1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: Thank you for coming back. Part two is underway more. 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: Obviously when you do when you do stand up, you 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: go to a lot of different cities, a lot of 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: different club Yes, it's a lot of different promoters. Has 5 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: everybody always been on the up and up with Monique? 6 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: Or did you try to Sometimes people try to take advantage. 7 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,960 Speaker 1: You're female, you're black, you heady, You're. 8 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 2: Not gonna say that, like mister from Color Purple. You're black, 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 2: you ugly, You're not gonna do that shit. 10 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 1: But you know, people try to take people would would 11 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: try to take advantage of anyone, but. 12 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 3: Seemingly like us, that she were willing to take more advantage. 13 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 2: I've had to tell the promoters, call the police because 14 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 2: either they're gonna come get you or me. 15 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 3: They try to hold up on the money. 16 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 2: Call the police because and this was like seventy five dollars. 17 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 2: Can you imagine seventy five dollars? Like you know where 18 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 2: we come from. Yeah, if somebody gets you for twenty 19 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 2: five dollars, that's a problem. Yeah, imagine twenty five million. Yeah, 20 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:09,759 Speaker 2: we've seen people lose their life for twenty five dollars. 21 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 2: Imagine somebody getting you for millions. How you supposed to feel. 22 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 2: Would you let it go? Nah? Hell no? Right, So 23 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 2: when people say more just let it go. 24 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, But if even for people to say let it 25 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: go when they haven't lost anything, come on, baby, it's 26 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 1: easy to say, come on, But when you've lost, how 27 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: do you it's kind of like it's kind of like, 28 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: you know, a someone should just get over it. 29 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 2: You should. 30 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: You can't tell somebody how to grieve, how long to grieve, 31 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: because you're not the one that's hurting. 32 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 2: They didn't do it to you. They didn't do it 33 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 2: to you. It was done. And I will say this 34 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 2: right now on your show. I still love y'all. We 35 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 2: still love y'all. 36 00:01:57,840 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 3: You love morey make it make it right? 37 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 2: My husband, okay, say that again, because. 38 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 3: Y'all make it right. 39 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, okay, I'll fix them a pand cake. My 40 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 2: husband would always say, Mama, we ain't calling nobody out. 41 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 2: We're calling them up. And if we continue to call 42 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 2: us up on our doings that are not right, we 43 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 2: get better as a people, like we get better. Do 44 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 2: you know why things were able to happen like that 45 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 2: happened on the color purple? 46 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 3: Why? Oh, you're talking about the reback? You talking about what. 47 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 2: I'm talking about, the seventh one, the one that just 48 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 2: came out right right, and at the seventh edition. 49 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 3: It's like the musical with Fantasia and Taji. 50 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 2: Right right, right, right, right right, that one with all 51 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 2: our beautiful systems. You know why they're able to treat 52 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 2: us like they treat us? How are you hand picked 53 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 2: in your audition? 54 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: No? 55 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 3: If you handt picked you on a edition. 56 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 2: I want you to say that again, Shannon, because people 57 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 2: don't understand how deep this goes. When I watched my 58 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 2: sister say it was an honor to be hand picked, right, then, 59 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 2: whyever would you audition? 60 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 3: Yeah? 61 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 2: And the moment, in my opinion, the moment she auditioned, 62 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 2: they knew we got them. We can treat them any 63 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 2: kind of way we want to treat them, We can 64 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 2: do them any kind of way. 65 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: But why would you want to? Because you can, that 66 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: doesn't mean you should. 67 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 2: But they did. But they did. How do you handpick 68 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 2: me and then mistreat me? And then I got to 69 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 2: send a letter to you about the mistreatment that you 70 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 2: gave me. That's why they're able to get away with it. 71 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 2: That's why when I do interviews oftentimes or these conversations. 72 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 2: People are too afraid to even address it because they 73 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 2: don't want to be caught up like, oh, I don't 74 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 2: I don't know when you said way a mine naught. 75 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 2: That's the truth. I heard it, and I don't want 76 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 2: my character to be on the line as I'm being 77 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 2: a person sitting there asking people about their lives and 78 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 2: then not be able to stand in what I've heard. 79 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 2: That's why it made so much. It was important for us. 80 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 2: It was important for us to get you that audio. 81 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 2: I don't want you to take my word and anything 82 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 2: I've said on this couch right now that don't take 83 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 2: my word. Ask those people, Ask those people and see 84 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 2: what happens. And then maybe after this come out, they're 85 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 2: gonna label me again. She's bitter. 86 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: She's not like, yeah, you go, first, thing gonna be better. 87 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 2: I just want to look at your camera. Okay. And 88 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 2: and here's the thing, because I got a king at home. 89 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 2: I'm not bitter. 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Last minute tickets lowest price guaranteed. 117 00:05:55,279 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 3: When did Mo get up? First? Big breaking in comedy? 118 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 2: You follow theater and the sister that stay out front, 119 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 2: that had the Jerry Carl. If she liked you, everybody 120 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 2: liked you. If she did not like you, nobody liked you. 121 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 2: And when I saw that woman standing to her feet, 122 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 2: baby good, I was good. There was so many moments were. 123 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: You nervous to go on a follow because you know 124 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: if everybody know. 125 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 2: About to follow, you're nervous every time. 126 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 3: You still get nervous to go over. 127 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 2: Free time, baby, and not the nervous when you're scared. 128 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 2: It's just that like oh I get to do it again, 129 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 2: Like when you go out to the field, it's like ooh, 130 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 2: it's that I still get that. 131 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, Wow, that's I mean to hear you speaking to 132 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: see like how passionate you are a very very passionate 133 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: person about everything. 134 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 2: I love us. I loved us. Like when I say 135 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 2: I love my people, I love my people, Shannon, I 136 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 2: love us. I love everybody but my people. I love us. 137 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 2: So when I speak on things, it's not the drop 138 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 2: shade mess or tie. I'm too damn grown for that. 139 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 2: I'm fifty six and a grandmother who got time for that? 140 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 2: But I say it because will it make us better? 