Lauren London joined Jada Pinkett Smith during the most recent episode of Red Table Talk to discuss their experiences with gun violence as women. Although the footage was taped prior to the pandemic and, thus, the most recent, publicized police killings of Black individuals in America, Jada recorded an updated introduction in light of the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor.  “As we are witnessing our black men being murdered in the streets, very rarely do we talk about the women who are left behind grief-stricken and shattered,” Jada says. “George Floyd has a six-year-old daughter, a sister, a girlfriend. Ahmaud Arbery [has] a mother, a sister. Both men have countless heartbroken women—aunts, cousins, friends—in their lives who love them. We are dedicating this Red Table Talk to how gun violence affects women.” She also acknowledges the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, who was “struck by eight bullets while sleeping in her own home” on March 13th.

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During their conversation, Lauren speaks to Jada about what it was like losing her life partner and father of her child, Nipsey Hussle, to gun violence last year, and how she’s been handling raising two black sons in a world where they will often be perceived as a threat for no reason. “So you’re raising two black boys. As a mother, what are some of your precautions or some of your messaging?” Jada asks her. “What I instill in them is more about the police,” Lauren responds. “How to handle yourself when you get pulled over. That’s more of my education, protecting them being Black men in America.” She also talks about her experiences with gun violence growing up.

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“Just growing up in LA, in the area that I was around. In high school, a lot of the boys were in gangs, and I remember that a lot of our friends, by summertime they were gone,” she recalls. “They had transitioned from gun violence. So you kind of got… I don’t want to say numb, but used to hearing it.” She and Jada then relate with one another about essentially risking your life every time you went to a party in high school. “That’s traumatizing,” Lauren says. “To be 16 years old, having to be on guard when you go into a party.”

“You just get used to figuring out how to keep yourself safe in these environments,” Jada points out. “Most of us grow up in war zones. And I did not even realize that until my life changed. When I started to look at how my kids were growing up versus me. But that’s not their reality.” Later on in the episode, Jada, along with the rest of the ladies of Red Table Talk, speak with peacemaker and activist Erica Ford as well as gun violence survivors Rain Stippec and Dani Robinson. Watch the full episode below:

Will Smith’s foray into social media has proven to be successful. Though more and more family-friendly Hollywood stars have been getting more interactive with fans through social media these days, Will Smith has mastered the art of Instagram to a t. Fans have received an insight look into his family life through his own ventures on Snapchat and Facebook as well as Jada Pinkett’s Red Table Talk. The footage is insightful and hilarious at the same time but that’s just what actually makes it into the final edit.

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For Mother’s Day, Will Smith decided to share a tribute video that exhibits exactly what she has to deal with. “Dear @jadapinkettsmith, Happy Mothers Day,” he captioned the video. “Love, Your Oldest child, Willard.” The video is essentially Will yelling out “Jada” and roasting her, but ultimately, it gets flipped into a bouncy remix with some family footage. Hilarious and heartfelt, Will Smith’s post earned a string of laughing emojis from Jada Pinkett Smith.

Much of the footage included in the video was taken from some of Will’s online series while others included some behind the scenes footage from Red Table Talk. Surely, the Smith family will be doing it up big quarantine-style to celebrate Mother’s Day today.

Check out the hilarious clip below from Jada’s “Oldest Child.”

There’s absolutely no way that Jada Pinkett Smith is pushing 50. The eternally-youthful actress has clearly been keeping up with her fitness routine in quarantine, as she shared a clip of herself and her daughter, Willow, hitting the books on Thursday, but not in the conventional way. In the video, the mother-daughter used heavy books as weights while performing a gruelling core workout, completely in sync one another as they did crunches. During the workout, Jada had her chiseled abs on full display as she put in the work to keep her six pack toned.

“A lil mother/daughter Mother’s Day prep,” Jada captioned the post. The Smith ladies received a ton of love on the post, with celebs like Kelly Rowland and Chloe x Halle commenting how impressed they are. “GOALS!!!!!” Kelly wrote, accompanied by some heart-eye emojis. Jada replied with, “all we need now is some of your workout gear.” Chloe x Halle also praised Jada and Willow, commenting a series of heart eye emojis followed by “y’all are so bomb.” Keep up the good work, ladies!

Couples are finding themselves learning more about their partners while under quarantine. Even couples who have been married for decades like Jada Pinkett-Smith and husband Will Smith, this quarantine is showing them that there are still untouched layers that they don’t know about one another. During an episode of Red Table Talk that aired on Wednesday (April 29), Jada spoke candidly about her marriage and admitted that being under lockdown with her husband gave her a new perspective. “I gotta be honest. I think one of the things that I’ve realized is that I don’t know Will at all,” she said.

