The origins of "Red Table Talk" can be traced back to conversations between Jada Pinkett Smith, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, and Willow Smith that took place long before the show came to fruition. "Willow had been asking questions, and it dawned on Jada that there's a lot of things that Willow just doesn't know about us," Banfield-Norris told The New York Times, explaining her daughter's inspiration for the series.
As fans of the show know, "Red Table Talk" is admired for the raw, unfiltered, often emotional conversations held between the three generations of women who seem to share a super close-knit, loving, and unbreakable bond. However, what viewers see on the screen doesn't exactly reflect the real-life relationships between the hosts.
According to Banfield-Norris, the open and honest nature of the hosting trio might lead some viewers to mischaracterize the relationship she has with her daughter, Pinkett Smith. The "Red Table Talk" matriarch told The New York Times, "I think people have this idea that Jada and I are so close, and it's this amazing mother-daughter relationship, [but] it absolutely is not." Added Banfield-Norris, "I think people [just] want to believe that it is that."
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