141 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 2: Will it make us come to the table and say, 142 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 2: you know what do we really leave for the babies 143 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 2: that's coming behind us? That means something to me when 144 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 2: I talk about them damn bonnets? Let me tell you. 145 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 3: Something, Yeah you sail? 146 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: Hey, come on, can we like when we come out 147 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: the house? Can we not have the bonnets on? Can 148 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: we not have the pajamas on? Can we not have 149 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: the house hoes? 150 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 3: Going in? 151 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 2: The the whole damn Halloween costume. That's a Halloween costume 152 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 2: that you wear on Halloween. And I am passionate about 153 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 2: that because what is the representation that we're giving to 154 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 2: the little girls that's walking behind you? What is the 155 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 2: representation that we're giving to our black men that's walking 156 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 2: beside What is the reputation that we're given. And when 157 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 2: they would say to me, oh, Monique, you don't know 158 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 2: what they're going through. We always been going through something. Yes, 159 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 2: we was going through something when we got off the 160 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 2: damn boat. We've been going through something. But once you 161 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 2: lose the pride and the dignity of of what you 162 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 2: feel like you look like, then we've lost, So I 163 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 2: wasn't backing down on that. It's like, no, y'all, we 164 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 2: owe ourselves that, we owe ourselves that. 165 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 3: How hard is it. 166 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 1: For you to love some in the community when you 167 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: know they don't love you back. 168 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 2: That's a good Machannon. Okay, that's a good one, because 169 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 2: sometime I be in the bathroom having conversations with the 170 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 2: ones that don't love me back, but I still love 171 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 2: them because I just know that misinformed. We've been conditioned 172 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 2: in such a way in our community to eat each 173 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 2: other up and spit each other out. We've been conditioned, Well, 174 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 2: I don't like her, and I love my people. 175 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:05,839 Speaker 3: But why why do I? 176 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 4: No? 177 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 3: No, I'm saying a lot of times for me, mo 178 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 3: is that. 179 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: I don't take someone's word about to because you can 180 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: only judge a person through personal experience. Yes, you don't 181 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 1: know our audio guy, but to say, oh, well, I 182 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: don't like it, And then when you said, well I 183 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: don't like it either because Shanna didn't like it, You 184 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: have no personal experience with him, So why wouldn't you? 185 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 3: Why would you dislike it? 186 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: People want us to dislike somebody because they've had a 187 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 1: negative experience with that set person. 188 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 2: And we buy into it. We buy into it because 189 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 2: this one don't like her, and then you say, why 190 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 2: don't you like him? Let me This is one thing 191 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:50,079 Speaker 2: my husband said to me one time. He said, Mama, 192 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 2: there's not a person on the face of this earth 193 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 2: that I dislike. I may dislike what they do, but 194 00:09:55,880 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 2: I don't dislike the person. And it took me minute 195 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 2: to understand it, because I'm like, I don't like they ass. 196 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 2: I don't like what they did. I don't like they ass. 197 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 2: I don't like they, Mama, I don't like none of them. 198 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 2: But he said, no, there are things you've done that 199 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:14,840 Speaker 2: I dislike, but I don't dislike you. And once we 200 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 2: can get past that, then we even grow to be better. 201 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 2: So what you're seeing right now, Shannon is missus Sidney 202 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 2: Hicks that my husband has set me down and had 203 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 2: conversations with me and really taught me how to be 204 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 2: a lady. Because people in this business know, if you sideways, baby, 205 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 2: you beat that boy over the head with that tray 206 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,839 Speaker 2: in the cafeteria, right, I will cuss your ass out 207 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 2: in ways that they wish I beat him with a 208 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 2: tray And he had to say, Mama, they won't hear you. 209 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 2: They don't hear you once you go there. So he's 210 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 2: had to teach me how to really be a queen, 211 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 2: really know my worst, really understand my value. And I'm 212 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 2: grateful for that. And I used to say to my husband, 213 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 2: I wish I could put you in a bottle and 214 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 2: shake you up and let black women take a sent 215 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 2: to know what it's like to truly be loved by 216 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 2: a black man that is a king. When I tell you, Shannon, 217 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 2: it's a love that is unexplainable and unimaginable. That's why 218 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 2: I can't be broken. And I say that humbly. I 219 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 2: can't be broken because I got a king at home. 220 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 2: I got a king right there, And when all this 221 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 2: shit went crazy, that man took me by my hands 222 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:42,439 Speaker 2: and said, don't you know we could? And I believed him, 223 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 2: and right now to this day, I believe him. And 224 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 2: when you have that type of strength, it's hard to 225 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 2: bend over. You can't. 226 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 3: Right. 227 00:11:55,559 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: You said that when you were at your lowest, lifted 228 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: you to your highest. 229 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 2: You better know your homework. Baby, I'm proud of you. 230 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 2: We got toast on that way. You better know your 231 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 2: damn homework. I said that when I was at my lowest. 232 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 2: He loved me like I was at my best, and 233 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 2: I was mentally ill. Because you're in this business, everybody 234 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 2: thinks you are the hero. Consideration can be thrown off 235 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 2: the window. Patience can be thrown out the window because 236 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 2: when you get home, you believe that I'm the bread winner. 