Jada Pinkett Smith recently laid her entire life bare ever since she released her memoir Worthy, candidly discussing her upbringing, career, and life with her estranged husband Will Smith via Hello Magazine.
On the November 28th edition of The Drew Barrymore Show, the 52-year-old bestselling author and actress spoke with the TV host about her book and the implications it had on her life.
It has been noted that she openly spoke about her childhood and difficult early life, being raised by her mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris, an absent father who battled addiction, and an unstable home.
Drew shared her own experience of growing up with a father, famous actor John Drew Barrymore, who was an addict, saying: “That wasn’t the bond I expected to have with you.”
She continued: “You have kids, and they’re being brought up in a much more protected way. So are mine,” referring to Jada’s two children with Will, Jaden, 25, and Willow, 23.
Jada responded: “I’ve had to learn how to listen, because they are living a life that I don’t know. I can relate more to the upbringing of their cousins than them necessarily, because I didn’t grow up in a lifestyle like that. So I’ve had to learn.”
Jada and Will have remained a united front after revealing that they had quietly separated in 2016, although have no intention of legally divorcing. The couple even spent Thanksgiving together with their children, including Will’s son from his first marriage Trey, plus other loved ones.
In a recent conversation with Fearne Cotton on the Happy Place podcast, the actress revealed what it was about her partner that created that romantic attraction in the first place, calling him “all sky.”
She stated: “I saw in him that he is all sky, happy. He’s looking at the glass as half full and I’m looking at it half empty. Even to this day…he’s just always looking for a laugh.”
