According to the DailyMail Jada Pinkett Smith’s eldest child, Jaden, revealed his mother introduced their whole family to psychedelic drugs.
While speaking at the Psychedelic Science conference in Denver this week, the 24-year-old actor raved about how using psychedelics improved his relationship with loved ones and increased his empathy for others.
‘I think it was my mom, actually, that was really the first one to make that step for the family,’ he revealed. ‘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.’
Jaden went on to claim that psychedelics had a ‘profound’ impact on his relationship with his sister Willow Smith, 22, and half-brother Trey Smith, 30, who his father Will Smith shares with ex-wife, Sheree Zampino.
‘Siblings can argue so much and fight so much, and lord knows me and my siblings have done so much of that in the past,’ the Entergalactic star said, according to USA Today.
‘But the level of love and empathy that I can feel for them inside of the (psychedelic) experiences and outside of the experiences has been something that’s profound and beautiful.’
Jaden explained that psychedelics helps him and his relatives ‘open up’ their minds and ‘get out of the old ways of thinking that got us into lots of these arguments and open it up so that it just releases and makes room for you to work it out.’
Jaden did not specify what kind of psychedelics that his family uses, but previously discussed using magic mushrooms last year.
‘I believe that mushrooms are going to help us expand consciousness. The collection is not just clothes to sell,’ he told Mr Porter Journal in 2022.
He added: ‘It’s loaded with spiritual experiences and mystical states. We’re just making clothes that can go along with people’s journeys.’
In 2019, Jada revealed she revealed she used the drug ecstasy amid a battle with depression.
‘In my depression, using ecstasy, drinking a whole lot, you know, and smoking a bunch of weed and trying to just find some peace in my mind. It’s like, I knew [what] I was doing – I was doing ecstasy because I wanted to party,’ she said during an episode of Red Table Talk.
The Gotham actress said that other substances were in the mix during the turbulent time in her life.
‘I was doing ecstasy, weed and a bottle of Courvoisier because I wanted to get lit,’ said Jada. ‘I wasn’t making the connection, and I knew … I knew I was on the course of addiction. I was very clear about it.’
Jada said that that she also coped with a nervous breakdown and thoughts of suicide in the early days of her career.
‘I had gotten to LA and gotten a certain amount of success and realized that that wasn’t the answer – it wasn’t what was going to make everything okay,’ she said, adding that the success ‘actually made [things] worse.
‘I was extremely suicidal, I had a complete emotional collapse.’
Jada said at that the time she felt ‘completely and utterly out of control,’ adding, ‘I don’t even think at that particular time I understood what I was going through.
‘I was severely depressed, severely. And that was something that I battled with for years. Waking up in the morning was like the worst part of the day,’ the star recalled.
Two years ago, on her Facebook Watch series, Jada opened up about being a hard drinker and drinking wine ‘like Kool-Aid.’
‘I was a brown liquor drinker – rum – and also vodka. I was a hard liquor drinker. Like, I could drink almost anybody under the table,’ said the Girls Trip actress said.
