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Mo’Nique held nothing back as she spoke to several top comedians and opened up more about some ongoing feuds in a scathing new podcast interview.
The Oscar-winning star of “Precious” appeared Wednesday at the Podcast “Club Shay Shay”, where he shot Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart and Oprah Winfrey. Throughout the interview, she also argued that she had not received the same opportunities in Hollywood that she would receive if she were white and that she had effectively been banned for previous comments she had made to the same effect.
“If I were a white woman, my name would be Melissa McCarthy,” she told host Shannon Sharpe. “Same track record. Sitcom five years in syndication. Same track record. Opportunities aren’t the same.”
The comedian, who settled a discrimination lawsuit against Netflix in 2022, starred in the comedy “The Parkers,” while McCarthy starred in “Mike & Molly.”
Mo’Nique criticizes Tiffany Haddish for past comments
At one point in the wide-ranging three-hour conversation, Mo’Nique criticized comedian Tiffany Haddish for a 2018 comment the “Girls Trip” star made about her husband Sidney Hicks, who is also her manager.
in a interview with gq At the time, Haddish spoke about Mo’Nique’s call to boycott Netflix saying, “My business is different than hers. I don’t live her life. I don’t have that husband of hers.”
Mo’Nique responded: “When I saw that, I thought, Tiffany, if you had a husband like mine, you might not get two DUIs. If you had a husband like mine, you might not get caught up in what it seems like. You could having been preparing a child.
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Haddish was arrested for DUI for the second time in two years in November, after she was named in a lawsuit alleging sexual assault, sexual harassment and sexual abuse of a minor in 2022. The allegations arose from a sketch that Haddish said was ” “It was intended to be comical,” but “it wasn’t funny at all.”
Haddish added: “I deeply regret agreeing to act in it.” The suit was later dismissed at the plaintiff’s request.
Mo’Nique on ‘lack of communication’ with Kevin Hart
Another target in Mo’Nique’s interview was Kevin Hart.
She alleged that after appearing on the comedian’s podcast, Hart offered to partner with her to executive produce any project she wanted. But Mo’Nique claimed that when she tried to talk to him about this, she learned that Hart’s manager was supposedly letting her know that Hart didn’t really want “anything to do” with her.
According to Mo’Nique, Hart blamed it on a “miscommunication” but never heard from him again in the two years since. Mo’Nique, however, gave Hart “appropriate credit” for writing his family a check when they were “up against the wall.”
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Mo’Nique says Oprah Winfrey ‘betrayed me’
Mo’Nique also revisited her years-long feud with Oprah Winfrey. who in 2010 invited members of Mo’Nique’s estranged family to her talk show. “You betrayed me, sister,” Mo’Nique said of Winfrey, adding, “Family is sacred and we don’t cross the line with family.”
Mo’Nique’s appearance on the podcast came after Katt Williams appeared on the “Club Shay Shay” podcast in January, where he similarly made a long list of names, from Cedric the Entertainer to Steve Harvey.
