Jada Pinkett recalls calling Angelina Jolie over alarming issue
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Jada Pinkett Smith revealed how she reached out to Angelina Jolie after her then 12-year-old daughter, Willow, approached her with some shocking revelations.

In her bombshell memoir Worthy, the talk show host reflected on getting in touch with the Maleficent actor when Willow told her about human trafficking and forced sex work within the US.

Jada penned that Willow told her, “Mom, you won’t believe what’s happening. Did you know girls my age are being sold for sex in our own country?”

Her knowledge of the issue came after watching the documentary Kony 2012, exposing the trafficking of Ugandan children coerced into becoming soldiers under Joseph Kony’s command, a cult and militia leader.

Jada contacted Jolie, who has been vocal about the issue, after Willow became an advocate for the cause.

As Jada writes in her memoir, “one of my first calls was to Angelina Jolie, who was then fighting for refugees around the world.”

In her praise of Jolie, Jada wrote, “I had long admired Angelina’s commitment to activism.”

“She generously introduced me to a lawyer named Adam Waldman, who introduced me to survivors when I visited safe houses around the country,” she said.