will Smith Shuts Down Divorce Rumors
Last week the Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith divorce rumors surfaced again
Will Smith addresses the rumors for the umpteenth time on Facebook.
I swear if they ever break up, i’ll be so sad! i’m glad it’s nothing but rumors once again!!
Jada Pinkett Smith Talks About Tupac Shakur with Howard Stern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twjVhyIB-n0
I loved tupac & jada friendship so much, i’m glad she is speaking out about the depth of their relationship again!
pac had a lot of love for jada, that type of genuine love only comes once in a lifetime.
everytime i read this letter that he wrote her it makes me happy, once you find someone this genuine never let them go=)
