Jada Pinkett Smith Bares Her Heart On Red Table Talk

On Red Table Talk this week, the “Mother Hunger” author Kelly McDaniel joined Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris for a heated discussion on mother-daughter relationship.

During the episode, the mom-of-two talked about attributes mothers display towards their daughters that can be damaging.

Jada Pinkett Smith – Talks Motherhood And Getting Past Mom Rage

PEOPLE exclusively shared details of a clip from this week’s episode of Facebook Watch’s Red Table Talk. The episode, titled “How Destructive Mothers Damage Their Daughters: Could This Be You?”, saw Jada, her daughter Willow, and mom Adrienne Banfield-Norris talk about parenting and growing up.

Joining the table for the emotional discussion was Kelly McDaniel — author of the 2021 book “Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance”. Jada, Gammy and Willow each took turns to talk about how their mothers impacted their lives for the brand new episode.

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Along the way, entertainment reporter Tanika Ray popped in to to share how a strained relationship caused her to have destructive behaviors.

In the clip, Jada, 50, recalls her childhood, saying, “I had to, like, deal with a lot of stressful adult things at a young age. I didn’t have the ability to deal with the emotions that were coming with it. I just had to buck up.”

“So those women you see that you think are so strong, there’s this terrified little girl underneath. And that’s me,” the “Gotham City” actress emotionally added, fighting tears. Willow, 21, sympathized, saying “oh, mommy”, before adding: “This is why we do the work.”

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Jada Pinkett Smith – On Understanding Willow’s Feelings Irrespective Of The Differences In Upbringing

Speaking on a previous Red Table Talk, Jada said that it took her “a long time to understand” Willow’s anxiety.

She continued at the time, “I had a really difficult time relating, because, two things — her lifestyle and how she was brought up very different than mine — I don’t know what it’s like to be a child under hot lights. And then just, really not knowing how to comfort her, not knowing what help she needed, not understanding the behavior.”

She explained that when she was growing up, she experienced anxiety in the form of chewing “my fingernails down to the cuticles”, but people misplaced the habit at the time, instead taking it that she’s just a “nail biter”.

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