Mo'Nique is opening up about her high-profile feud with Oprah Winfrey.
Everything started in 2004 when she met Daniels. The following year, she appeared in his directorial debut, From there, Mo'Nique says, she and Daniels"never stopped communicating," all the way up to her starring role in the 2009 film The film quickly earned critical praise and was part of the awards season discussion, something that Daniels, along with producers Winfrey and Perry, wanted to capitalize on.
As for why she didn't want to fly to France to promote her critically acclaimed film, Mo'Nique tells "I said, 'Oprah, I'm doing a talk show. I'm doing a comedy tour. I have a husband and I have babies,'" Mo'Nique recalls."'I have a little bit of downtime and I'm going to take advantage of it. So I'm not going anywhere because I'm not obligated to go anywhere. I’ve done my part.' So we mutually agreed to disagree. That was it.
"It was my third marriage. My second round of children. So I understood by then that when you sacrifice everything for a place called Hollywood, you wind up being by yourself," she explains."I know the history before me. I know those stories. And not only did those women die broke, they died brokenhearted. They died lonely because they gave everything to a business -- and in the end it gave them nothing.
"We weren't even speaking," she says of her mother."Then I see the show and I can tell that my mother is trying to make a dollar. I know my family." "I said, 'Since you didn't want to return my calls, for whatever reason, I'm going to say this right here,'" Mo'Nique recalls, sharing that she then questioned Winfrey on her parents' involvement in the episode.
Mo'Nique was moved by Daniels' gesture."For five months he edited the film. And he says to me and my husband that night, 'Guys, I don't want anything for it. Mo, I'm just glad I could do it. And I'm proud for the performance that you did.'"
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