On Wednesday’s episode of Red Table Talk, Jada Pinkett Smith said that thousands of people called her after the scandal during this year’s Academy Awards.
– Regarding what I went through with my health and what happened at the Oscars, thousands have contacted me about their own stories, Pinkett Smith said in the episode.
Talk about hair disease on the talk show
Red Table Talk is an American talk show hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith and Willow Smith’s mother and Jada’s mother, Adrian Banfield-Norris.
In this episode, the actor wanted to take the opportunity to give others with alopecia the opportunity to talk about what it means to live with the disease.
Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease in which the body attacks its own hair cells. This leads to patchy hair loss on the head and/or anywhere else on the body.
In the episode, Pinkett Smith also received a visit from the mother of a 12-year-old girl who had been bullied for hair loss, and from a doctor who explained the disease.
Hope Smith and Rock can solve this problem
Two months after her husband Will Smith caused a stir at the Oscars, she also used Wednesday’s episode to talk about the incident.
“For Oscar night, it’s my deepest hope that these two smart and talented men will have the opportunity to talk about and sort this out,” Pinkett Smith said.
Until then, Will and I will continue to do what we have done for the past 28 years, and that is to continue to discover this thing called life together.
The reason for this is that Will Smith hit Chris Rock on stage during the Oscars when he came up with a joke on Pinkett Smith’s account.
Later in the episode, Pinkett Smith said that millions of people suffer from hair loss and the shame associated with the disease.
“The condition, especially for black women, can affect a person’s perception of themselves and force them to confront others’ perceptions of beauty, hair, race, and culture,” Pinkett-Smith said.
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