“WORTHY” AUTHOR JADA PINKETT SMITH  
AIR DATE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH

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Jada Pinkett Smith on What Pulled Quotes She’d Want to Represent Her

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Drew: If you were to get pulled quotes and you could design them out there, what would yours say?

Jada: Well ,the first one would probably say, ‘Everybody should be responsible for their own actions. No one should be blamed for what someone else does…you never know someone just by a public persona.’ Those would be the quotes that I would have out there, but our media is what it is and you know all about that. But it’s okay.

Drew: I’ve been on the gynecological table of life since birth. My whole life.

Jada: I know you have. But it’s part of our industry and it comes with the territory and there’s a lot of learning there as well. I’m really grateful for the opportunity to heal my own sense of self-judgment, because at the end of the day when you have all of this judgment about you it makes you really have to look at yourself and cure your own self-judgment, because when you feel good about yourself and you know who you are, it doesn’t matter.

Jada & Drew on the Similar Parental Experiences They Shared Growing Up

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Drew: There’s a Carl Jung philosophy about every person has a story and a fully realized self….you also have what’s called a shadow in this philosophy. It’s the person inside that we are born with and lives alongside us our whole lives and we are trying to master that relationship and take care of them because they are us. And you talked about that you realized in that moment that he had not healed his shadow.

Jada: And I had known that just in me dealing with my own. I had been dealing with my own since I came across a really fierce shadow. I talk about it in the book, at forty when I was really suicidal and I came across my shadow in a really intense way of having to deal with those thoughts of self-hatred and really having to grapple with that.

Drew: Why did you have this self-hatred, if people look out you have this big family and big life so everything should be great, but it isn’t.

Jada: Yeah I think that really started from my childhood and really, being the child of two addicts, it’s no fault of my parents because they had their own challenges to deal with and they had their own illness.

Drew: In fact there’s a conversation you had with your father that I had with mine as well, which is, ‘I cant be a father.’

Jada:…It took me awhile to get to that point with my father, because when he told me I was seven…

Jada & Drew on Their Trauma Filled Childhoods Skewing Their Sense of Reality

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Drew: The thing with the Will thing and the slap, you said in the book, ‘There’s no blood, there’s no guns,’ and I had the moment where I thought do you and I have such a skewed sense of reality that’s been put on such a fast track due to our upbringing that unless it’s really crazy we don’t consider it that crazy?

Jada: I think for me, and I learned this in trauma therapy, even in understanding what trauma is, because when you’ve seen a level of violence on a daily basis or you’ve seen a certain level of reality that’s you’re norm, so when other people see things and that’s not their norm it’s kind of like, ‘Oh okay.’

Drew: That’s exactly what I’m getting at. You were around guns, you were around violence, you dealt drugs. None of these things I knew about you.

Jada: Yeah well that’s not something that you just…you know what I mean. I needed to wait until I could actually tell the story and give some context because just talking about it you’re like, ‘Woah woah hold up take me back,’ so…

Drew: But you weren’t doing them you were just dealing them. Whereas your mom and dad were doing them.

Jada: Were using them yeah.

Drew: My father was a drug addict too which I think was what led to the homelessness.

Jada: My father had bouts of that as well.

Jada on Staying Together Forever with Will

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Drew:…and whether you’re in many different evolutions of your story, I feel like maybe you’re in his shadow, separated in a way in this book, whether they stay together forever or not, sounds like you’re staying together.

Jada: We’re staying together forever. I tried. We tried…

Jada Plays Behind The Scenes and Dishes on “A Different World” Cast Being Like Family and “Girls Trip” Involving a Lot of Improv

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Drew:…This first photo is from ‘A Different World.’ What do you think when you see this picture?

Jada: All I see is Willow and Jaden. My daughter and my son. I’m like, ‘Oh my goodness Willow does look like me a little bit. She doesn’t just look like her dad.’

Drew: What is something that took place on that set that we don’t know about.

Jada: It was such a family. They were all kind of like my big brother, my big sisters because I was the youngest one. I feel like I had a lot of mentors.

Drew:…Okay my favorite movie, ‘Girls Trip.’

Jada: We had a good time on that movie. I would say we did a lot of improving on that movie and it would always be jumped off by Tiffany. Tiffany was always coming up with something wild to do in the scene and we would play off of her.

Drew: Do you think that there would be a ‘Girls Trip 2?’

Jada: I mean look they keep talking about it so we’ll see. It would be lovely to do.