Willow Smith Opens Up About 'Extreme Anxiety' With Mom Jada On ‘Red Table Talk’

Willow Smith got candid about her emotional state on the latest episode of "Red Table Talk."

Willow opened up about her "extreme anxiety" with her mom Jada Pinkett Smith and grandmother Andrienne Banfield-Norris on their web TV talk show "Red Table Talk." The 20-year-old singer described vividly what happened to her a couple of days ago when she was overwhelmed.

"Four days ago, I was having extreme anxiety. I couldn't talk, I had to just cocoon and like be with myself for a moment," she was quoted by Entertainment Tonight, as saying.

"That was so important because it would have been so much more intense if I had been looking to you to be like, 'Help me!'" she turned to her mom and continued.

Willow tried to calm herself and when she felt she was more in control and was ready, "I opened the cocoon."

The special episode of "Red Table Talk" featured suicide attempt survivors as they opened up about their experiences and how they made it through. Willow shared how she could relate to them when it comes to dealing with an emotional crisis and how lonely it can be for one to struggle with anxiety and other mental health problems.

"There's shame, there's guilt, there's sadness and confusion," she continued. "And then you don't even want to talk about it because you're like, 'I feel crazy, and I don't want them to think I'm crazy so I'm just not gonna say anything.'"

It wasn't the first time Willow opened up about her emotional and mental state. In 2018, she also opened up about her history with self-harm. The trio were talking about surviving loss on the same show at the time and Jada was shocked after learning that her daughter once engaged in self-harm.

"I would have to say, honestly, I feel like I lost my sanity at one point," Willow was quoted by Teen Vogue, as saying at the time.

Willow recalled that it happened after she released her song "Whip My Hair." Following its massive success she found herself stopping doing singing lessons and felt that she was in a gray area. She started to ask for her purpose and what else she could do in her life.

"After the tour and the promotion and all of that, they wanted me to finish my album," she shared. "And I was like, 'No, I'm not gonna do that.' And after all of that kinda settled down and it was like a kind of lull, I was just listening to a lot of dark music. It was just so crazy, and I was plunged into this black hole, and I was, like, cutting myself."