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Deal Breaker: Jada Pinkett-Smith Reveals The One 'Factor' That Ended All Of Her Relationships With White Men

The actress was not willing to budge on this one.

Jada Pinkett-Smith is sharing details on her past relationships with white men, specifically explaining why they all failed, and her reasoning may be relatable to many other Black women and men who have pursued interracial relationships, themselves.

During Monday's episode of her Facebook Watch series, Red Table Talk, the actress shared that, while she's dated Caucasian men in the past, the relationships never lasted due to the vast differences in how they respectively viewed race.

"I have dated some really wonderful white men but it was interesting in that you're dating someone who has no idea what oppression is," she said. "He's at the top of the food chain. He doesn't understand. It's a very hard thing for him to be able to relate to. It was always the factor in the relationship that made it break."

On the same episode, she was joined by Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo who openly spoke on her interracial marriage with music producer Chris Ivery. Through this, she opened up about receiving backlash for using Black fist emojis after calling out a network for promoting a show on the lives on family members with the Ku Klux Klan.

Her bold vocalization eventually brought an end to the series before it even aired.

"A&E walked it back, said, 'We're sorry, we're pulling it,'" she said.

Watch the clip from the episode, below:

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