For comic Mo’Nique, there are three points of her life that aren’t laughing issues: her marriage, her enterprise dealings, and her integrity. The latter two have been a sizzling matter for her since claiming she was blackballed over a decade in the past for refusing to do free promotional work for “Valuable,” a movie that gained her an Oscar in 2010.
Her exposé of the alleged wrongdoings of Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, and Lee Daniels, who directed the movie, was once more delivered to mild when she appeared on the “Membership Shay Shay” podcast to kick off the month of February.
Mo’Nique has lengthy claimed that the media moguls and Daniels have been in cahoots to not halt the unfold of a story that she was “tough” for her unwillingness to do work not outlined in her contract. In her current chat with Shannon Sharpe, she once more reiterated that her exposing the three aforementioned Hollywood figures was about accountability.
She shared comparable messaging in 2019 when she mentioned the hit her profession took from the fallout between herself, Winfrey, Perry, and Daniels with Steve Harvey on his eponymous speak present. Clips of their heated dialogue have resurfaced within the wake of her latest scathing remarks in regards to the methods she has been neglected inside the trade.
Mo’Nique and the “Empire” creator have since made amends. After she settled a four-year battle and discrimination lawsuit with Netflix in 2022, she enlisted Daniels to direct her 2023 comedy particular, “My Title is Mo’Nique,” which may be considered on the streaming platform.
Monique been exposing no person was listening. She’s a Sagittarius so I do know it’s taking place. And Steve Harvey is a SNAKE IN THE GRASS! pic.twitter.com/Jq520KFHqW
— 💍𝒮𝓊𝑔𝒶🫶🏾 ❄️December’s 12/18 Coldest☃️ (@SagittariusN2U) February 9, 2024
“The Parkers” actress first stated that she was harm by Harvey saying on his morning radio present that she burned too many bridges as an alternative of talking straight together with her. On TV, he defined, “I assumed you went about it incorrect. See, I felt you had finished your self a disservice by the best way you selected to go about it.”
The “Household Feud” host additionally admitted that they ultimately spoke privately, the place he stated she had not finished something incorrect by saying no to doing free work.
Nonetheless, he additionally added, “Once you inform the reality, you must cope with the repercussions. We Black out right here. We will’t come out right here and do any means we wish to… We gotta flex a distinct means. We within the cash sport. This ain’t the Black man’s sport, this ain’t the white man’s sport, it’s the cash sport.”
She responded, “Earlier than the cash sport, it’s the integrity sport, and we’ve misplaced the integrity worrying in regards to the cash.”
An X consumer who posted the resurfaced clips wrote, “Monique been exposing no person was listening. She’s a Sagittarius so I do know it’s taking place. And Steve Harvey is a snake within the grass!” One other consumer commented, “Even after she stated he harm her along with his phrases, there was no apology. They’re actually simply making an attempt to easy issues over for the powers that be.”
“Persons are afraid of the reality.” “If the messenger doesn’t match what individuals ought to assume the messenger’s imagined to appear to be”
Mo’Nique says Steve Harvey was incorrect & she confirms Katt Williams was telling the reality. #ClubShayShay #MoNique @PluggedNMedia_
(🎥 @ClubShayShay ) pic.twitter.com/B6a3hp1tg0
— Jay Black (@JayBlackWorld_) February 7, 2024
When she addressed Harvey’s recommendation on the podcast, she stated it was one other means by which the Black neighborhood has been taught to not name out perpetrators of its ache.
“We swallow that ache. That’s why individuals have such an issue with Katt Williams. Individuals have an issue with individuals that claims, ‘I’m going to inform the reality,” defined Mo’Nique. “It triggered a raucous. And you’ll say why are individuals upset with the reality? Once you hear Steve Harvey say there are repercussions once you inform the reality…ought to I inform a lie and get a reward?”
In the long run, she stated individuals had extra of a problem together with her being the messenger than her precise phrases.
Following the explosive episode, Mo’Nique introduced that was becoming a member of Katt Williams‘ “Darkish Matter Tour.” He appeared on the podcast in January, the place he slammed Kevin Hart, Harvey and others as the primary visitor of the 12 months. Kevin’s ex-wife, Torrei Hart, additionally controversially joined the tour amid the lads’s feud.
