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Jada Pinkett Smith's Mom Adrienne Talks Olivia Jade's 'Frustrating' Interview on 'Red Table Talk'

Adrienne Banfield-Norris is sharing her feelings on her recent Red Table Talk interview with Olivia Jade.

Earlier this month, the 21-year-old daughter of Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli appeared on the Facebook Watch series, which the 67-year-old co-hosts with daughter Jada Pinkett Smith and granddaughter Willow Smith.

During her appearance, Olivia discussed her parents’ involvement in the college admissions scandal. If you didn’t know, Lori and Mossimo are currently both in prison.

While appearing on the Keep It podcast, Adrienne admitted that the interview was “frustrating.”

“It was frustrating, but at the end of the day, I felt like people understood how I felt,” Adrienne explained. “There were some things about it that were a little frustrating. I felt like as a 21-year-old young adult, that she needed to be way more aware of what’s going on in the world, and that was a little frustrating.”

Adrienne continued: “I heard people make comments, like, ‘Well, kids don’t watch the news.’ Please. The news on TV is not the only place where you understand what’s going on with the world and if you think that then you’re old! Because young people are not relying on the news — my generation is not relying on the news. I’m on my phone, on social media all the time.”

Adrienne then went on to say that she feels that Olivia still has a lot of learning to do.

“There’s just a lot of education she needs to do for herself,” Adrienne said. “But I understand that that’s the world they’re in. Her life experiences have not put her in the space where she needs to be concerned about those kinds of things, really. I don’t really know how to address that because it is about how you’re raised and what you’re exposed to.”

You can read more about what Olivia Jade said in her Red Table Talk interview here.

Jada Pinkett Smith Admits She Was Worried About Daughter Willow's Excessive Weed Smoking' - Watch! (Video)

Jada Pinkett Smith is getting candid about her daughter Willow Smith‘s weed use.

The two stars joined Jada‘s mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, in the latest episode of Red Table Talk, in which they discussed how those struggling with addiction are coping amid the global health crisis.

Willow, I’m really proud of you as well, because you have decided to curb your excessive weed smoking,” Jada said during the episode to Willow.

“You always were telling me, you’d be like, ‘Gotta stop that smoking,’” Willow said back.

“Only because as your mother, I could see the effects of it that you couldn’t,” Jada responded.

“And for me, it was like with the history that we have in our family it was driving me crazy,” added Adrienne.

Willow said she hasn’t smoked weed, specifically THC, in three months, and noticed that her “friends” cut ties ever since.

“When I stopped smoking it was a really big, like, eye opener because I was like, there are so many people that I called friends in my life who kind of like…,” she said.

“Drifted away,” Adrienne added.

“I know it sounds so cheesy but around the time I stopped smoking I started doing a lot of yoga. And I just excelled. ‘Cause I was putting all of my energy into that. Like I wasn’t doing anything else and I was like wow, what if I was doing this with everything?” Willow said.

Watch the Red Table Talk discussion…

Jada Pinkett Smith Recalls 'Crying' During Wedding to Will Smith: 'I Never Wanted to be Married'

Jada Pinkett Smith is opening up about her wedding day – and it definitely doesn’t sound like her idea of a fairytale.

During Monday night’s (October 22) episode of her Facebook Watch series, Red Table Talk, the 47-year-old actress revealed that she felt pressured into marrying husband Will Smith back in 1997 because she pregnant with the couple’s first child Jaden.

“It was almost as if my mother [Adrienne Banfield-Jones] was like, ‘You have to get married,’” Jada revealed. “I was under so much pressure being a young actress. Being young, pregnant … I just didn’t know what to do. But I knew I never wanted to be married.”

Jada continued: “I was so upset that I had to have a wedding. I was so pissed…I went crying down the freaking aisle. I cried the whole way down the aisle!”

Also pictured inside: Jada and her mom Adrienne attending the Mamarazzi event on Tuesday (October 23) in New York City.

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Jada Pinkett-Smith Brings Mother Adrienne to Debbie Allen's 'Freeze Frame' Premeire!

Jada Pinkett-Smith happily strikes a pose with her mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones while attending the U.S. premiere of Debbie Allen’s Freeze Frame held at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday (February 4) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The 44-year-old Gotham actress was also joined at the event by Shonda Rhimes, Grey’s Anatomy star James Pickens, Jr., Tony Goldwyn and his sister Liz, Mary J. Blige, Joey McIntyre, Phylicia Rashad, Maria Shriver, Dan Bucatinsky, Nigel Lythgoe, Corbin Bleu and Debbie Allen herself.

Freeze Frame will take audiences on a rollercoaster ride through some of LA’s toughest streets where gangs, poverty, violence, and drugs are an everyday reality.

“It’s like all these souls keep speaking to me and it’s like we’ve got to do something about it,” Debbie told THR. “Yeah, people should be able to have guns. But let’s do it in a safe way. Let’s be reasonable and let’s give some more education and opportunity, and help people that are in need who become desperate.”

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Jada Pinkett-Smith's Mom Adrienne, 61, Might Have the Hottest Bikini Body Ever - See the Impressive Photo!

Jada Pinkett-Smith posted a picture to her Facebook account of her mom, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, age 61, coming out of the ocean in a bikini – and she has quite the enviable body!

Willow took this shot of her grandmother, my mother, emerging from the ocean today. She is 61! I wanna be her when I grow up:) Happy Friday…J” the 43-year-old Gotham actress captioned the photo (it’s the pic on the left). On the right, you can see a shot of Jada from back in 2012, also emerging from the ocean in a bikini. We totally see the family resemblance!

Jada was raised by her mom and grandmother after her mother got pregnant in high school. Her father and mother were married for a few months.

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