Jada Pinkett Smith admits she can be 'a vicious one' if rubbed the wrong way... but says she's getting better with age
Jada Pinkett Smith says her ego can make her 'vicious.'
The 47-year-old actress, who is married to Will Smith, said she's done some 'unloving things' in the past because she has a 'mean' side to her.
She opened up to her 18-year-old daughter Willow on their Facebook Watch series Red Table Talk, saying: 'I've done some very unloving things to people that I love because of my fear and my ego because once my ego kicks in, we in trouble. That Jada, baby, she ain't cute. She's a vicious one and she's mean
Candid: Jada Pinkett Smith, 47, says she's done some 'unloving things' in the past because she has a 'mean' side to her in the latest episode of her Facebook Watch series, Red Table Talk
The Girls Trip star, who also appears with her mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris, 65, on the chat series, explained how she's matured emotionally as she's grown older and more able to process her emotions.
'Even in my pain, I've had to learn to be more open, more honest, more vulnerable,' she said. 'Not go to the space of ego and lay it down.
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'Will and I had a conversation recently that love and fear are fraternal twins. Any time you're trying to love on a deep level, you'll come up against the vicious face of fear.'
Jada has spoken about her relationship with Will - who she married in 1997 - as she previously said there had been a 'deterioration.'
Inevitable: Jada said that 'anytime you're trying to love on a deep level, you'll come up against the vicious face of fear'
All in the family: Jada appears on the Facebook Watch show with her mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris, 65, and daughter Willow Smith, 18
The Gotham actress explained: 'Let me tell you, nobody talks about the sacrifice, the deterioration and the dissolving of fantasies. You, right now, have in your mind your perfect woman. And when you find that woman, she's gonna be a goddess to you.
'We fall in love with the goddess, or the god, within that person, and then when we actually meet the human being, then we gotta learn how to love that one.'
Jada and Will, who are also parents to 20-year-old son Jaden, said that she believes true love is 'unconditional.'
'It has to be because we are all too flawed,' she said. 'No matter how much work we do - it never ends.'
Introspective: Jada said that she's 'done some very unloving things to people' who she loves
