“And then come to find out that he was abusing Percocet. “He asked me that day, he was like, ‘Man, I could really use some help dealing with life,” Pinkett Smith recalled of their first introduction at the London show.
The R&B crooner discussed his fall at an NYC concert that landed him in a coma for three days, his subsequent addiction to Percocet, his family’s history of drug addiction, and his rare autoimmune disease Guillain-Barré syndrome that attacks his liver.
Joining him at the Table as guests discussing their past addictions were Pinkett Smith’s mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones and sister-in-law Ashley Marie. Her “dear family friend” Alsina came onto her Facebook Watch series for the “Facing Addiction” episode. J– Alsina appeared as a guest of on an episode of Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk. But paparazzi shots of Alsina and Pinkett Smith suggested they had coupled up, sparking divorce rumors with her husband Smith. The two first met at her kids Jaden and Willow Smith’s joint set at Wireless Festival 2015 in London and became fast friends.