Jada Pinkett Smith inspired her family to use psychedelic drugs.
The actress, 51, who has son Jaden, 24, and daughter Willow, 22, with husband Will Smith, 54, was said by her son to have been using the substances before he and his siblings also took them up.
He told the Psychedelic Science conference in Denver: “I think it was my mom, actually, that was really the first one to make that step for the family.
“It was just her for a really, really long time and then eventually it just trickled and evolved and everybody found it in their own ways.”
Jaden didn’t specify which psychedelics he was referring to, but said they have helped him form stronger relationships with his sister and his half-brother in a “profound” way.
He said: “Siblings can argue so much and fight so much, and lord knows me and my siblings have done so much of that in the past.
“But the level of love and empathy that I can feel for them inside of the (psychedelic) experiences and outside of the experiences has been something that’s profound and beautiful.”
Jaden’s half-brother is Trey, 30, who Will had with his ex-wife Sheree Zampino, 55.
He added about how drug use has helped them resolve differences: “It will actually help us to open up our minds to get out of the old ways of thinking that got us into lots of these arguments and open it up so that it just releases and makes room for you to work it out and massage it out until it’s completely gone.”
Popular psychedelics include psilocybin (mushrooms), ayahuasca, LSD and mescaline.
Jaden previously opened up about experimenting with magic mushrooms in 2022.