237 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 2: And what I say is what goes, and this is 238 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:41,679 Speaker 2: what it is. And this is my third marriage, throw 239 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 2: my first because this is the first time I've known 240 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 2: my place as a black man's wife. And there's a 241 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 2: place and we get so caught up in that word, 242 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 2: what you mean, your play, what you mean without him 243 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 2: saying it. His action showed me that he was the 244 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 2: leader of that household. Without him saying it, I knew 245 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 2: I was dealing with a king. 246 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 5: And he didn't have to confidently remind you of it. 247 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 5: He never, he's never. When we first got together, I said, 248 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 5: at the hit of that table, comfortably. There was never 249 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,959 Speaker 5: a conversation about it till one day I knew I. 250 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 2: Was in the wrong place. Wow, And I moved to 251 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,440 Speaker 2: the side of the table and he said at the head. 252 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 2: We never had a conversation about it. It just happened 253 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 2: because it was supposed to. So when people question my 254 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 2: husband and why is he there, you would hope you 255 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 2: would have one like that. I remember our beautiful sister 256 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 2: Tiffany had it. Did an interview with GQ magazine, And 257 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 2: this is my humble opinion, is where we keep throwing 258 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 2: each other under the bus. You're doing an interview with 259 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 2: GQ magazine and I'm assuming the journalist was a white person, 260 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 2: and the conversation turned to Monique and she said, well, 261 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 2: I don't do business like Monique do business, and I'm 262 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 2: glad I don't have that husband of hers. 263 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 3: But she doesn't know your husband. 264 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 2: And when I saw that, it's like Tiffany, if you 265 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 2: had a husband like mine, you may not have to DUIs. 266 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 2: If you had a husband like mine, you may not 267 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 2: be caught up in what looks like you could have 268 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 2: been grooming a child. And I say, all of that 269 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 2: was no judgment. But when you speak about having a 270 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 2: husband like mine, you open up the door. And I'm 271 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 2: saying to you, if you had one like mine, you 272 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 2: may not sit in these positions that you can't explain 273 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 2: the next day, or it's a hard way to go. 274 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 3: So once agont a husband, let alone like yours. 275 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 2: Well about dying it now you said it, I sipt 276 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 2: doing that, shad. That was a sip that required a sip. 277 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 3: You Moesha? How did how did that come about? 278 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 2: Mosha? 279 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 3: Yeah? You had an audition for Moesha? 280 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 2: Right, No sir, hold on, no, sir, you didn't. I did. 281 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:27,239 Speaker 2: I say this not to be but I never auditioned. 282 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 2: What I've never auditioned they've called I think I thought 283 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 2: I was auditioning for a Burger King commercial, but what 284 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 2: it really was was the agency I was with at 285 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 2: the time just trying to blow smoke, you know, making 286 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 2: me think I'm doing something, but to audition. When I 287 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 2: first came to Hollywood, I told this guy name I 288 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 2: believe his name is Mark Unray, and I told AJ Johnson, 289 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 2: and I told a sister named kim Kimberly Brooks. I said, 290 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 2: I'm not auditioning, and they was like, okay, like you're 291 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 2: fat ass, You not audition and we'll see if that's 292 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 2: what they did. They laugh, But I meant that, I'm like, 293 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 2: what you see is what you get. I am not 294 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 2: going to especially now, especially now. Whyever would I audition 295 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 2: when I've got the highest award that you can get 296 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 2: in this business called acting, And why would I do that? 297 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 2: Because once I do that, I devalue me. If you 298 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 2: can't look at my work and say that's what we want, 299 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 2: then no, thank you. Like they'll call me, they'll send 300 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 2: emails and they'll say, what's Monique availability? None of your business. 301 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 2: I don't know you. So you're just gonna send an 302 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 2: email and want to know what's my availability. I'm offer only. 303 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 2: I am offer only. So again, we gotta be careful 304 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 2: what we say yes too, what Sidney Poitier say, it's 305 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 2: not how many times you say yes? How many times 306 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 2: you say no? And the moment our Baby audition, they 307 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 2: got set up for no trailers, they got set up 308 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 2: for no food, they got set up for no drivers 309 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 2: because now in their mind they think you're desperate. Right, 310 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 2: So when Oprah does the one on one with Taraji 311 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 2: and she begins to run down her credits, the great 312 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 2: Taraji p Henson, then whyever would you allow the audition 313 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 2: to happen? Whyever would you allow that? Why wouldn't you 314 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 2: go to that studio and say she doesn't have to 315 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 2: our hand picked them. So either our sister is not 316 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 2: as powerful as we believe. She is or either there's 317 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 2: not the concern that she tries to make it look 318 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 2: like it is. 319 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: But you turn a couple of appearance on Moesha into 320 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: the Parkers. 321 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 2: This is how the Parkers happened. Normally, you shoot a pilot, correct, right, yes, 322 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,119 Speaker 2: and the pilot they decide whether or not they're going 323 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 2: to do the show from the pilot, right, yes, okay. 324 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 2: Countess Vaughan and I when I go to a meeting 325 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 2: with a guy named Larry Little at Big Ticket Television, 326 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 2: and at the time my agent was a woman named 327 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 2: Susie Unger. They're trying to sell a talk show. Yes, 328 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,239 Speaker 2: we have a meeting. He says, listen, I don't need 329 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 2: her to do a talk show, but if she can act, 330 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 2: she has her own show. My agent said, of course 331 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 2: she can act. Well, she didn't know if I could 332 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 2: act or not, but I said, damn it, of course 333 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 2: I can. 334 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 3: Add. 335 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 2: They will count as Van into that meeting that was 336 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 2: at one o'clock. By that evening, they were negotiating the 337 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 2: deal for the Parkers. The way they introduced the character, 338 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 2: because they always talked about Kim's mother on Mosha. They 339 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 2: introduced Nikki Parker in an episode of Moesha, which was 340 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 2: the pilot spin off to the Parkers. That was never 341 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 2: an audition. There was never any event. 342 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 3: So now all of a sudden you got your own sick. 343 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 2: Com Shut up, Come on, now you go home. 344 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 3: And you like from b more violand from what I 345 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 3: went through to this? 346 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 2: Yes? 347 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: Are you looking around like damn it? I made I 348 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: knew this. I knew this thing was gonna happen. 349 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes. And you know how you know something 350 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 2: as a child, like did you know you were gonna 351 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 2: play for I knew it, Shannon. I knew it like 352 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 2: I knew as a child. And I say this humbly. 