Pinkett Smith recalled passing out on the set of the 1996 comedy 'The Nutty Professor.'
"I went to work high and it was a bad batch of ecstasy. And I passed out and I told everybody that I must have had old medication in a vitamin bottle," she continued, calling the experience"eye-opening."
The"Girls Trip" star described herself at that time of her life as a"weekend party girl." However, her pattern of overindulging, she said, dated back as far as high school."I could drink almost anybody under the table," she recalled.was mixing hard liquor with marijuana and ecstasy. She justified her drug use by telling herself what she was doing was less harmful than heroin or cocaine. “I wasn't doing things that I thought was addictive," she explained.
“That's why you have to trust the eyes around you," said Pinkett Smith."Because you won't know. And that was the thing with me. Don't think that people didn't try to tap me on my shoulder. Don't think that when I was at Debbie Allen's throwing up all over her house ... OK? That she wasn't like, ‘Hey.'"As her tolerance grew, Pinkett Smith found herself indulging even more. She realized she was out of control.
Family matriarch Banfield-Norris joined the conversation to talk about her struggle with heroin addiction while Pinkett Smith was growing up.