Answer Addiction

Tag: Red Table Talk

  • Demi Moore Says She Was Addicted To Ashton Kutcher

    Demi Moore Says She Was Addicted To Ashton Kutcher

    “I wanted to be something other than who I am. It was literally about giving my power away,” Moore revealed.

    Demi Moore spoke in-depth about her addictions to alcohol and her ex-husband Ashton Kutcher on a recent episode of the Facebook Watch series Red Table Talk.

    Moore, who was joined by her daughters Tallulah and Rumer, discussed how her rocky relationship with the That 70s Show star put her in a downward spiral.

    “The addiction and the co-dependency… like my addiction to Ashton — that was probably almost more devastating because it took me seriously away emotionally,” Moore said.

    Living With Ashton

    Moore’s youngest daughter Tallulah opened up about how sharing a home with her mother and Ashton during what would be the final years of their marriage left her feeling vulnerable and hurt.

    “Watching the behavior with Ashton, those years, because everyone had left the house and it was just me living there. I felt very forgotten and I feel like I developed and nurtured a narrative where she didn’t love me and I truly believed it,” the 25-year-old explained. “I know that she does, 100% but in that moment you’re hurt.”

    Red Table Talk host Jada Pinkett-Smith asked Tallulah about being estranged from her mother for three years following her relapse. 

    “What happened was, she relapsed when I was 9 and no one in my family spoke about it and I had no idea what was going on, she had been sober my entire childhood,” she said. “And then she drank and then I just knew that I was scared and that she was unsafe and there were many years of saying she was sober and she wasn’t and we couldn’t trust it. And all of the adults around us, in an effort to protect us, were protecting her. So if she wasn’t sober, they would tell her she was.”

    An Intervention For Tallulah

     

    Tallulah, who has been sober since 2014, says she began to spiral after her mother’s 2012 overdose. She described a scary incident where she lost consciousness after taking drugs and was discovered by her sister Scout.

    “I had taken a bunch of codeine, and I had done a bunch of cocaine that morning,” Tallulah revealed. Soonafter, her sisters held an intervention at Demi’s house. At the time she and her mother had not spoken for three years. The intervention brought them closer and Tallulah entered rehab.

    Prior to her relapse, Demi had been sober for most of her adulthood. Though she relapsed during their marriage, the actress doesn’t blame Kutcher for it.

    “I was great sober,” she said. “I wanted to be that girl. I made my own story up, that [Ashton] wanted somebody he could have wine with and do stuff. He’s not the cause of why I opened that door, I wanted to be something other than who I am. It was literally about giving my power away.”

    Demi details her journey to sobriety and her relationship with Kutcher in her new memoir, Inside Out. 

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Jada Pinkett Smith Confronts Will Smith About His Alcohol Consumption

    Jada Pinkett Smith Confronts Will Smith About His Alcohol Consumption

    Pinkett Smith put a spotlight on the “Gemini” star’s vacation drinking on a recent episode of her Facebook talk show, “Red Table Talk.”

    Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith discussed their alcohol use and letting loose on a recent episode of Red Table Talk.

    On the episode, which focused on nutrition and wellness, the Smiths were joined by their three kids, Trey, 26, Jaden, 21, and Willow, 18. The family talked about common health issues, including substance use. 

    Their Drinking Habits

    Jada reveals that she “doesn’t drink a lot of alcohol at all, any more” before asking her husband about his alcohol use. 

    “That’s my personal business,” he replied, seemingly joking. “I respect that it’s your show, but at the end of the day, this is a house that we share.” 

    Smith went on to reveal that he drinks once or twice a week. He also said that on vacation, it’s a bit more. “On vacation time… it was a lot,” Smith said. 

    The family also paused awkwardly when asked about marijuana use. 

    “Everyone knows we’re 420 friendly, let’s be real,” Willow said. 

    Jada has been open about her past alcohol abuse and her family’s history of addiction. On an earlier episode of Red Table Talk she said that she went cold turkey after realizing she was drinking too much. 

    “I remember reaching a rock bottom that time I was in the house by myself and I had those two bottles of wine and was going for the third bottle,” she said, according to Too Fab. ”And I was like, ‘Now hold up. You’re in this house by yourself going onto your third bottle of wine? You might have a problem.’”

    Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms

    It wasn’t the first time she had realized she was using unhealthy coping mechanisms. 

    “My sort of addictions jump, they jump around,” she said. “When I was younger, I definitely think I had a sex addiction of some kind. That everything could be fixed by sex. You know what I’m saying?”

