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Mo’Nique is doubling down on her claims that Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry ‘kicked her out’ of Hollywood, and now she’s also taking aim at Tiffany Haddish over a past investigation.
The Academy Award winner, 56, did so during an explosive new interview with Shannon Sharpe about his Shay Shay Club Podcast.
His feud with Winfrey and Perry dates back to 2009. He previously claimed that her refusal to promote her film Precious for “free,” as well as the omission of Perry, Winfrey and director Lee Daniels from her 2010 Oscars speech, led to being on the “black list”.
Mo’Nique now claims she has audio of Perry confessing over the phone that he was the one who started the rumor that she’s “difficult to work with.”
She also alleged that Perry admitted he was “wrong” and told her he planned to publicly vindicate her after her 2016 film Boo hit theaters.
Sharpe confirmed that he heard the alleged audio himself, but it was not played on the podcast. Mo’Nique insists the way he recorded the call with Perry was “legal.”
DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for Winfrey, Perry and Haddish for comment.
After the recorded conversation, Mo’Nique claimed that Perry told singer Stephanie Mills that he would only meet her face-to-face without her husband Sidney Hicks, who is also her manager, present.
He also allegedly demanded that she “publicly apologize” to him and Oprah and say that they “had nothing to do with ruining (her) career.”
Mo’Nique rejected the alleged request, telling Sharpe that she thinks Perry is intimidated by how “direct” Sidney is.
It’s important to note that Perry has repeatedly denied Mo’Nique’s blackmail allegations.
When it comes to Oprah, Mo’Nique believes the A-list star frequently went “overboard” with her over the years, particularly when Oprah brought Mo’Nique’s brother Gerald onto her talk show day.
Mo’Nique previously revealed in 2008 that Gerald abused her when she was between 7 and 11 years old.
The episode took place after Mo’Nique won the Oscar for Precious, just as their feud was brewing behind the scenes, and involved not only Gerald but also his mother, father, and other brother.
She claims Oprah called her before taping to inform her that Gerald had approached her about coming on the show to “apologise” and share how parents can protect their children from predators.
Oprah allegedly asked the actress if she would like to go on the show, but she declined because she didn’t want anything to do with Gerald.
She said Oprah told her that if she didn’t want her brother to be on the show, she would cancel it entirely, and Mo’Nique said she respected her for that.
However, he began watching commercials for the show and learned that not only Gerald would be on the show, but also his mother, father, and other brother.
He claimed that Oprah never said they were going to be on the show and that the actress was in a “bad place” with her mother.
Mo’Nique later accused Oprah of stealing two movie roles from her after the Precious fallout.
She stated that she was originally asked to play the role of Gloria Ganyes in Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013), as well as Richard Pryor’s grandmother in Daniel’s yet-to-be-made biopic about the late stand-up star. Both roles ended up going to Oprah.
She speculated that the TV icon’s status as a billionaire has made it easier for him to get what he asks for from movie studios.
As for her beef with Haddish, Mo’Nique cited a 2018 interview with GQ in which the comedian criticized her husband and manager Sidney.
The interview was published amid calls for Mo’Nique to boycott Netflix over its alleged “gender and color bias” when it came to paying comedians for their specials.
She claimed she was only paid $500,000 for her special, while male comedians like Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock received multimillion-dollar payments.
He then sued the streamer in 2019 for discrimination. In response to the lawsuit, a Netflix spokesperson said the company takes any allegations of discrimination “very seriously” and that they planned to fight the lawsuit.
They reached a private agreement in 2022.
When GQ raised the issue with Haddish, she responded: ‘My business is different from yours. I don’t live his life. I don’t have that husband of yours.
This deeply angered Mo’Nique and she finally responded to Haddish during her meeting with Sharpe, even going so far as to mention Haddish’s recent legal problems.
“When I saw that, I felt like Tiffany, if you had a husband like mine (then) you wouldn’t have two DUI cases,” Mo’Nique said.
Haddish, 44, was arrested in the early hours of Nov. 24, 2023, in Beverly Hills, California, in connection with DUI, when officers found her sleeping in her car with the engine running, which was parked on busy Beverly Drive. at that moment.
She was previously arrested on January 14, 2022 in Peachtree City, Georgia, after officers found her sleeping behind the wheel of her car.
For her most recent offense, Haddish accepted a plea deal for reckless driving and her two misdemeanor DUI charges were dropped after appearing in a Los Angeles court in December.
He ended up accepting a conviction for reckless driving and pleaded no contest to the traffic violation.