Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk has allowed the actress to get candid about many areas of her life, and her most recent episode is no different. Opening up about her past struggles with alcohol and drugs, she discussed with her mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris and daughter Willow Smith about her time spent as a “weekend party girl,” she revealed that she once passed out on the set of The Nutty Professor after taking a “bad batch of ecstasy.”
“Once I was going for that third bottle of wine, I said, ‘You’ve got a problem,'” Pinkett-Smith said about struggling with alcohol. When asked if her substance struggles ever impacted her work, she continued on Red Table Talk, “I had one incident. That was an eye-opening incident for me as well. I had one incident on The Nutty Professor where I passed out,” adding that it happened in a makeup trailer on set.
In 1996, Pinkett Smith played the leading role of Carla Purty in The Nutty Professor, the love interest of scientist Sherman Klump and his alter ego Buddy Love, both played by Eddie Murphy.
“I passed out. I went to work high, and it was a bad batch of ecstasy,” the Set It Off star continued. “And I passed out. And I told everybody that I had taken — I must’ve had old medication in a vitamin bottle. But I’ll tell you what I did though, got my ass together and got on that set. That was the last time.”
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Pinkett Smith then shared that she tried to warn her children about the dangers of drugs, mostly due to growing up and seeing her mother’s own heroin addiction. “I grew up with my mother who was a heroin addict, and still it didn’t sink into me that any mind-altering substance, I don’t care what it is, all y’all young people talking about, ‘Weed is from the earth,” And I’m like this. It’s a gate,” she said.