353 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:23,239 Speaker 2: I knew the world would know my name like I 354 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 2: knew that. So once you in it, you'd be just 355 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 2: like I still can be in a supermarket and somebody say, Monique, 356 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 2: is that you? And I still can tear up because 357 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm here. I remember when I got my 358 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 2: first parking lot at the Parkers. I didn't know I 359 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:51,199 Speaker 2: had a parking space, and they would send out emails 360 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,400 Speaker 2: to say, if you're here for the Parkers, park outside 361 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 2: the gate. That's how naive I was when you asked me, 362 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 2: was I naive? So I would park outside at the gate. 363 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 2: I even though I'm one of the stars of a show, baby, 364 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 2: they said, if you're with the Parker, because there's no 365 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 2: one on one, there's no Hollywood one on one, there's 366 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 2: no introduction. They just say go and you're supposed to 367 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 2: get it. So I would walk across the parking lot 368 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 2: all the way over to the set, to the stage 369 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 2: till a brother named William Tripp was in a golf 370 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 2: cart one day. He said, mo, what you're doing? I said, 371 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,879 Speaker 2: going to the set. He said, why are you walking 372 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 2: across the parking lot. I said, oh, because they said, 373 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 2: if you're with the Parkers, you gotta park outside the gate. 374 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 2: That brothers laughed, but it was a brotherly land. He said, 375 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 2: come in, baby, let me show you something. And I 376 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 2: got on that golf cart and he drove me to 377 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 2: my parking space that had my name on it. That 378 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 2: was a moment for me, like I'm pulling up to 379 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 2: a studio and that's my name. That's the little fat 380 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 2: black girl from Baltimore, Maryland who was in the slow 381 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 2: slow class. That's the little fat black girl from Baltimore, Maryland. 382 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 2: We have a lot of friends, a lot of people 383 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 2: didn't want to deal with me, but that's my name 384 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 2: on that parking space. Now do you see why I 385 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 2: fight like I fight because it's all possible. But what 386 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:14,239 Speaker 2: happens is we then lose ourself in the possibility of 387 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 2: what we're getting, and now we're too afraid to lose it. 388 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 2: So all the principles, all the morals, all your values, 389 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:22,919 Speaker 2: they don't go away. You just push them to the 390 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,439 Speaker 2: side because you know what it's like not to have 391 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 2: gas money. So I'll just you know, I just go 392 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 2: ahead and do that a little bit. My soul won't 393 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 2: let me do that. 394 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: Why did you want to become famous? You asked me earlier, 395 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: Did I know that I was going to play in 396 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:43,399 Speaker 1: the NFL? And I told you yes, because I wanted 397 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: to play in the NFL because it was gonna get 398 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: my grandmother and my family into a situation they probably 399 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 1: would have never enjoyed without it. 400 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 3: Come on, that was my driving force. That was all 401 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 3: I thought about. 402 00:21:54,320 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: More given your family situation and what transpired, Why didn't 403 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 1: want to be famous so bad? 404 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 2: I'm a little fat black girl, baby, and asks another 405 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 2: fat black girl, We fight for that attention because you 406 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 2: wasn't the one picked on the playground to play kickball. 407 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 2: You wasn't the one pick for the spelling bee. You 408 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 2: wasn't the one picked for this. You wasn't the one 409 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 2: pick for that. So I was like one day, one day, 410 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 2: one day, one day. I'm sure you growing up you 411 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 2: had your challenges. You're a dark skinned man. There was 412 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 2: a time you studied. I wasn't always popping. You brought 413 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 2: it up. Let's talk about it. Talk about it. Your 414 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 2: good head, white curly, your skin was black. Yeah, man, 415 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 2: you brought it up. I wasn't always that is so 416 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:50,120 Speaker 2: yaw to be that now, to be that? Yeah, Now 417 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 2: you gotta be careful because you remember the time when 418 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 2: she told, you know, I don't wanna go out on 419 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 2: the date with old black shann Let me talk to 420 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 2: her right now, let me talk to your ass. It 421 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 2: wouldn't go out with black Shannon. Now, you wish you 422 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 2: would have won out with black Shanning that studied, y okay, 423 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 2: you wish you would have won out with black stuttering 424 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 2: Shannon Sharp's ass. Now look at him, he got the 425 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,919 Speaker 2: shape shape show I bet he ass of tough. I've 426 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 2: been there, I've been there, I've been there. So we 427 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 2: understand it. You know, you understand that drive. You understand 428 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,880 Speaker 2: that thing in you that says, I won't let nobody 429 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 2: stop me. Now, my drive wasn't that I wanted to 430 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 2: get my family out of poverty, because I've always grown 431 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 2: up in a middle class environment. So it wasn't that 432 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 2: we were dirt poor. You know, we ain't have no 433 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 2: whole lot. But I didn't look at it as we 434 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 2: lived in Pott right right, for me, I just wanted 435 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 2: to I wanted the world to know me. And then 436 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 2: once I had a son, right, I was very young 437 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 2: when I had my first son, I didn't want him 438 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,879 Speaker 2: to have to go to a college because that was 439 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 2: all that my parents could afford. I wanted him to 440 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 2: be able to do whatever he wanted to do. Then 441 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 2: there was a sacrifice in that, right because when you're 442 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 2: trying to go get it, you're missing this right here. 443 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 3: Oh you miss a lot, the nurture in yeah. 444 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 2: You miss all that. So you know, all of that 445 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 2: had to be dealt with. So now with this group, 446 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 2: with my second set of children, I'm a different mother 447 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 2: than I was then. So my whole thing is even 448 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,199 Speaker 2: right now, we want to make sure that when we 449 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 2: leave here our babies are good, right, and that baby's 450 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,640 Speaker 2: are good. And then Tyler Perry not told that lie, 451 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 2: we would be on our way to that. And I 452 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 2: know people saying, why she keep going back to that. 453 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep going back to that shit sharing and 454 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 2: shop till he takes accountability for. 455 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,360 Speaker 3: You said your first son. 456 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 1: Yes, that you're trying to get it, but it robbed 457 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 1: you of a lot of things of a mother son relationship, 458 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: and so you made sure not to make the mistake 459 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 1: this time around. What's your relationship like? Is he resentful 460 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:09,360 Speaker 1: of that? 461 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 2: We're still very much separated, okay? And and and it's 462 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 2: a it's a it's a It's one of those things 463 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 2: where you have to pray to the universe and say, 464 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 2: let time do the healing, and that's it. That's it. 465 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 2: Let time do that healing. It may heal it in time, 466 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,680 Speaker 2: and it may not. And that's something that we as 467 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:36,160 Speaker 2: parents have to say, Listen, I've done what I've could do. 468 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:40,160 Speaker 2: I've taken accountability for it. Now it's up to you, right. 