When Will We Stop Vilifying Jada Pinkett Smith?

Celebrities like Drew Barrymore, Emily Ratajkowski and Spears are successfully capitalizing on their personal brands with podcasts, memoirs and talk shows while Pinkett Smith is chastised for doing the same thing. She serves as an exception in a space where there is a visible lack of women of color. Pinkett Smith’s now-cancelled Red Talk Table series aimed to be a safe space, where people can “live in their humanity and not be shamed for it,” she told ET. Pinkett Smith says she shares intimate details of her life in order to “share knowledge…from a difficult experience that we can all learn from.” As one of the most well-known women in the world, her life will always include rumors and speculation. Her memoir, and her former show, enables her to use her own voice to speak her truth. Who are we to deny her that?