The age-old query: can one purchase happiness with money? There are some who say it can’t happen and others who say it absolutely will. Recent studies have shown that it can purchase at least temporary pleasure for some people.
The most successful and well-paid celebrities, according to this logic, should also be the happiest. However, the opposite is true.
Will Smith recently went on Kevin Hart’s talk programme Hart to Heart and said how his family was far from happy despite their enormous success between 2010 and 2012.
The 54-year-old told Hart that 2010 was his “greatest year as an artist,” despite the fact that “nobody in my family was happy.”
“By 2012, I had accomplished everything of which I had dreamed,” he remarked. The experience “was my first realisation that success and money do not mean happiness,” Smith said.
“Until then, I truly believed that you could succeed your way to a house and a family and that you could win your way to happiness,” she says.
Smith’s career was flourishing, and his kids’ professions were taking off as well. Now 25, Jaden had appeared in The Karate Kid, and 22-year-old Willow had debuted with “Whip My Hair.” Smith said that his daughter Willow had initiated the “mutiny.”
Willow, then nine years old, said in 2018 that she had experienced mental health issues after the success of her first song.
“I honestly feel like I lost my sanity at one point,” she added. “I had just stopped taking singing lessons after the whole ‘Whip My Hair’ thing, and I was in this limbo where I was like, ‘Who am I?'”
Do I serve a greater good? Is there anything else I could be doing instead of this? “After all of that kind of settled down.
I was listening to a lot of dark music and it was just so crazy and I was just plunged into this black hole and I was, like, cutting myself and doing crazy things,” she said on an episode of her mother Jada Pinkett-Smith’s Red Table Talk.
I have to forgive you and Daddy for the entire ‘Whip My Hair’ incident’, Willow said to her mum. “Mostly it was Daddy, since he could be so stern at times. Since I never felt heard or like anybody cared about how I was feeling, it took me a while to build trust again.