Speaking with Shannon Sharpe on his platform Club Shay Shay, Mo’Nique had a many of things to address, number one being the inequality she has experienced as a black woman in Hollywood being paid fairly.
She also spoke of Taraji P Henson experiencing the similar treatment of inequality with Sharpe asking Mo’Nique why people weren’t receptive of her message as opposed to Taraji’s.
“Taraji and I had a conversation over a decade ago in my trailer when I was doing The Monique Show. And she said, ‘You know, you gotta keep on getting it until your turn comes.’ And I said, ‘Taraji, most of us die before our turn comes. We gotta ask for it right now.’ Now, I understand that because there was a time I felt the same way because that’s what I was told.”
She continued, “It was the messenger,” she said. “I should just be grateful I got invited to the party. ‘You’re a big, fat Black woman. How dare you be the one.'”
She further explained, “And then on top of that, “You’re saying names. You’re saying Oprah’s name out loud. You’re saying Tyler’s name out loud. You’re saying Lee’s name out loud. You’re saying Lionsgate out loud. That’s not what we do. We say ‘they.’ We say the people. We say the studio. We say the producers. How dare you actually say our heroes names? These are our heroes. How could you say their names out loud?”
She also expressed her thoughts on Katt Williams’ interview on the same platform where she said he told the truth.
“Everything Katt Williams sat here and said, we all know it to be the truth. However, we get so caught up in, ‘Well, I ain’t gonna say nothing. Can you believe he said it?’ It’s the messenger, baby. We get so caught up in the messenger that we’ll overlook the message. People have a hard time hearing a 5’5″ giant tell the truth, people have a hard time with a Black woman over 200 pounds tell the truth. People that look like us, we should just be grateful we got invited to the party.” she detailed.
Mo’Nique also called out Tiffany Haddish for previous comments Haddish said about her and her husband.
“My business run different than her business. I don’t live her life. I don’t have that husband of hers,” she said. “When I saw that, it’s like, Tiffany, if you had a husband like mine, you may not have two DUIs. If you had a husband like mine, you may not be caught up in what looks like you could have been grooming a child.”
Directly speaking on how Oprah hurt her in 2010 when she invited family members that she had been estranged with as she says: “She didn’t have to call me and say, ‘I’m gonna have your brother [on]. I start seeing commercials with my mother and my father … and my other brother who used to be my manager, who knew the fear I had with the brother who was up on stage. We never talked about my mother being there. I understand it. But you betrayed me, sister.
“Family is sacred, and we don’t cross the line with family. Had Oprah Winfrey said, ‘I’m [going to] have your mama [on the show],’ I would have said, ‘Shut that s—t down. I don’t need not one seeing my momma be greedy, I don’t need the world to see, shut it down”