469 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 2: That's like when somebody's saying, Shannon, I want to apologize 470 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 2: to you. Now it's up to you. 471 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 3: Whether or not to accept whether or not talk. 472 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 2: But once I give it to you, I've done my 473 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 2: part and don't apologize like no pump, I'm just sorry 474 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 2: for everything that gets your ass out of it. No 475 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 2: break down. Let's go bit by bit so that way 476 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,640 Speaker 2: we know you understand the offense that you've done. Now 477 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 2: I'm not sicking because I've had to do that. When 478 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:10,679 Speaker 2: I tell you, I was so out of line and 479 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,640 Speaker 2: out of order when I first got with my husband, 480 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 2: so out of order and out of line. And this 481 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,239 Speaker 2: has been my best friend since tenth grade, since we 482 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 2: were fourteen years old. He came to the other other weddings. 483 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 2: It was like my brother. This man he was like 484 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 2: my brother. You know he wasn't That's why it's so 485 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 2: beautiful because we really we were like we we had 486 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 2: a place together. He would see my boyfriend, I see 487 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 2: his girlfriend. You know that he this was my brother. 488 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 2: This was literally my brother. And then if it wasn't 489 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 2: my boyfriend, it might be another little fellow. But you know, 490 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,199 Speaker 2: he was like my brother. We were brother and sister. 491 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 2: So the way it happened, yes, it was so pure. 492 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 3: Tell, and that's what I want to know. Now. 493 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 1: You he came to you, say came to wedding. You 494 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,439 Speaker 1: saw him have girlfriends. I don't know if he was 495 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 1: married or not. 496 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 5: Before you that you how how did I gotta know this? 497 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 3: Hall need to do a fay girl. 498 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 2: We got time, We got time, We good on time. 499 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:22,400 Speaker 2: I want you to say that again. And I don't 500 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 2: want Hallmark, but okay, okay, okay, because this story, this 501 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 2: story is spicy, and I don't know if Hallmark can 502 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:33,640 Speaker 2: handle the spice of the story. So we've always been 503 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 2: like brother and sister, right. He was the one I 504 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,959 Speaker 2: would call after a show when I was standing at a 505 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 2: motel and I'd be like, Yo, they got me in 506 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,440 Speaker 2: this motel and nigga's outside and everything. I'm scared. He'd 507 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 2: be like, but one day, one day, you're gonna be 508 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 2: on the inside. This is the same guy that we 509 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 2: was going to the like our little farmer's market in Baltimore, 510 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 2: and I had a comedy club called Monique's in Baltimore, 511 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 2: and the girl had on a Monick's T shirt. And 512 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 2: He's says, one day they know you only in Baltimore, 513 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 2: but one day they gonna know you all around the world. 514 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:07,879 Speaker 2: That's the same guy that when we step off of 515 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 2: a plane in London together, and the guy says, my 516 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 2: wife knows I fancy you. And we went back to 517 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 2: that moment coming out of that store in Baltimore. But 518 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,679 Speaker 2: one day they'll know you all over the world. So 519 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 2: he's always been he always made life right for me. 520 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 2: But it was my brother, right. And I remember one 521 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 2: night when I thought Joel LeVert was my boyfriend. And 522 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 2: let me be clear, I thought he was my boyfriend. 523 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 2: I was never his girlfriend, right, but in my mind, 524 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 2: you know, we'll take it somewhere, right. So I'm in 525 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 2: my feelings because I like this little teddy bear, right, 526 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 2: But the teddy bear didn't like okay, oh right, not 527 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,719 Speaker 2: the way I wanted it to be, right. So I 528 00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 2: call up my best friend and I'm saying I'm mad. 529 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 2: He said, all right, he said, listen, it's all good. 530 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 2: When you come home, you know, let's just hang out. Right. 531 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 2: When I went home, I was doing the BT Awards, right, 532 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 2: and I had a big party at my house and 533 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,479 Speaker 2: the next day I was supposed to go to Essence 534 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 2: for the film for the Essence Festival. So that night 535 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 2: at the house, my house the outside is packed. Ain't 536 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 2: nobody though a Hollywood party shanting shop like Monique through 537 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 2: a Hollywood. I had every race, every nationality, every everything 538 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 2: you thought could be at a party, and everybody was 539 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 2: just a great time. Right. So he's at the party 540 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 2: and he's very reserved, you know, very reserve cat. So 541 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,680 Speaker 2: I grabbed his hand and said, come on, let's go dancing. 542 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 2: And we got out on the dance we and have 543 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 2: a great time. After that, I'm like, all right, I 544 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 2: gotta start packing to get ready to go to the 545 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 2: Essence Festival. So we go upstairs and I take my shower. 546 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 2: It was nothing for him to see me naked because 547 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 2: we were roommates, you know. So so he says, when 548 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 2: you come back from Essence, I want to talk with you. 549 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 2: So I said okay. So he went to kiss me 550 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 2: on my cheek, but the kiss was half lipped. It 551 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 2: was like here, yoh, okay, it was right there right now. 552 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 2: I tried to turn the home mouth, but it came 553 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 2: right there because I found something different. I fold them 554 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 2: and I was like and then after it happened, we 555 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 2: both almost had a feeling of like we did something wrong, 556 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 2: like this, like that's my So we didn't address it. 557 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 2: I came back from Essence festival. 558 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 3: What do you want to talk about? 