Jada Pinkett Smith has it all: a beautiful family, famous husband, Emmy Award-winning talk show. She is a rockstar, author of a bestselling children’s book and star of multiple movies and TV shows. At 52, Pinkett Smith has lived the dreams of so many people and is still growing. And yet, even with her success, she recently contemplated suicide. Pinkett Smith opened up about her bouts with depression and the road to understanding the things that really mattered on a recent episode of "Salon Talks."
Jada Pinkett Smith is most known for hosting "Red Table Talk" and appearing in hit films such as "Scream 2," "Ali" and multiple installments of "The Matrix" and "Madagascar franchises. She is also a producer, with "The Secret Life of Bees," the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical "Fela!," the 2014 film remake of "Annie" and the 2010 remake of "The Karate Kid" among her credits. While Hollywood and her fans were celebrating Pinkett Smith's accomplishments over the last 30 years, she was fighting what seemed to be insurmountable pain — in her words, "looking for cliffs to drive myself over to make it look like an accident." Pinkett Smith details this and much more in her new memoir "Worthy."
