This is it — Jada Pinkett Smith and Leah Remini finally burying the hatchet after over a year!
We found out a couple weeks ago the two had finally made peace on Jada’s Facebook Watch show, Red Table Talk.
Now the episode is up, and it’s some real shiz!
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Before Leah arrives, Will Smith gives his two cents, saying:
“Whatever she experienced with the Church of Scientology hurt her BAD. And hurt people hurt people. And she took a shot at us out of pain. She was hurt and she started taking shots at us.”
He also commended his wife on being a big enough person for a sitdown like this.
That’s when Leah comes in, and the healing begins.
Jada gets right into it, talking about how Leah including the Smiths in her book caused incorrect rumors to pick up about them. She tells her old friend:
“I was hurt, but I never said anything.”
Leah responds:
“Jada, I wasn’t even considering you would be hurt. Like I literally, looking back on it, I didn’t even consider Jada and Will. I was going in hard on my rightness, and then I looked at it and I said, ‘What responsibility can I take here for upsetting somebody that I actually really care about?’ And I’m sorry that I didn’t consider you. Because I didn’t.”
She even fights back tears, saying:
“I was just so caught up in that pain. And also the pain of others, and the effects that it had.”
She says she was “floored” when she saw Jada hit back against her words during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
Jada had essentially responded to Leah’s story about playing a game of hide-and-seek at Tom Cruise‘s house, saying it was just having fun with their young kids and nothing “weird” as Remini had “made it seem.”
Leah says she was “floored” and believed the Church had sent out Jada to make her look bad. But Jada explains:
“He doesn’t tell you what he’s going to talk about. He just throws stuff at you, and so when that came up, I was like that’s not how I remember that night going.”
She concedes Leah was right to think she didn’t have her back — because that innocent story had “created a situation” in which her family was becoming the subject of gossip.
“At that point, I’m like, I got to protect Will and I.”
Leah then explains what she now understands is something Jada didn’t even know — about the Church’s policy of discrediting anyone talking bad about them. Hence the whole experience drove Leah to believe the Smiths were even deeper in the Church than she thought!
“When I saw it, I was like, ‘Oh, so she’s in. She’s fair gaming me!'”
She then explains:
“‘Fair game’ is a policy in Scientology that calls for the utter destruction of a critic of Scientology.”
She says Jada’s behavior was the textbook way of laughing off claims to discredit.
Jada responds it was just her natural response to a statement she felt was painting her incorrectly.
So there it is.
It kind of seems like if someone were to say about someone SHE’S A SPY, and she responds NO, I’M NOT, and the conclusion is WELL THAT’S WHAT A SPY WOULD SAY SO SHE’S DEFINITELY A SPY.
LOLz!
Just “a big ass misunderstanding” as Jada says.
As for Jada’s claims she’s looked into Scientology but isn’t a Scientologist?? There’s actually a decent explanation for that.
Jada says:
“I love religion because I grew up in the Ethical Society. My grandmother was like, ‘You’re gonna learn all the religions, and then you got to decide which one you want to practice.’ So, for me, all religions have been my home, which is why I didn’t have a problem going to the Church of Scientology and saying ‘I’m not a Scientologist. I want to just be here and see what you have to offer,’ because that was my life, that’s what I’m used to. But I totally see, in your shoes in your reality, how you could see me the way that you did.
I always took the position that I’m here at the Scientology Center to learn what I want to learn, and I have no interest in being a Scientologist. One of the things I always prided myself on was being able to be amongst that group of Scientologists and still hold my own.”
So Will and Jada really AREN’T Scientologists!
Of course in Leah’s experience that kind of testing the water never existed. She was raised in the Church and thus didn’t even consider that was a possibility!
The talk goes on and gets even deeper about their histories and their feelings.
They acknowledge that they hurt one another and learn more about themselves and each other.
Man, this whole “communication” thing really works!
See the whole 20 minute talk HERE!
[Image via RedTableTalk/Facebook.]
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