The actor claimed that his mother introduced the family to plant medicine and has previously discussed using psychedelics to treat her depression.
Jada Pinkett Smith, according to Jaden Smith, exposed her family to psychedelic drugs.
According to a story from Entertainment Tonight, the actor made the remark during his lecture at the Psychedelic Science conference on Friday in Denver.
Jaden credited his mother with being the first person in the family to take that step when it came to his introduction to the still-illegal subset of narcotics. “It was just her for a really, really long time, and then eventually it just trickled and evolved, and everybody found it in their own ways.”
However, did she truly expose her son—as well as the rest of the family—to psychedelics?
When the actress’s upcoming autobiography, Worthy, is published on October 17, you’ll learn the answer.
When asked about her son’s allegations, Pinkett Smith added, “It all gets answered in the book.”
Pinkett Smith also pledges to answer “everything” you’ve ever questioned about her family.
“I believe a lot of assumptions have been made. And what about that? Quite rightly so. Regarding the self-defeating narrative in which I have taken part,” she said, “I have to take ownership of that.
“I really go into great detail about all of that in the book.”
Regarding her own use of psychedelics, Pinkett Smith, 51, has previously stated that she used herbal remedies to treat her sadness.
The confession was made on her Red Table Talk show in November 2021.
“I battled depression for a very long time. The benefit of plant medicine is that it not only makes you feel better but also addresses the underlying causes of your condition,” according to Pinkett Smith.
The Queen Cleopatra narrator continued by claiming that she had learned about plant medicine for the first time ten years earlier and that the practice had “knocked [depression] out” of her.
Adrienne Banfield-Norris, the mother of Pinkett Smith, revealed in the same episode that she had pondered using the psychedelic herb Ayahuasca to deal with “this deep low self-esteem issue that I have.”
“It doesn’t seem to be anything my parents did or didn’t do for me,” she continued. “Just because I was born that way, I suppose. However, it prevents me from progressing in several areas of my life, and that was the only time I thought of taking ayahuasca.”
Banfield-Norris said, “There’s just this block that I cannot figure out,” during the talk with Smith, her grandson. “I just can’t figure out why I always feel like I’m not good enough and how I got there,” said the speaker.
Regarding his use, Smith, 24, claimed that psychedelics enabled him to develop “love and empathy” for his family, notably for siblings Willow, 22, and half-brother Trey, 30, whom his father Will Smith is related to through his ex-girlfriend Sheree Zampino.
“Siblings can fight and argue so much, and Lord knows me and my siblings have done so much of that in the past,” the “Icon” performer remarked. “But the level of love and empathy that I can feel for them both inside and outside of the [psychedelic] experiences has been something that’s profound and beautiful.”
His assertions are supported by a 2017 study published in the International Journal of Neuopsychopharmacology, which discovered that the hallucinogenic substance psilocybin “significantly increased emotional…empathy.”
