"Red Table Talk" is an online show that premiered in May as a weekly Facebook Watch talk show that shared the thoughts and heart of Jada Pinkett Smith.
Previously this year, Jada got real when she put herself "on the table" so to speak when she addressed cheating rumors with singer August Alsina while still married to Will.
She confirmed those rumors as true. That spawned a host of tweets and social media posts about their "entanglement" as Jada described it. It was a purely sexual relationship where Jada got what she wanted during a time period that her and Will thought their relationship was over.
“An entanglement? A relationship,” Smith said, prodding his wife to be more specific, alluding to the Facebook Watch show's dedication to candid discussion.
“Yes, it was a relationship. Absolutely. I was in a lot of pain. I was very broken,” she replied. "Now, in the process of that relationship, I definitely realize that you can’t find happiness outside of yourself. ... I would definitely say we did everything that we could to get away from each other, only to realize that that wasn’t possible.”
But this isn't Jada's first confession around sex. If you remember, Jada at one time said that she thought everything could be fixed by sex.
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In one episode back in 2018, the actress is brutally candid when discussing her history of addictions, including sex, alcohol and fitness.
"My sort of addictions jump, they jump around," Jada says in the episode. "When I was younger, I definitely think I had a sex addiction of some kind, yes, that everything could be fixed by sex."
Smith previously spoke about her sexual history in a May "Red Table Talk" episode with her daughter Willow Smith, including a self-proclaimed masturbation addiction when she was younger.
"My grandmother taught me about self-pleasuring because she wanted me to know that that pleasure was from me," she said.
"She didn't want me to fall into the hands of a man and, if he gave me pleasure, to think that that was him. And she taught me at 9. At 9!"
"I think by your age I gave myself multiples first, multiple orgasms. I did," she continued referring to Willow's age. "I was really into it at one point. Just because I was in an exploration state and I was abstaining from men.
And I actually think I went through kind of an addiction, too, with it ... And then one day I was like, ‘Enough. You're having five orgasms a day.'"
Sex addiction, or hypersexuality, is defined by Psychology Today as a condition in which people have "excessive" amounts of sex and feel guilty as a result of that.
Symptoms include experiencing intense sexual fantasies, sexual urges, or sexual behaviors over a period of at least six months, as well as having those fantasies, urges, or behaviors interfere with everyday life.
Like any other addiction, sufferers feel insatiable urges in indulging in the substance of their choice and then feel waves of guilt about their behavior. In this case, the way that the addicts cope with the ensuing guilt is more sex.
The addict feels shame about his or her secret life, goes to great lengths to keep it a secret, yet has a strange, almost pathological desire to get caught.
He/She doesn't so much engage in sex, but they rather "enter into it," as he/she would a secret chamber.
For some sex addicts, behavior does not progress beyond compulsive masturbation or the extensive use of pornography or phone or computer sex services. For others, addiction can involve illegal activities such as exhibitionism, voyeurism, obscene phone calls, child molestation or rape.
Sex addicts do not necessarily become sex offenders. Moreover, not all sex offenders are sex addicts. Roughly 55 percent of convicted sex offenders can be considered sex addicts.
About 71 percent of child molesters are sex addicts. For many, their problems are so severe that imprisonment is the only way to ensure society’s safety against them.
For some, this revelation Jada shared is just fuel to the fire that The Smiths, her and Will, could be wild in their sex life. While, for others, this revelation is a gift to those who may be struggling as well.
Either way, Jada is living in her truth and is still brave for sharing, for real.
