Willow used to selfharm after hit single

Singer Willow Smith says that she resorted to selfharm when she shot to fame after releasing her hit single, Whip My Hair, in 2010.

The 17-year-old, who is the daughter of Hollywood actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith, was barely 10 when she became a singing sensation.

The fame was a case of ‘too much too soon’ and the singer, still a young girl, couldn’t cope. Willow now says that she suddenly suffered from an existential crisis after receiving such early success; that led her to start cutting her wrists.

“It was after that whole Whip My Hair thing and I had just stopped doing singing lessons and I was kind of just in this grey area of, ‘Who am I? Do I have a purpose? Is there anything I can do besides this?’

“After the tour and the promotion and all of that, they wanted me to finish my album. And I was like, ‘I’m not gonna do that.’ And after all of that kinda settled down and it was like a kind of lull, I was just listening to a lot of dark music. It was just so crazy and I was plunged into this black hole, and I was cutting myself,” Willow says to mum Jada on her Red Table Talk series. Her mother was shocked by the confession, and asked, “What? When were you cutting yourself? I didn’t see that part. Cutting yourself where?”

To which Willow responded, “On my wrist. I mean, you can’t even see it, but there’s still a little something there. But like, totally lost my sanity for a moment there. I never talk about it because it was such a short weird point in my life. But you have to pull yourself out of it.”

Jada also shares son Jaden, 19, with Will Smith. The teen is also a rapper, like his dad.

PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK Willow Smith sang Whip My Hair when she was 10