Jada Pinkett Smith reveals that lack of protection is the “biggest wound” that emerges in her relationship

Jada Pinkett Smith is open about the common thread she found in her relationship. In this exclusive clip from Wednesday’s Red Table Talk, Pinkett Smith and her co-sponsor Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield Norris are mother hanger writers for a conversation about mother-daughter dynamics. Sit with Kelly McDaniel. It reveals that the most common “biggest wound” in her personal relationship is the lack of protection.

“I was just unprotected. That’s my biggest scar in all my relationships,” says Pinkett Smith. “And I searched [the] It’s the crazy kind of protection, and I don’t really understand what’s safe and what’s not. “

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“I’m very protective or very defensive,” she adds.

It’s what Banfield Norris believes began when her mother, Pinkett Smith’s safe and secure person, died when the “Matrix” actress died when she was in middle school.

“And I’ll tell you why. The environment. It was my addiction. She found her safety through my mother,” explains Banfield-Norris. “But when Mom died, that was when my addiction really started.”

“She died when I was still in junior high school. I’m 11 or 12 years old,” says Pinkett Smith.

It was a crucial moment for the whole family and influenced Pinkett Smith’s future reassurance.

“It’s a really important time to feel safe and secure,” continues Banfield-Norris. “And that’s when your femininity begins,” Smith says.

“And that’s when she loses her safety,” Vanfield-Norris adds. “My mother was her backbone.”

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After her grandmother died, Pinkett Smith said she no longer felt safe and ended up looking for it in the world.

“Her house was safe,” says Pinkett Smith. “So, when she was gone, her safety was gone, so I went into the world and made my own safety, and it was crazy.”

Watch their entire conversation about mother-daughter relationships as “Red Table Talk” is streamed on Facebook Watch on Wednesday, May 25th at 9am (Pacific Standard Time) / 12pm (Eastern Standard Time).