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“Let me tell you, that’s been something: To be married to someone for 20-some odd years and then realize, ‘I don’t know you and you don’t know me.’ But also realizing there’s an aspect of yourself you don’t know either.” Jada Pinkett-Smith added, “The thing that Will and I are learning to do is be friends, because you get into all of these ideas about what intimate relationships are supposed to look like, what marriages are supposed to be. So Will and I are in the process of him taking the time to learn to love himself, me taking the time to learn to love myself, right? And us building a friendship along the way.”

She went on to explain that after being with someone for a while, you construct in your mind the person you think they are. “I feel like there’s a layer that you get to, life gets busy and you create these stories in your head and then you hold onto these stories and that is your idea of your partner, that’s not who your partner is,” she said. “This is intimacy, just being able to get to who our loved ones are beyond that which we have perceived.” Watch the episode of Red Table Talk below.

The cast of Girls Trip held a virtual reunion on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk to catch up and discuss the possibility of a sequel. Jada was joined by Tiffany Haddish, Queen Latifah, and Regina Hall over video chat on Wednesday for “a special Girls Trip reunion.” During their chat, each of the former co-stars shared what they’ve been doing to keep busy during quarantine. Regina revealed that she’s been taking this time for herself to learn how to strip, to which Queen says, “I knew you had some ho in you.”

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Despite the rampant rumours that she and Common have entered into a romantic relationship, Tiffany said she’s been trying out online dating through the Bumble app. “You can talk to guys, FaceTime without them having your phone number and watching TV shows together, them watching me cook something, stuff like that,” she explains. “It’s fun ’til the dudes try to pull their wee-wees out. I don’t want to see your thing thing just yet!” At one point, the ladies confessed to their celebrity crushes, and Queen admitted that she’s got a thing for Victoria’s Secret model, Adriana Lima. “I like the girl,” she said. “She’s a Brazilian model.” Jada agreed, saying, “She’s a cutie. She got some fire, too.”

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As for a sequel to their 2017 comedy? “The answer is ‘yes’ and I can’t wait to do it,” said Queen. “I can’t wait to work with y’all again and I hope we get to go somewhere fun.” Regina agreed, but added, “I think we’re all down, we just want to make sure it’s amazing. That it’s the right thing and a great thing.” Tiffany has already spoken about a Girls Trip sequel in the past, revealing that she’s even written a script for it. However, she said that studio executives were not interested because production was asking for “too much money.” Fingers crossed it works out eventually. Check out the full Girls Trip reunion on Red Table Talk below:

It was all about girl talk on Red Table Talk. On Wednesday (April 15), Jada Pinkett-Smith reunited with her Girls Trip co-stars Regina Hall, Tiffany Haddish, and Queen Latifah. The four ladies had a quarantine chat where the ladies discussed whether or not Girls Trip 2 was on the horizon. “The answer is ‘yes’ and I can’t wait to do it,” Queen Latifah said. “I can’t wait to work with y’all again and I hope we get to go somewhere fun.”

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Elsewhere, the women talked about their celebrity crushes. Regina made things awkward—and brought in laughs—when she named Jada’s husband Will Smith as her crush. Tiffany, who is rumored to be dating rapper Common, had a couple of names. “Well if we’re talking about females, then I’m into Meryl Streep,” she said, adding, “I like Giancarlo Stanton, No. 27 for the New York Yankees. I think he’s very handsome.”

Jada shared that hers is “Governor [Andrew] Cuomo. I don’t miss a press conference. When Cuomo is on I go, ‘Have to see my celebrity crush right now, sorry.’” Queen Latifah, who’s rumored to be engaged to longtime partner Eboni Nichols, weighed in that she has a crush on Victoria’s Secret Angel Adriana Lima. “I like the girl. She’s a Brazilian model,” Queen Latifah said. Jada chimed in, “She’s a cutie. She got some fire, too.” Check out the ladies on Red Table Talk below.

Many people may find themselves bored during this quarantine, but others are struggling to maintain. Whether they’re facing mental health issues or dealing with steps in recovery from addictions, being under lockdown is a mountain that many can’t climb on their own. Red Table Talk discussed a few of these topics with Adrienne Banfield-Jones, mother to Jada Pinkett-Smith and grandmother to Willow Smith. Adrienne was once again candid about her past drug addiction and shared how she’s been coping during this COVID-19 quarantine.

“As some of you may know, Gammy was a heroin addict and has been in recovery now for…how long?” Jada asked her mother. Adrienne replied, “Twenty-nine years. I celebrated 29 years in December so I’m in my 30th year… It’s been a long time since I’ve had to rely on going to meetings daily. The quarantine, believe it or not, actually put me back into going to meetings.”

