Jada Pinkett Smith Passed Out On Nutty Professor Set From Bad Ecstasy

Jada Pinkett Smith admitted on a new episode of Red Table Talk that she passed out on the set of the 1996 film, The Nutty Professor, after taking what she said was a “bad batch of ecstasy.” Pinkett Smith’s career began in television, as Lena in the Cosby Show spinoff, A Different World. She segued into the movie industry and starred in several films including Jason’s Lyric and A Low Down Dirty Shame prior to being cast in the now-classic Murphy comedy.

In The Nutty Professor, Smith starred as Carly Purty, a graduate student who struck up a friendship with Professor Sherman Klump, an overweight man who developed an experimental weight-loss drug and tested it upon himself. This concoction caused him to temporarily turn into an evil alter-ego named Buddy Love. This alter-ego would entice Purty, but in the end, she realized her deeper, romantic feelings lay with the sweet and kind Klump. The Nutty Professor was so successful it spawned a sequel titled The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps, that was released in 2000.

During a discussion alongside her mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris and daughter Willow Smith on her Facebook series, Red Table Talk, Pinkett Smith revealed that she had what she called “an eye-opening” experience on the set of The Nutty Professor. She recalled how after she passed out from the bad batch of ecstasy, she ended up lying to everyone on set to explain why she passed out. Read what Pinkett Smith said about the incident below:

“I had one incident on Nutty Professor. I passed out. 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. I tell you what I did though,” she said, “got my a** together and got on that set. That was the last time.”

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Pinkett Smith claimed that her worst drinking days were in high school and that brown liquor and vodka were her favorite drinks. “I could drink almost anybody under the table,” she admitted. “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.” She admitted that when she first moved to Hollywood she would combine ecstasy, alcohol, and marijuana. “That was my cocktail,” she stated.

Pinkett Smith’s ability to convey important messages is the crux of her work on Red Table Talk. Discussion about her life’s struggles as well as that of Banfield-Norris and daughter Willow has been the main draw of the program. Her honesty about her addictions during the filming of The Nutty Professor is just one way Pinkett Smith has shone a light on difficult issues regarding marriage, infidelity, drug use, and sexuality. This platform has far surpassed any of her prior works in how it has given a safe space to these challenging topics in an open and honest manner.

Source: Red Table Talk