Jada Pinkett Smith Responds After Son Jaden Says She Introduced Their Family To Psychedelic Drugs

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Jada Pinkett Smith is speaking retired connected her son, Jaden Smith‘s, assertion that she introduced psychedelic drugs to their family — successful a fewer months. “It each gets answered successful the book,” Jada, 51, told PEOPLE on Friday, June 30, portion discussing her upcoming Oct. 17 memoir, Worthy. Until then, she is holding her tongue.

Jaden, 24, made the assertion earlier this week astatine Denver’s Psychedelic Science convention, according to Entertainment Tonight. “I deliberation it was my mom, actually, that was truly the archetypal 1 to marque that measurement for the family,” helium recalled of his archetypal experiences with psychedelics. “It was conscionable her for a really, truly agelong clip and past yet it conscionable trickled and evolved, and everybody recovered it successful their ain ways.”

Jada Pinkett Smith and Jaden Smith get astatine the U.S. movie premiere of ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ successful 2021 (Photo: Christopher Victorio/imageSPACE/Shutterstock)

Jaden besides said his experimentation with psychedelic drugs helped him turn a stronger enslaved with his siblings, Willow, 22, and half-brother Trey, 30. “Siblings tin reason truthful overmuch and combat truthful much, and lord knows maine and my siblings person done truthful overmuch of that successful the past,” helium admitted. “But the level of emotion and empathy that I tin consciousness for them wrong of the [psychedelic] experiences and extracurricular of the experiences has been thing that’s profound and beautiful.”

Jada antecedently revealed she utilized psychedelics to easiness her slump earlier she started therapy and got connected medicine during a Nov. 2021 occurrence of Red Table Talk, which aired connected Facebook earlier getting canceled successful April. “It’s not palmy for everybody. I struggled with slump for truthful long. And the happening astir the works medicine is it helps you consciousness amended but besides solves the problems of however you got determination successful the archetypal place,” she noted. Meanwhile, Jaden said helium began utilizing psychedelics retired of curiosity and said his usage of the drugs helped him spot beyond his ego.

Trey Smith, Willow Smith, Jaden Smith, Will Smith, and Jada Pinkett Smith be Apple’s premiere of ‘Emancipation’ successful 2022 (Photo: Eric Charbonneau/Shutterstock)

As for her memoir, the Matrix prima said she does not permission a chromatic unturned. “I deliberation radical person made a batch of assumptions. And you cognize what? Rightfully so,” she debated to PEOPLE. “I person to instrumentality ownership of that, successful regards to the communicative that I’ve participated in, the falsehoods astir myself. In the publication I truly explicate each of that extensively.”

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