Jada Smith releases teaser of 'Red Table Talk' new season, no mention of Oscars slapgate
Jada Pinkett Smith has released the trailer for the upcoming new season of her talk show 'Red Table Talk' but there were no hints of whether she would address her husband, actor Will Smith's controversial slap gate incidents at the 2022 Oscars.
"@redtabletalk is back for our new season starting tomorrow [sparkles emoji]," Pinkett captioned the post on her Instagram. The 50-year-old actress, her 21-year-old daughter, Willow Smith, and her 68-year-old mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris hosted stars like Janelle Monáe, Kim Basinger, and Ireland Baldwin for the fifth season of the talk show.
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The two-minute-long clip shows the hosts sitting down with many celebrity guests for long conversations. In the promo clip, Basinger and Baldwin open up about battling anxiety. The 68-year-old actress talks about dealing with agoraphobia and reveals, "I wouldn't leave the house, I would no longer go to dinner. I had to relearn how to drive. Her 26-year-old daughter talked about having been in multiple abusive relationships. "I have been in physically abusive relationships, I have been in emotional, verbal, very gaslit, manipulative relationships. I've been through a lot of different kinds of abuse," said Baldwin.
Musician Janelle Monáe discussed her father's addiction to crack cocaine along with other personal issues. "I was dealing with real rejection, abandonment issues," he said. The promo also showed the hosts talking to the mother of Miss USA, Cheslie Kryst, who died by suicide earlier this year. Simon Leviev, a victim of the Tinder Swindler, was also a guest on the show and revealed that he defrauded her of over $100,000. The trailer also teased an episode of all three Smith kids, aka Trey, Willow, and Jayden, at the table together.
But even though the promo promised candid revelations from the guests on the show, it wasn't exactly clear whether Pinkett would open up about her own personal life. Though she has opened up about personal issues in the past, she has chosen not to speak publicly about the viral slap gate incident at the Academy Awards this year.
Watch: Will Smith slapped Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars after taking offense to a joke he told about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith https://t.co/Or2veMdKpb pic.twitter.com/Ed7XmDDsvU
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Her husband, Will Smith walked on stage and slapped Chris Rock during the awards ceremony after the comedian made a joke about Pinkett's buzzcut. While some people felt that it was insensitive for Rock to comment on Pinkett's hair since she has been struggling with alopecia, others felt that nothing could defend physical violence. The incident was widely talked about and led to numerous articles, tweets, comments, and memes.
Smith posted an apology on his Instagram after the incident, but due to the massive outrage, he was banned from attending the Oscars for ten years. CAA, his talent agency, also debated whether he should be dropped, but decided to retain him. Multiple projects of Smith have also been put on hold due to the slap gate incident. His apology read, "I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris. I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness."
Red Table Talk premieres on Wednesday, April 20 at 9 am PST.