Last week on her 42nd birthday, Jada Pinkett Smith shared with her Facebook friends that she’d become a wiser person with age, but that her youth was filled with “many addictions.”
Will Smith’s wife didn’t specify what the addictions were but the ambiguous confession was enough to get tongues rolling and to bring guilty family members out of the closet.
Warren A. Brown, now a successful attorney in Baltimore, married Jada’s mom in 1979 when the actress was just 8 years old. The couple divorced in 1986.
Pinkett Smith’s mother has always remained candid about her past drug use, but Brown offered an additional view into the life of the actress as a child.
He tells Celebuzz.com:
“At times I felt guilty. I remember just the three of us in the house together and I knew I was high and so was her mother.
She didn’t know though, she was too young to recognize it. She didn’t see us doing anything. But I felt really bad because I thought this little girl deserves better than her parents (being) addicted.”
Brown continued: “While we were both dealing with that, I was still going to court and she was going to school and working. She left it up to me to watch Jada”.
“It’s difficult to feel guilty. I don’t really blame myself, but I think about a couple things. I question that if I had not divorced myself from them, whether or not she would have fallen into addictions. And if I had been around I may have witnessed it and been able to pull her out of it.”
Should Smith respond to her stepdad’s confession?
