Jada Pinkett Smith Recalls Incident With ‘Aggressive’ Ex-Boyfriend She’ll ‘Never Forget’ The actress opened up about fearing for her life on a new ‘Red Table Talk.’ Pinkett Smith talked about a time when she had to protect herself from a former boyfriend with a knife. “I’ve definitely been in relationships that have been emotionally abusive. I think emotional violence is really prevalent.” - Jada Pinkett Smith, via ‘Red Table Talk’ She explained the two were leaving a restaurant and that “he had been drinking and he was driving” when he got aggressive. “Thank goodness I knew where I was and I knew how to get out of the car and get to the house. I ran to the house. I had to take my clothes off, take off my heels. I always travel with a black Russell hoodie and black Russell sweats.” - Jada Pinkett Smith, via ‘Red Table Talk’ She grabbed a knife and hid in the house before he entered the house through the back door. “He said the quintessential line you hear in movies all the time, ‘You think I would hurt you? I would never do that to you.'” The actress knew it wasn’t safe and put a stop to the relationship with the help of Spike Lee. “Spike Lee saved me from that one. Spike had been calling me about Girl 6. I used Spike as an excuse to get on that plane and [her former boyfriend] said right then and there, ‘I’ll never see you again, will I?’… I got on that plane and he never saw me again.” - Jada Pinkett Smith, via ‘Red Table Talk’