On the latest episode of Jada Pinkett Smiths series Red Table Talk, she sat down with her mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones and her daughter Willow Smith to talk about surviving loss.
While revealing their biggest losses, Willow Smith revealed at one point she lost her sanity.
Willow said, I honestly felt like I lost my sanity at one point. It was after that whole Whip My Hair thing and I had just stopped doing singing lessons and I was kind of just in this gray area of, Who am I? Do I have a purpose? Is there anything I can do besides this?
She continued, After the tour and the promotion and all of that, they wanted me to finish my album, and I was like, Im not going to do that.
After all of that kind of settled down and it was like a kind of lull, I was just listening to a lot of dark music. It was just so crazy and I was plunged into this black hole, and I was cutting myself.
Shocking both her mother and grandmother, she revealed she used to cut herself on her wrist.
I felt like I was experiencing so much emotional pain, but my physical circumstances werent reflecting that. But one night I was like this is actually psychotic, and after that, I just stopped.
Willow’s “Whip My Hair” record released back in 2010.
While preparing for the episode, Jada received a call about a loss of a friend and also touched on the loss of Tupac Shakur.
We’re glad that Willow is in a better place today.
Check out the full episode below:
