JADA Pinkett Smith’s mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, revealed she had non-consensual sex with the star’s late father, Robsol Pinkett, during their marriage.
In a teaser for this week’s Red Table Talk, the Girls Trip actress directly asked her mom if she ever had a sexual experience that was ‘not necessarily consensual.’
‘I have, but it was also with my husband. Your dad, actually,’ Banfield-Norris told the 49-year-old talk show host and her granddaughter Willow Smith, 19.
To clarify her mother’s accusation, Pinkett Smith paused, before asking: ‘You’re basically saying you had non-consensual sex with my father?’
Her mom, who became pregnant in high school from Jada’s father, replied with a nod.
Banfield-Norris previously engaged in a candid chat about her history with her ex-husband, who she said was physically abusive to her during his drunken rages.
In a heart-wrenching edition of their family’s Facebook Watch series in 2018, she revealed he once threw her body over a banister, an incident which left her running for her life.
‘I do know when enough gets to be enough,’ Adrienne said, before revealing her own mother, who was a social worker, had cautioned her about Robsol early on.
‘He gave me a black eye once, and I tried to hide it from mommy, but she saw it,’ she said.
Adrienne said that in one instance, Robsol beat her ‘in a rage’ while she was staying at her parents house with Jada. At that point, she left Jada with a neighbor and called the police.
Still speaking of Robsol, she said: ‘His addiction, he just wasn’t rational. I feel like once again I’m trying to make excuses for him.’
‘And I think that’s what women do. But whatever the reasons were, you have to – at the end of the day – you have to protect yourself.’
The mother-of-two, however, said that her late father was a ‘gentle soul’ once he sobered up for good, adding that he had it rough during his childhood.
Adrienne said she wished Robson could tell things from his perspective.
‘Now that I’m older, I have so much more compassion in knowing what he had gone through,’ she said. ‘You know, cause I was pretty harsh on him,’ she noted.
At the conclusion of the show, Jada had a message for her viewers who are currently in abusive situation.
‘I just wanna say to anybody that is going through any kind of domestic violence, I just hope that this show could give you the courage and the strength and the understanding to know that there’s no reason to be shamed – there is help and you deserve better,’ she said. ‘And we are sending you love and blessings.’
Robsol Pinkett Jr. died of an overdose in 2010, according to ET Canada.
(SOURCE: DAILYMAILUK)
