Jada Pinkett Smith Had Some Bad Ecstasy And Passed Out On Nutty Professor Set

Actor Jada Pinkett Smith talked at length about her past struggles with substance abuse on this week's Red Table Talk--which features her mother and daughter as co-hosts--and had an open discussion about drugs and alcohol, and the dangers of combining the two. The episode was focusing on the rising cases of women facing addiction.

On the set of the 1996 film The Nutty Professor, Pinkett Smith talked about one particularly bad cocktail and blacked out. In the past on the show, she's been very candid about her struggles with drugs and her coping mechanism for depression, but how it only made things exponentially worse.

"I had one incident on Nutty Professor. I passed out," she said. "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."

Pinkett Smith also shared stories about how her worst drinking days began all the way in high school. "I could drink almost anybody under the table," she said. "When I moved to red wine like, 'This is better for me because they say red wine is good for you.' But drinking red wine for me was like drinking glasses of water…because I'm used to that hard hit."

The family was joined by medical specialist Dr. Jessica Mellinger from the University of Michigan that also talked about the statistics of women drinking and how the psychology behind why they drink compared to men.

"More women are drinking more heavily and are starting to get liver disease [much younger]," Mellinger explained. "While women in their 40s and 50s are still the biggest chunk we see with this, the rates of women in the 20s and 30s and 40s are really starting to catch up with that."

The actor also admitted that when the time came and she finally moved to California to pursue her film career, that's when it worsened and she moved up from drugs and alcohol alone to combining brutal cocktails of the two. She mentioned that she had found her rock bottom and eventually climbed out.

You can watch the episode in its entirety on the show's Facebook page.