Jada Pinkett Smith stopped by the SiriusXM studios and appeared on SiriusXM’s “Sway In The Morning” to promote her new book, “Worthy”.
While speaking with SiriusXM’s Sway Calloway, Jada Pinkett Smith opened up about her relationship with Debbie Allen and what she left out of her latest book.
Jada telling Sway how her and Will have also considered writing a book together.
“I know it seems like it’s a lot of life because it is a lot of life in the book, but it’s very streamlined. There’s like layers and layers and layers and layers. There’s no way I could have put it all in one book. There’s no way, you know, so there’s definitely other books to come. I mean, even Will and I are thinking about writing a book. We were talking about this last night, writing a book called ‘Don’t Try This At Home’, where he and I kind of sit down and talk about our specific journey together.”
Jada Pinkett Smith “Left A Whole Lot” Out of Her Latest Book:
Jada Pinkett Smith: Oh, it’s a whole lot I didn’t include in this book. Right? Oh-
Sway Calloway: Well, you know the next question. Do I even need to ask it?
Jada Pinkett Smith: No, I mean, you know, this is just, I know it seems like it’s a lot of life because it is a lot of life in the book, but it’s very streamlined. There’s like layers and layers and layers and layers. There’s no way I could have put it all in one book. There’s no way, you know, so there’s definitely other books to come. I mean, even Will and I are thinking about writing a book. We were talking about this last night, writing a book called “Don’t Try This at Home”, where he and I kind of sit down and talk about our specific journey together.
Sway Calloway: Will said that?
Jada Pinkett Smith: Yeah.
Sway Calloway: Oh man. Tell Will I said, “What up.”
How Debbie Allen “Looked Out” For Jada Pinkett Smith:
Sway Calloway: Can you speak a little more in depth about Debbie Allen and your relationship with her? She’s an amazing individual who’s been on this show and I want to take this opportunity to put the spotlight on all the folks that she’s touched.
Jada Pinkett Smith: Yeah. She, I mean, she’s like our surrogate mom. You know, it’s like Debbie is like, she raised me in Hollywood until this day, you know, and so without her, you know, even on like a different world, she just, she looked out. She was making sure we all knew how to write scripts, we all had opportunities to direct. She, when Pac got me hooked up with “Menace II Society”, she made it so that I could do that movie because I was contracted by “A Different World”.
Sway Calloway: Oh, so you weren’t really allowed to.
Jada Pinkett Smith: I wasn’t allowed to.
Sway Calloway: Exclusivity.