559 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 2: I went to his place. Okay, he fixed in him, Okay, 560 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 2: he fixed in him and read this amazing poem that 561 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 2: he wrote that was almost nineteen years ago. Oh we've 562 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 2: never been a part since then. Wow, we've never been 563 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:07,480 Speaker 2: apart since then. And I am more in love with 564 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 2: that man today than I was when we first got married, 565 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 2: because I didn't really know what I was getting. I 566 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 2: knew I was getting somebody I could trust because I 567 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:21,040 Speaker 2: just needed somebody that I could just try, like my 568 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 2: brother stole from him my face, Like I'm just I 569 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 2: just needed somebody that I could just trust. And I 570 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 2: didn't want to keep on having randoms, right, because that 571 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 2: gets old after a while, you know what I'm saying. 572 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,280 Speaker 2: He's trying to fill the void, and men go through 573 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 2: that as well as women. You just get tired of. 574 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 2: So I knew I could trust him, but I didn't 575 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 2: know he was the king that he was shanning. I 576 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 2: didn't know that. I didn't know that I would be 577 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 2: raised And there are women that have a problem with 578 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 2: me saying that, and I will not back down from it. 579 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,520 Speaker 2: I did not know that that man would take me 580 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 2: from a fifteen year old mentality. Even though I'm a star, 581 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 2: I'm famous, I got a few dollars in my back account, 582 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 2: but still had that little girl mentality. You can't correct me, 583 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 2: you can't say nothing to me, you can't check me, 584 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 2: you can't do none of that. Still had that way. 585 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 2: That man was able to shut all of that down 586 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 2: and grow me up. So I got a great one. 587 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:19,560 Speaker 2: I won't even say a good one. 588 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 3: I got a great You got a great one. Yeah. 589 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 1: You got a lover, a best friend, yes, a manager, 590 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: a husband yes, confide. 591 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, a protector. Ye. You're saying it, and 592 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 2: it seems like people have a hard time getting it. 593 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 2: But that's exactly who Sidney Hick says. He's all of 594 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:40,120 Speaker 2: those things. 595 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: When the Queen's of comedy, when was that a because 596 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 1: I was some more adal givings, Miss Lloyd, tell me 597 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 1: about the Queen's of comedy. We hear about we hear 598 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 1: about the Kings of comedy all the time, and it 599 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:54,840 Speaker 1: was great. 600 00:32:55,080 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was not an original queen of comedy. And 601 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 2: when I came on right, I was so honored to 602 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 2: be in the presence of three of the greatest female 603 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 2: comedians to ever do it. And when I tell you, 604 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 2: hands down, them sisters are incredible because they've paved ways 605 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 2: for people. And when we got together, Shannon, it was 606 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 2: non stop history making because we were selling out in 607 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 2: ways that were unheard of. Right. And I can remember 608 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 2: our first show because I was not initially the headliner 609 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,040 Speaker 2: of the Queens of Comedy. Some more was and I 610 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,600 Speaker 2: remember our first show and this is why I appreciate her, 611 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 2: because she knows a great show. Like you have some 612 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 2: comedians that feel like you can't follow me. I tore 613 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 2: the stage down and it's over, and you can't. You can't, 614 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 2: you can't. And I felt that way one time in 615 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 2: my life, and that was with Dale Hughgley. Right, but 616 00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 2: you have you. She was the headliner of the show 617 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 2: and we were in Atlanta, and it was one of 618 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,240 Speaker 2: those shows where the basket for me was this big, 619 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 2: Like I don't care what I said, it was just. 620 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:12,799 Speaker 3: Right. 621 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,920 Speaker 2: Someone is one of the funniest. It's just our energies 622 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,840 Speaker 2: are different. I'm liable to run across the stage. Just 623 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,920 Speaker 2: the energy is different. And that night, the energy was 624 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 2: just different. It was not that she was less funny, 625 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,880 Speaker 2: just the energy was different. And this is why I 626 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 2: loved that sister. She walked off the stage that night 627 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,560 Speaker 2: after she closed the show. She walked by me and 628 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 2: she said, you hadline from now on, and she kept walking. 629 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,800 Speaker 2: We never discussed it. We never discussed it. It takes 630 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:48,680 Speaker 2: for me. It takes a person saying we want a 631 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:53,479 Speaker 2: great show. We just want a great show. And that's 632 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,799 Speaker 2: what that was. Miss Laura taught me how to warm 633 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,600 Speaker 2: up food on a damn iron with a towel. She said, 634 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 2: bitch in the prison, we don't have no microwave, and 635 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,879 Speaker 2: we're gonna eat these buffalo wings. Flip that iron over 636 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,040 Speaker 2: and wrap that rentals wrap up and cover it with 637 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 2: that taib Baby them buffalo wings was so damn good. 638 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,640 Speaker 2: We just But did we get treated fairly? Held to 639 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:18,520 Speaker 2: the No, No, we did not. There were times on 640 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 2: that Queens of Comedy tour that I had to even 641 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:26,640 Speaker 2: on that tour, I had to say some things because 642 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:30,280 Speaker 2: it wasn't fair and the way we were being treated 643 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:36,319 Speaker 2: it was not fair. There were times when money wasn't right. 644 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:42,360 Speaker 2: And I remember the first date for the Queens of 645 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 2: Comedy and I got a call from my agent and 646 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,400 Speaker 2: she says to me, no more C and D promoters. 647 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:55,560 Speaker 2: You're in the big leagues now, Walter Latham want you 648 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,400 Speaker 2: to be a part of the Queens of Comedy. Okay, No, 649 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:00,239 Speaker 2: I'm no. 650 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,279 Speaker 3: Your problem because he's the exactly producer of the Kings 651 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:04,480 Speaker 3: of Comedy. Correct, this is. 652 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:05,440 Speaker 2: Gonna be a blast. 653 00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:05,879 Speaker 1: Yeah. 654 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 2: The first check I got, let me sip for. 655 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,239 Speaker 3: I tell you hell, I might man to take me 656 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:13,799 Speaker 3: a step too. 657 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,640 Speaker 2: My banker called me up and said, Monique, this check 658 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,359 Speaker 2: is no good. I said, excuse me, the money jump 659 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,840 Speaker 2: fight it sip again, damn it, I might need a 660 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:32,439 Speaker 2: little some strong hold on damn it saying the money 661 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:36,360 Speaker 2: is no good. I said, what you say? She said, Monique, 662 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 2: this check is no good. So I immediately got on 663 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,279 Speaker 2: the phone with my agent and I said, let me 664 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,719 Speaker 2: tell you something about seeing d promoters. My money always good. 665 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 2: Now I need you to get Walter Lathan on the phone. 666 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,920 Speaker 2: Walter Lathan, from here on out, I will only accept 667 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,440 Speaker 2: cash from you moving forward. You have two hours to 668 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,840 Speaker 2: get the money into my account. If not, take me 669 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:58,200 Speaker 2: off of the Queen's of Comedy tour. 670 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:03,600 Speaker 3: You make it right. 