Jada Pinkett Smith has opened up about her past issues with drugs and alcohol on Red Table Talk, with the actress calling herself a “walking miracle” for kicking her addictions.
Jada revealed in the candid chat that she used to combine wine or other alcohol with ecstasy and weed after she developed a tolerance to alcohol.
“Drinking red wine for me was like drinking glasses of water,” she shared on Facebook Watch’s Red Table Talk. “Because I’m used to that hard hit. I was drinking hard in high school, too, and when I got out here I was doing cocktails. So, ecstasy, alcohol, weed. Let me tell you, I was having myself a little ball.
“I wasn’t doing things that I thought were addictive,” she continued.
“But I would do those three together, that was my cocktail. Your threshold becomes so high that what it takes for you to get to the place you need to get to — it’ll take me two bottles to get to … Okay, if I do ecstasy, weed and alcohol at the same time I’m gonna get there faster and I can keep the high going.”
Her drug and alcohol abuse became so problematic, that Jada revealed that it lead to a major health scare during filming for 1996’s The Nutty Professor, which famously starred Eddie Murphy.
“I went to work high and it was a bad batch of ecstasy,” she recalled. “And I passed out and I told everybody that I must have had old medication in a vitamin bottle. But I’ll tell you what I did, though. I got my ass together and got on that set. That was the last time.”
These days, Jada has managed to get a handle on her vices, admitting that while dark liquors are a trigger for her, she still allows herself the odd glass of wine.
“I think back on my life, like, I am a walking miracle, no doubt about that,” she said. “People will not believe.”
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