Ireland Baldwin talks battling substance abuse in candid Red Table Talk chat with Willow Smith

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Ireland Baldwin got candid about her inner demons on Red Table Talk.In a sneak peek of her upcoming episode, the actress, 26, recalled a dark period in her life where she struggled with substance abuse.'I just hit a total breaking point and I was self-medicating with Xanax and I was drinking,' Ireland, 26, told Willow Smith. 'Total breaking point': Ireland Baldwin talked her battles with prescription medication and alcohol abuse on an upcoming episode of Red Table Talk'I have a lot of alcoholism and drug addiction in my family,' Ireland told Willow Smith. 'I had a night where I went way too far with the drinking and taking pills 'cause I couldn't even go to bed at night,' the daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger said.'I had isolated all of my real friends, isolated my family.

I had no control in anything in my life. I tortured myself with my eating disorders that I had. 'I didn't talk to my parents for a year,' she said. 'I saw them here and there but I was so ashamed of what I had become and how I was living.'Ireland, who was appearing on Red Table Talk with her mother, has been candid with fans about her struggles. 'I was so ashamed': Baldwin said she 'didn't talk to' her parents Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger for a year Dark period:'I just became this different person.

I was like emaciated in every way. I was lifeless,' Baldwin said'I just became this different person. I was like emaciated in every way.

I was lifeless.'Ireland has been open and honest with fans about her struggles.She checked into SOBA Recovery Center in Malibu in 2015 for 'emotional trauma' following a brief relationship with artist Angel Haze, 29.A source told ET at the time: 'Ireland has been through some stressful and negative situations in.