As clips from various interviews conducted amid her book tour continue to surface, we are now learning how Jada Pinkett Smith is crediting her and Will Smith‘s son Jaden Smith with introducing her to psychedelics. Jada says the magical mushrooms stopped her from executing a thoroughly planned suicide attempt.
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While speaking with People for her recent cover story, Jada said she “was in so much pain [due to] a massive amount of depression when she turned 40 in 2011. She said her poor mental state had her seriously contemplating suicide.
Jada added, “I couldn’t figure a way out besides death. So I made a plan. [The voices were telling me] ‘Just kill yourself. You’re not worth anything, you ain’t sh*t.’ I started looking for places, cliffs where I could have an accident because I didn’t want my kids to think that their mother had committed suicide.”
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Jada then reveals that her now-25-year-old son Jaden Smith, at the time, witnessed her suffering and while they were having a mother-son conversation in the kitchen, he introduced her to the idea of taking psychedelics. Specifically, he mentioned ayahuasca, which is a plant-based psychedelic drug.
Jada recalled, “I’ve learned how to tune into each one of them and understand their superpowers. And so when Jaden came to me that day and he’s like, ‘Mom, you got to hear this. My friend’s dad, he had this experience. I need you to come in here and listen.’ I’m like, ‘I’m there. What is it?’ And it opened up a whole new world of healing that I’m so grateful for.”
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Jada also revealed that her entire family has taken part in the nauseating yet cathartic hallucinogenic tea ceremony, which is usually led by a shaman in South America. Jada claimed, “Ayahuasca helped me, it gave me a new intimate relationship with myself that I had never had before. The suicidal thoughts completely went away.”
Before experimenting with psychedelics, Jada recalled dealing with depression and wanting to attempt suicide in her youth, sometime before she met her estranged husband Will Smith in 1994 on the set of the NBC sitcom ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.’
Jada said to treat her symptoms before Will, she would take Prozac. She said, “Once I met Will, I completely abandoned my mental health. I was so intoxicated by him and our dynamic. I really felt like I’m cured. He became the drug.”
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