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Actress Sandra Bullock recently appeared on a new episode of "Red Table Talk" where she candidly spoke about the time when her house (Bel Air residence) was broken into, and she was all-alone and how that incident has affected her to her core to date.

The 57-year-old actress shared with Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Jada’s mother, Adrienne Banfield Norris, "My house was broken into while I was in it. I'm in the closet going, This doesn't end well. I'm in the closet, [which] is not going to help. It was the one night that Louis wasn't with me. It was the one night that our nanny went, Let me just take him to my apartment, which is up the street because you're going to be out late."

Sandra’s adopted son, whom she adopted in 2010 when he was 3 and a half months old. Sharing further, the actress said, "Had he been home, I would've run to the closet, which is now my official closet, but that was his bedroom, and it would have changed our destiny forever. So why was he not home that one night? And the violation of that, I wasn't the same after that. I was unraveling. I haven't been alone since the day it happened".

Sandra Bullock revealed that she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), followed by the home invasion, which took place seven years ago. At the time of the invasion, the police said that they had arrested a man named Joshua Corbett, who was suspected of residential burglary. Joshua was later charged with 19 felonies, among which seven counts of possession of a machine gun were included.

Sandra Bullock further revealed that she began with Eye Movement Desensitization (EMD) or reprocessing therapy to help her process the trauma. Image Source: CNN

Joshua Corbett committed suicide in 2018 after a standoff with police. Sandra Bullock, acknowledging Joshua’s suicide, said, "What’s sad is that the system failed him. There was an altercation with SWAT and he killed himself. "

In the same episode, Willow Smith also shared her personal experience of her cyberstalker breaking into her house while she was away on vacation. The singer-actress had previously detailed the incident in October. She said, "I'm used to people saying things online. I'm used to having thousands and thousands of people with not very good things to say. I've been cyberbullied my whole life. Cyberstalking is a little more insidious and scary." Willow Smith also discussed the increasing problem of cyberstalking with her mother and grandmother.

Willow said, "They're watching all of your social media accounts to see what your movements are. And this guy was doing that to me, and he had been doing that to me for a couple of years, actually, and he got my patterns. During December, when we were gone on a family vacation, he came to my house and broke in while we were away." Jada Pinkett Smith called the man who invaded the house a "pedophile" and said that she had to go to court to testify. She further said, "They only gave me a certain amount of time for a restraining order. I wanted to extend it, but for some reason, they said that I couldn't, and I would have to testify again. I would have to come back to court again. The good thing is that he is in custody.

Sandra and Willow discussed their PTSD, and Sandra shared that she would end up "sobbing" in unexpected moments. Explaining the same, she said, "I would look left out of a car. Not right. I would look left, and I would start sobbing. And I thought to myself, I’m a single parent and this child is going to absorb nothing but fear, trauma, and shame from me in the most pivotal times of his life, and I was like, "I don’t want to drop that load of baggage onto my beautiful child."

Sandra Bullock further revealed that she began with Eye Movement Desensitization (EMD) or reprocessing therapy to help her process the trauma. The Eye Movement Desensitization psychotherapy method is used to help individuals recover from trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders, among other conditions. 'The Unforgivable' actress admitted that sometimes she wishes that she and her kids had the same skin color. 

Sandra also adopted her daughter Laila in 2015 and commented, "To say that I wish our skins matched, sometimes I do. Because then it would be easier to manage how people approach us. And I have the same feelings as a woman with brown skin having her babies or a white woman with white babies." Willow Smith lastly added, "It’s the mother-child dynamic and there is no color."

Sandra Bullock with her kids Laila and Louis along with Bryan Randall. Image Source: In Touch Weekly

During the same interview, Sandra Bullock shared that she had an incredibly hard time while adopting her kids and foster care system. She shared, "It's a system that exists and people don't know about it because it's a difficult thing to talk about. It gets deep and it gets dark. When I first went through the process myself, you have to prove that you are a capable parent. You're in the judgment cage. I got halfway through it and I said, I can't do this."

The actress further mentioned that that was an out-of-body experience where the authorizes sit down and ask you, questions like, “so what do you think is the worst kind of abuse? What is the worst kind of drug, or alcohol?” To which the actress said she responded that all are bad and she knew that if she answer this right, she might not be fit to adopt. But even though the process is tedious and stressful, the desire of being a parent keeps one going. Sandra Bullock lastly added, "Because that soul deserves to have those questions asked and when they find it and connect you with it, you'll understand."

The Unforgivable will be out on December 10th, 2021.