Mo’Nique is way from completed calling out Tyler Perry. After the mogul condemned the trade’s mistreatment of Angie Stone, Mo’Nique fired again with an open letter and leaked audio (once more), accusing Perry of treating her the very same method.
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As beforehand reported, Perry spoke on the late singer’s funeral and blasted the predatory music trade for failing to compensate the songstress for her expertise adequately. The director stated he was “offended” about it and ranted concerning the cash owed to her earlier than she handed.
“Y’all acquired to forgive me as a result of I’m offended on the method she was handled. I didn’t know all of the issues that she was going by way of [until] just lately,” he stated about just lately resurfaced claims that Stone was owed tens of millions in unpaid royalties.
“To assume that this girl was within the enterprise for all of those years, and there’s a distinction between performing since you need to and performing as a result of it’s a must to.
“All of these years, all of these songs, all of that cash that was owed to her — the place is it? It’s flawed, that is flawed, and I’m bored with seeing us wrestle and undergo issues and work arduous and never reap the advantages of what we had been presupposed to reap,” he added.
Sadly for Tyler Perry, Mo’Nique heard his feedback and took to Instagram to name him out, accusing him of hypocrisy because of his previous mistreatment of her.
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In her letter, the actress—who has constantly claimed that Perry, Oprah, and Lee Daniels “blackballed” her—revealed that she and her husband, Sidney Hicks, have audio of Perry admitting his wrongdoing and promising to apologize.
- “You condemned Angie’s mistreatment however labeled me “tough to work with”—regardless of by no means really working with me. How are you going to advocate for equity whereas perpetuating the identical therapy? We’ve got audio of you admitting you had been flawed,” wrote Mo’Nique.
2. You requested, “The place’s the cash she’s owed?” Effectively, the place’s the general public apology you promised me in 2016? The false narrative you fueled blackballed me, costing me tens of tens of millions. The place’s the restitution for that?
3. You spoke about being “drained” of Black artists not getting what they deserve. But, you requested me to advertise Valuable without spending a dime—with no contract, with out compensation. How does that align together with your message?
4. You preached about treating “kids of God” with care. As a person of religion, the place is your accountability to behave with love and fact? You assured me of an apology years in the past, but it has by no means come.
Not like the music trade, which you rightly criticized, we’ve audio documentation of your actions. Shouldn’t you be held accountable, too? I actually hope your phrases at Angie Stone’s funeral encourage you to proper the wrongs accomplished to my household and me. You could have the ability to take action.
As you typically reference scripture, let me go away you with this: “What is going to it revenue a person to achieve the entire world however lose his soul?” (Mark 8:36) We await your response.”
Actress Leaks Audio Of Tyler Perry Telephone Name
To additional emphasize her level, Mo’Nique leaked a recorded cellphone name with the filmmaker, which she had beforehand leaked in 2020, amid Will Smith’s apology to actress Janet Hubert.
Within the audio, Tyler might be heard telling Mo’Nique that “it’s heartbreaking” to listen to that he upset her. He additionally famous that he wrote one thing along with her in thoughts however finally determined to not ship it as a result of his distributor, Lionsgate, the identical studio that distributed Valuable that Mo’Nique claims, tried to get her to do promotional work for the movie without spending a dime.
“I simply watched your podcast and it actually broke my coronary heart and I really feel you,” stated Tyler Perry within the name. “For me, I’m not anybody that wishes to harm or upset anyone particularly you. It’s simply heartbreaking, I don’t ever need you to assume that I’m making an attempt to blackball.
I had written one thing and I used to be pondering,’ Ought to I despatched this to her?’–however Lionsgate would’ve had a match.”
Later within the cellphone name, he speaks to Mo’Nique’s husband, Sidney Hicks, and says he’ll deal with Mo’s blackball allegations on his subsequent press tour. Whereas he didn’t do this, he by no means outright stated within the cellphone name that he’d apologize.
Mo’Nique Made Amends With Lee Daniels, Nonetheless Upset With Oprah & Tyler Perry
As beforehand reported, Mo’Nique and Lee Daniels made amends in 2022 at a cease on her comedy tour. After the 2 hugged, Lee publicly apologized.
“Typically in life you get caught up,” stated Daniels. “I’m so sorry for hurting you in any method that I did, Y’all, and he or she was my finest good friend — my finest good friend. Y’all assume that Valuable was simply … That was God working, by way of each of us.”
As a mea culpa, Mo’Nique was solid in Lee Daniels’ 2024 Netflix thriller, Deliverance.
She has but to bury the hatchet with Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey.