She may be decades into her recovery, but that doesn’t mean that Adrienne doesn’t have a support system. She shared that her sponsor contacted her just in case this quarantine was a stressor and told her about online gatherings. “I went to my old homegroup back in Baltimore. I’m telling you, it was such a good feeling,” she said. 

Jada also chatted with Entertainment Tonight about her mother’s recovery. “She just has some really veteran, useful tips in regards to how to stay clean, how to stay connected, and what to do. ...It’s like I always tell people, ‘Never judge the journey you’ve been on because once you get through on the other side, you’re gonna have so much to offer other people who are going through it as you once had.” Watch the clip of red Table Talk below.

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Jada Pinkett Smith is glad her daughter, Willow, has stopped smoking weed as of late, as she and her own mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, confessed that Willow’s weed habits were starting to drive them “crazy” because of their family history of addiction. The mother-daughter trio sat down for the latest episode of their Red Table Talk series on Wednesday, to discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has been affecting Americans struggling with addictio. Naturally, the three women delved into their own experiences with substance abuse. Adrienne opened up about her sobriety and recovering from her heroin addiction, from which she has managed to stay clean for almost three decades. The conversation then steered toward Willow and her dalliance with weed.

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“Willow, I’m really proud of you as well, because you have decided to curb your excessive weed smoking,” Jada told her daughter. Willow jokingly responded, “You always were telling me, you’d be like, ‘gotta stop that smoking,’” which made all of them laugh. “Only because as your mother, I could see the effects of it that you couldn’t,” Jada continued. Adrienne agreed, noting, “And for me, it was like with the history that we have in our family, it was driving me crazy.” Willow then assured them that she hasn’t smoked weed in 3 months, specifically THC.

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“When I stopped smoking,” Willow recalled, “it was a really big eye opener because…there are so many people that I called friends in my life who kind of like…” she trailed off, before Adrienne completed her sentence by saying, “drifted away.” Willow continued to emphasize the positives of quitting smoking. “I know it sounds so cheesy but around the time I stopped smoking, I started doing a lot of yoga,” she revealed. “And I just excelled. ‘Cause I was putting all of my energy into that. Like I wasn’t doing anything else and I was like ‘wow, what if I was doing this with everything?’” Catch the full Red Table Talk segment below:

There have been rumors about a Girls Trip 2 film for the better part of a year, but Tiffany Haddish says it just may come to fruition—in a different form. Last year, the Girls Trip star told Page Six that even though the first film was a massive success at the box office, studio executives haven’t moved forward with the sequel. “I’ve even written a script for it. Me and the girls punched it up and made it good,” Tiffany said back in May 2019. “They don’t want it. We understood how much money could be made, and they don’t want to pay it. So I doubt it.”

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In a recent interview with Huffington Post, the actress shared that during this COVID-19 quarantine, she’s been in regular contact with her Girls Trip co-stars Queen Latifah, Regina King, and Jada Pinkett-Smith. The film was a breakout performance for Tiffany Haddish—who only made $80K for her appearance—and she claims that the studios won’t move forward because production is asking for “too much money.”

Nevertheless, the four stars of the film decided to hop on video conference calls to iron out a new script as a unit. “We might decide not to even make it ‘Girls Trip,’” the actress told Huffington Post. “Maybe we’ll do a different story just in case no one wants to make ‘Girls Trip 2.’” Did you enjoy Girls Trip enough to head back to theaters for a sequel?

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We are currently in the midst of a global pandemic, which is a foreign reality to pretty much all of us. It’s important to remain calm during this, as it can get hectic pretty quickly. We’ve already seen panic strike in North America as hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipes, and toilet paper have been selling out in high quantities and, as misinformation continues to spread, it’s become a mission for many to educate the public on what’s really going on. Days after his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm has joined an emergency edition of Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, Will Smith, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, and Trey Smith to discuss COVID-19.

Explaining that Jaden Smith chose not to be part of the gathering because he has been traveling and wants to responsibly keep his distance from any social event, Jada Pinkett Smith introduced the topic before the specialist hopped on a video call to clear up some common confusion about the coronavirus. 

Osterholm makes some pretty interesting points, including the fact that the virus travels primarily through the air and that the most common method of catching it is through your breathing. Masks and gloves haven’t been proven completely ineffective yet, but transmission through doorknobs and touching other common areas has reportedly been minimal. 

Later in the show, Jada invites a woman named Chiara to join them after she was diagnosed with the coronavirus ten days ago. She speaks about her own experience, detailing how difficult it was to come across a test and how she’s self-isolating at the moment.

Watch the full episode below.