Why Jada Pinkett Smith Called Herself a ‘Petty B*tch’

Jada Pinkett Smith doesn’t consider herself a mean girl but does admit she’s a “petty b*tch.” During the Oct. 27 Red Table Talk, where Pinkett Smith discussed why women can be so mean to each other, she made the startling confession.

Why Jada Pinkett Smith called herself a ‘petty b*tch’

Pinkett Smith, never one to hold back, said that while she’s not mean, she definitely holds a grudge.

At the top of the Red Table Talk discussion about how women treat each other, Pinkett Smith asked her mother and daughter, Willow Smith, if they’ve ever been mean girls.

Jada kicked it off, saying, “I wouldn’t say I’m a mean girl, but I’ll tell you what I am and that’s a petty b*tch.”

“I’m a petty b*tch because, here’s the thing … now I might not say some mean things and I might not do some mean things but if you do something to me, baby, let me tell you. I’m gonna hold on to it until the moment comes.”

Willow admitted, “I, at a point in my life, was just mean to everybody. Because I was hurting and I was angry and I was going through a lot of stuff.”

Jada’s mom, Adrienne Banfield Norris, said she knows people will say that she’s mean, but clarified, “There’s a difference in the meanness because I’m not for the nonsense, I’m not for the bullsh*t. Probably one of my worst character defects is being judgmental.”

“I’m extremely judgmental,” she continued. “And I actually just realized that it’s my own insecurities. I didn’t even realize that that’s where that judgment comes from. So what I don’t like in somebody else is what I don’t like in myself.”

Jada Pinkett Smith was betrayed by a friend

During their discussion, Pinkett Smith and her guests shared stories of when they were betrayed by a female friend. The actor shared how a friend once took advantage of her.

“I hаd а girlfriend who brought some dudes to my house who stole my ID аnd got my nаme cаught up in а credit cаrd scаm,” Pinkett Smith shared. “Somebody who wаs close to me trying to tаke me out.”

“That goes to show you how envy … I reаlly feel like a lot of us get so riddled with envy,” she added. “Envy will justify so much reаlly cruel behаvior.”

Willow was betrayed by a family member

Willow might not have had quite the betrayal experience that her mom did, but she did share how she felt like a family member betrayed her.

“She developed super fаster thаn me,” Willow said of a cousin. “She hаd the long flowing hаir. My hаir, you know, I got the аfro vibe. I wаs super skinny, I wаs like, tomboy. I would аlwаys tell her the dudes thаt I liked. Every time … she would dаte him, every time.”

After three times, Willow eventually caught on that she shouldn’t be giving up that personal information and got wise to her cousin’s shady ways.