Jada Pinkett Smith Opens Up About Jaden’s Emancipation at 15: 'He Wanted Out, and I Understood That'
CelebritiesDirt BagDuring the most recent episode of her Facebook talk show Red Table Talk (I know, but it’s good), Jada Pinkett Smith opened up about the moment her son Jaden decided he was done living at home. It was 2016, and he was 15.
“One thing that I’ve learned is that every child need something different. At 15 years old, Jaden, and I remember this day specifically, it’s probably one of the most heartbreaking moments of my life. You got to a point where you told me straight up, you were like, ‘Mom, I have to leave here to live my life.’ And I remember thinking to myself—as devastated as I was—I was like, ‘He’s right. The time is now. He’s 15. It’s time for him to leave the house.’”
At this point, Jada’s mom Adrienne Banfield-Jones chimes in. “And I would have never agreed with that,” she says. But Jada keeps going.