Actress/director Jada Pinkett Smith has never been tempted to take drugs after a life of witnessing first hand the effects substance abuse had on her family. The star of Matrix Reloaded, who is married to superstar Will Smith, grew up watching close family members struggle with drug addictions.

Pinkett believes that witnessing the daily battles that her loved ones faced has shaped her life and is the reason she has never been tempted to dabble in illegal substances.

She says, “I saw my aunt and mother go through addiction, and how they went in and out of rehab. It affected me a lot.”

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Actress/singer Jada Pinkett Smith has one career goal she’s yet to achieve. Pinkett has revealed that she would like to direct her husband Will Smith on the big screen.

The Matrix Reloaded star admits the Hollywood couple is looking for the perfect project for them to tackle together with her behind the camera calling the shots.

And she reveals Hancock actor Smith was keen to take the lead role in the 2008 drama The Human Contract which Pinkett Smith wrote, directed and starred in.

The couple decided against working together on the project to prevent marital arguments.

She says, “Will wanted to do The Human Contract. He loved the male character but it’s so outside anything he’s ever done and we decided it would be best if he didn’t so that we would stay married!

But it is one of my dreams - to direct Will, but I don’t know if it would be in a big blockbuster. That’s not my style.”

Jada Pinkett Smith arrived wearing this beautiful strapless gown by Zac Posen.

Jada Pinkett Smith has just announced she’ll be starring in and executive producing a new TNT drama called Time Heals. The pilot, created by the Emmy-award winning John Masius, is set at Charlotte Mercy Hospital in North Carolina.

Jada will play Director of Nursing Nancy Hawthorne, who is always up against new challenges, whether it be treating the homeless woman in front of the hospital like a human being or trying to talk a suicidal cancer patient off the ledge.

Nancy is also recently a widow, which adds to the pressure of her character. Between that and her job, she barely has time for herself and has difficulty keeping things together.

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