    In the family that Jada grew up in, addiction was accepted as normal. Both parents lived with addiction and her father, Rob, eventually died from his addiction. All of that left Jada surprised to make it to adulthood. 

    “I grew up in a drug-infested neighborhood where you walk out each day and you just hope that you make it. I came from a war zone,” she said in 2012. “There was a possibility that I wouldn’t make it past 21—that was the reality. When I turned 40 (last year) it was a surreal moment because I had never imagined reaching 40.”

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Ayesha Curry, Willow Smith Open Up About Anxiety On "Red Table Talk"

    Ayesha Curry, Willow Smith Open Up About Anxiety On "Red Table Talk"

    Curry and Smith discussed how they manage their anxiety on the show’s latest episode.

    On the latest episode of Jada Pinkett Smith’s Facebook series Red Table Talk, Willow Smith opened up about her struggles with anxiety.

    The episode’s conversation was wide-ranging, but when the subject came to anxiety, Jada asked her daughter Willow, “What are some of the things that you do? What are some of your techniques to deal with your anxiety?”

    Willow responded, “Recently I have been, like, I just get really frustrated and I just feel like there is so much energy. I get frustrated and then in my head I feel manic.” So when anxiety hits, Willow says she “[drops] down” and starts doing push-ups.

    Chef Ayesha Curry, wife of NBA superstar Steph Curry who was a guest on the show, confessed that she suffers from anxiety as well. “I have anxiety too, really bad, to the point where I actually take medication for it. And I think it’s something that everybody, in some way, has moments. I think open communication and putting your feelings on the line, that helps me a lot, [and] just letting someone know, ‘I’m kind of having an anxiety attack now.’”

    Last year on Red Table Talk, Willow also opened up to her mother about practicing self-harm. She experienced fame at a young age with her debut single “Whip My Hair,” and she confessed, “I feel like I lost my sanity at one point. It was after that whole ‘Whip My Hair’ thing and I had just stopped doing singing lessons and I was kind of just in this gray area of, ‘Who am I? Do I have a purpose? Is there anything I can do besides this?’ And after all of that kind of settled down and it was like a kind of lull, I was listening to a lot of dark music. It was just so crazy, and I plunged into this black hole, and I was, like, cutting myself.”

    It was a secret she apparently kept from her mother, and Willow added, “I never talk about it because it was a short, weird point in my life. But you have to pull yourself out of it.”

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Jada Pinkett Smith Gets Candid About Father's Addiction Struggles

    Jada Pinkett Smith Gets Candid About Father's Addiction Struggles

    “Once he did get sober, he was really a gentle soul. Now that I’m older, I have so much more compassion in knowing what he had gone through,” said Jada Pinkett Smith about her late father.

    Actress Jada Pinkett Smith opened up last week with tough memories about her father and his struggle with addiction before his 2010 death from a drug overdose, according to USA Today.

    Joined by her mother, daughter and half-brother Caleeb, Pinkett Smith delved into the “shared source of pain” during her Facebook Watch show Red Table Talk, which drew more than 5 million views in less than a week. 

    “He told me at 7, ‘I can’t be your father. I’m a criminal, I’m an addict and that’s just what it is,’” the 47-year-old Matrix actress said. Growing up, she said, Robsol Pinkett Jr.’s addiction was a source of resentment for the rest of the family.

    “We had that feeling like we had to be responsible for him,” Pinkett Smith said, “but he never had to be responsible for us, and that was a hard pill for me to swallow.”

    For years, the family weathered his abusive behavior, even when at times he was “typically drunk,” Pinkett Smith said. Eventually, though, he sobered up. 

    “Once he did get sober, he was really a gentle soul,” she said. “Now that I’m older, I have so much more compassion in knowing what he had gone through.”

    Then, just before his death, the actress and her father got in a fight.

    “The most difficult part of him dying like that is because he and I had had a horrendous fight when I found out that he relapsed,” she said. “I was like, ‘I don’t owe you nothing. You didn’t do shit for me, you didn’t do shit for Caleeb. I don’t owe you nothing.’ It was one of those.”

    It was only after he died that Pinkett Smith and her siblings were able to find forgiveness. 

    “I had the most startling realization that Rob’s life wasn’t about him being my father,” she said. “Rob’s life was about Rob being on his journey, and it just so happened along the way that he gave me life.”

    It was an “aha” moment, she said.

    “I realized he was not born to be my dad,” she explained. “That wasn’t the only thing he was here to do. He’s a person first, with his own journey.”

    View the original article at thefix.com