To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed life felt like a ‘warzone’ growing up because of the gangs and gun violence.
The actress, 48, made the admission while discussing the effects of gun violence with Lauren London, the partner of rapper Nipsey Hussle who was shot last year, on her show Red Table Talk.
Jada said she was putting her ‘life on the line’ as a teenager by going to house parties and was constantly trying to ‘keep herself safe’.
She grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and was a drug dealer in high school when she met rapper Tupac Shakur. Both of her parents battled drug addiction.
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