I'm Jonathan K. Parton, welcome to K-PART.

Jada Pinkett Smith sits at the head of the red table.

She has set it off, taking us into the matrix and on an unforgettable girl's trip.

But now, in her new memoir entitled Worthy, she is bringing us into her life.

In this conversation, first recorded for Washington Post Live on October 16th,

as part of its new style live series, I talked with Jada about the significance of the title Worthy,

her growing up in Baltimore and earning a degree in what she called the

University of the Bemore Street, as a drug dealer.

Her misunderstood relationship with Tupac Shakur and, yes, I went there.

Her misunderstood marriage to Megastar Will Smith.

Can we have our own red table talk for a moment?

Yes!

Because one of the things when people saw that I was going to be talking to you,

I mean, the blowback has been really intense, and a lot of the blowback has been,

you know, she had this red table talk and they've talked about all this stuff,

and yet she never said in any of these conversations that they were separated, that basic...

That's not true.

Oh, go ahead, go ahead.

Correct the record.

So, see, people weren't listening.

Here are the rest of what Jada Pinkett Smith had to say right now.

Let's start with the title of the book Worthy.

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