671 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:05,960 Speaker 2: He made it right. You saw me on a tour, 672 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:10,760 Speaker 2: didn't you. And then one night this is why people 673 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,799 Speaker 2: could say that's a problem. If I tell you I'm 674 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:19,280 Speaker 2: going to pay you fifty thousand dollars and twenty five cents, 675 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:24,800 Speaker 2: what are you expecting. So one night they tried to 676 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:29,480 Speaker 2: give me what was not all of it. I need 677 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,480 Speaker 2: all of it. I don't care if it's a little bit, 678 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,880 Speaker 2: it's mine. Right until you get it, my throat hurts. 679 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,399 Speaker 2: So they had to go, I get sick on. I'm 680 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:40,719 Speaker 2: saying that. 681 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 3: The weather. 682 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,040 Speaker 2: Well, I performed that night because they had to go 683 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,440 Speaker 2: get my money. Right, then they started selling shows off. 684 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,680 Speaker 2: So what that means is now you got different promoters 685 00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:01,359 Speaker 2: coming in. We're women, we are women, okay. Some more 686 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,879 Speaker 2: had an assistant and I had an assistant, And both 687 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,680 Speaker 2: of our assistants were not the kind of men that 688 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,279 Speaker 2: was gonna fight. Okay, they might scratch you, but they 689 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,920 Speaker 2: weren't gonna ball their fists up and do no guffing. Okay, 690 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,440 Speaker 2: So we're in a position now where we're trying to 691 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,000 Speaker 2: defend ourselves because now you walking up, you walking up. 692 00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,560 Speaker 2: I'm a promoter. I'm a promoter. I'm a promoter take 693 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,200 Speaker 2: pictures with my family. And we had no idea this 694 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:28,359 Speaker 2: was happening. One night. We're on the Kings and Queens, right, 695 00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,719 Speaker 2: and oh how Bernie mac is missed? Oh how he's 696 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:37,000 Speaker 2: missed because he was a real one. Right, All the 697 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 2: Kings of comedy had limos separate. Steve had one, Bernie 698 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:45,040 Speaker 2: had one, said you had one, dl had one, all 699 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,160 Speaker 2: of them. Then another limousine pull up and they say, 700 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,279 Speaker 2: this is for the Queens of comedy. I said, I 701 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:55,080 Speaker 2: will not. I will not. You better pull up four 702 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,000 Speaker 2: separate limousines. You're gonna treat this the same way you 703 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:02,400 Speaker 2: treated them. We helped seller forty four thousand people. That 704 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:06,160 Speaker 2: wasn't just the kings. It was the kings and the queens, 705 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,759 Speaker 2: So you will treat us accordingly. All the kings got 706 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:10,960 Speaker 2: Rolex watches when. 707 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,759 Speaker 3: It was over, what y'all get? 708 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:20,359 Speaker 2: I'm still waiting for mine. That's the treatment. So when 709 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:26,400 Speaker 2: people say why won't y'all do the queens again? It 710 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,160 Speaker 2: was a moment in time, and it was a beautiful 711 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,879 Speaker 2: moment in time, and something should be left where they were. 712 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:38,400 Speaker 1: Wow, this is what I want to get to I 713 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,200 Speaker 1: want you to get to it. A lot of this 714 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:46,399 Speaker 1: happened with the movie Precious. That's the movie that made 715 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:52,440 Speaker 1: Monique a star amongst she shined the brightest because you 716 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,839 Speaker 1: played that role. Nobody else could have did that role, 717 00:39:55,040 --> 00:40:00,399 Speaker 1: Justice mode, nobody You played it. And our room walking 718 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:02,319 Speaker 1: out of the movie and I called my sister. I said, 719 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,399 Speaker 1: she's gonna win the Academy Award for that role. I said, 720 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,040 Speaker 1: it's almost like she was. 721 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,319 Speaker 3: Born to play that role. 722 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,240 Speaker 1: Now, now tell the correct me from wrong. Okay, Okay, 723 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,920 Speaker 1: you shoot a movie. Yes, the movie wrap, you might 724 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,040 Speaker 1: have to come back and do some voice over, some 725 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,040 Speaker 1: hear some touch up work here or there. 726 00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:25,840 Speaker 3: Yes, that's already stripped into the contract. 727 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:31,239 Speaker 1: Now the promotion aspect of the contract, what were you 728 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,160 Speaker 1: contracted to do? Because that seems to be where the 729 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,320 Speaker 1: conflict seems to come in, because you was like, okay, 730 00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:42,960 Speaker 1: so tell the people that's gonna watch this and listen 731 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:48,319 Speaker 1: to this. What was Monique contractually obligated to do as 732 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,080 Speaker 1: far as the promotional aspect of Precious. 733 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:57,919 Speaker 2: I was contractually obligated to promote the movie Precious under 734 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:03,560 Speaker 2: Lee Daniel's productions. I promoted Precious under Lead Daniel's productions. 735 00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:07,600 Speaker 2: I did Oprah, I did magazines, I did TV shows, 736 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:12,680 Speaker 2: I did all of the promotions. I was contractually obligated 737 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:13,200 Speaker 2: to do. 738 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:14,920 Speaker 3: That was it. That was it. 739 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,759 Speaker 2: I'm done with it. Okay. Now Precious is going to 740 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:22,480 Speaker 2: can right at the time, I have the Monique Show, 741 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,080 Speaker 2: I am on the spread the Love Tour, I have 742 00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:31,840 Speaker 2: toddler babies, and I'm also a wife. Okay, Monique. The 743 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,520 Speaker 2: Monique Show is like down for maybe a couple of 744 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,279 Speaker 2: days a week or so. I got some days off 745 00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,800 Speaker 2: on the tour. I'm gonna relax with my family because 746 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:48,320 Speaker 2: once they sold the movie, you didn't sell me. WOOPI Goldberg, 747 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,640 Speaker 2: See what Bigoldberg said. I could have schooled you and 748 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:56,080 Speaker 2: told you what was expected when I didn't promote and 749 00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,799 Speaker 2: go overseas and you know how you just looked up 750 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:02,799 Speaker 2: and the way yeah, whoopy Goldberg what you were saying 751 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:04,680 Speaker 2: to me. I could have schooled you and told you 752 00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:06,360 Speaker 2: you're going to in that house and let them have 753 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,440 Speaker 2: their way with you, right, and I'll be here when 754 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:12,200 Speaker 2: you come back. So after I'm done with my promotions, 755 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:18,279 Speaker 2: lions Gate reaches out to my husband. Initially they think 756 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:23,759 Speaker 2: they're talking to my attorney, right, and they say, we 757 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,320 Speaker 2: want Monique to come to can to she promoted so 758 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,680 Speaker 2: well in the United States. We want her to go 759 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:34,120 Speaker 2: international and promote the movie and do can Okay. I 760 00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,840 Speaker 2: told my husband, please let them know respectfully decline. I 761 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,880 Speaker 2: appreciate it, but I respectfully decline. I'm gonna spend some 762 00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:46,360 Speaker 2: time at home. Lionsgate calls back, We really would like 763 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:52,440 Speaker 2: for Monique to come to Can promote this movie. Please 764 00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,279 Speaker 2: let them know, respectfully decline, I'm gonna spend time with 765 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,080 Speaker 2: my family. Lionsgate calls back and says, what is it 766 00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,680 Speaker 2: gonna take for us to get Monique to come to Can. 767 00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,839 Speaker 2: We'll give her another week in France. We'll upgrade her room. 768 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,840 Speaker 2: My husband said, is there a dollar amount attached to 769 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,640 Speaker 2: what you're asking for? Oh, we will never pay anyone 770 00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:18,520 Speaker 2: to promote a film. Never, he said, We understand, and 771 00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,560 Speaker 2: we're never gonna work for free. You're asking her to 772 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:25,120 Speaker 2: do something that she's not obligated to do. Is this 773 00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:28,440 Speaker 2: the attorney? He said, Actually, I'm her manager and her husband. 774 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,400 Speaker 2: Now we can put it on the husband's being difficult, right, Okay, 775 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,640 Speaker 2: So I don't owe anybody anything. That's why I was 776 00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:39,960 Speaker 2: never sued. Now we go to the Hoodie Awards. Tyler 777 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:44,200 Speaker 2: Perry is there, okay. Tyler Perry calls me in his room. 778 00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,240 Speaker 2: Now when I go into Tyler Perry's room, his staff 779 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,160 Speaker 2: is in there. Now you're ready to holler laughing, Yes, okay, 780 00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,279 Speaker 2: I take my security in there with me because I 781 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,399 Speaker 2: always want to have somebody with me. Right, Tyler Perry 782 00:43:55,440 --> 00:44:00,480 Speaker 2: does this, and the people scattered, They all left out 783 00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:02,640 Speaker 2: the room. I said, look at this shit right here. 784 00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:06,160 Speaker 2: You saw me, and they all scattered. 785 00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:07,680 Speaker 3: That wasn't a light. That's for the people. 786 00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:13,200 Speaker 2: You don't light lights on, lights off because they got 787 00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:14,040 Speaker 2: their asses about it. 788 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:15,200 Speaker 3: Okay, okay. 789 00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,200 Speaker 2: So at the time my security look at me. I said, 790 00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:18,440 Speaker 2: you don't work for Tyler Perry. 791 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:20,840 Speaker 3: You could touche. 792 00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:25,399 Speaker 2: So Tyler Perry says to me, listen, Monique, we really 793 00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,399 Speaker 2: need you to, you know, promote this film because if 794 00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,600 Speaker 2: you get nominated for the Oscar, your next movie is 795 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:35,040 Speaker 2: gonna be three to five million dollars. If you win it, 796 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,680 Speaker 2: your next movie is six to eight million dollars. I said, 797 00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,880 Speaker 2: Tyler Perry, who you talking to? I'm a black woman. 798 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:44,640 Speaker 2: Weren't they gonna pay that kind of money. No, I'm 799 00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,239 Speaker 2: telling you that's what it is. And if you just 800 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:51,239 Speaker 2: go and promote it, I said, listen, brother, you can 801 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:52,880 Speaker 2: pay me to promote it because at the time, now 802 00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,239 Speaker 2: him and Oprah producers on the film. I said, you 803 00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:56,719 Speaker 2: can pay me to do it. I don't care where 804 00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,920 Speaker 2: the check coming from. But y'all just he said, I'm 805 00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:01,839 Speaker 2: not in the habit of giving out money for free. 806 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:03,479 Speaker 2: I said, and I'm not in the habit of working 807 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,800 Speaker 2: for free. But you gave TD Jakes a check for 808 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:08,000 Speaker 2: a million dollars. But that's another story, and I'm back. 809 00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,080 Speaker 2: So when he then says that, it's like, listen, we 810 00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:14,200 Speaker 2: both mutually agree. You don't give out free money. I 811 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:19,680 Speaker 2: don't work for we hugged Shannon. When we were done talking, 812 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,480 Speaker 2: we hugged. Do you hear me? 813 00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:21,919 Speaker 3: Yes? 814 00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:26,640 Speaker 2: We hugged like brother and sister. Like it's cool. He understand. Okay. 815 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:34,759 Speaker 2: Oprah Winfrey calls my husband. I want you to take 816 00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:37,719 Speaker 2: your time because I'm getting going. Yeah, because the people 817 00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,040 Speaker 2: at home, they sitting there like morning, what happened? I'm great. 818 00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:44,640 Speaker 2: Take She calls my husband. My husband explains to her 819 00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,680 Speaker 2: what's going on. She says, there have been times I've 820 00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:50,360 Speaker 2: had to draw the line in the sand. So my 821 00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:52,720 Speaker 2: husband said, well, what is different between you and Monique? 822 00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:55,160 Speaker 2: You've got to draw the line, and you're saying when 823 00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,359 Speaker 2: you know they're asking you for too much. She says, 824 00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:02,160 Speaker 2: you're absolutely right, and I understand your position. You're right 825 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:05,719 Speaker 2: in the position you're taking. So when you're looking at 826 00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,920 Speaker 2: me saying, well, what happened, I'm telling you what happened. 827 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:14,320 Speaker 1: But Okay, she's saying that privately. But did she voice 828 00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:15,480 Speaker 1: that publicly? 829 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:16,560 Speaker 2: Did you hear her say it? 830 00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:17,920 Speaker 3: I didn't. 831 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,839 Speaker 2: Did you hear saying JT. Did you hear her say 832 00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:26,680 Speaker 2: it fact? Did you hear saying zach Regina? Did you 833 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:30,800 Speaker 2: hear her Tommy? No? One seemed to hear that publicly. 834 00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:34,200 Speaker 2: She said that privately. Now when she said that, see 835 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,640 Speaker 2: everything we're saying to you, it can be proven. She 836 00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:42,720 Speaker 2: had him on speakerphone and that when she was talking 837 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,400 Speaker 2: to him. In that room was a man named Reggie 838 00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:49,120 Speaker 2: Wells who just passed, who used to be Oprah Winfrey's 839 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,600 Speaker 2: makeup artist, who he had a conversation with me and 840 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,840 Speaker 2: my husband. Now for you babies, that's good with the 841 00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,840 Speaker 2: little Internet. We had a show on called Monicae Sidney 842 00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,279 Speaker 2: find a Way to Be Unoffended, Finding a Way to 843 00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:03,080 Speaker 2: be Unoffended. Reggie Wells is on that show speaking about 844 00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:07,000 Speaker 2: Oprah Winfrey. Reggie Wells said, Monique, I was there that day, 845 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:09,680 Speaker 2: he said, and when y'all got off the phone, he looked. 846 00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:11,520 Speaker 2: I looked at her and said, why don't you just 847 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,640 Speaker 2: pay this woman the money she deserves it? And she 848 00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:16,640 Speaker 2: looked at him and said, I won't be paying on nothing, 849 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:19,120 Speaker 2: And he said that's not right. And you know it's 850 00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:22,719 Speaker 2: not right now. That man shared that on that show. 851 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:25,279 Speaker 2: So I'm not saying nothing that hasn't been shared. So 852 00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:29,160 Speaker 2: you have people that will say things in private but 853 00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,600 Speaker 2: won't do it publicly. I'm the person that I will 854 00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:34,600 Speaker 2: say it in private, and I'm going to say it 855 00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,319 Speaker 2: publicly because that's the only way we make it right. 856 00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,080 Speaker 3: But you don't need somebody to talk good till your face. 857 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,120 Speaker 3: You need somebody to talk good behind your back. 858 00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:44,920 Speaker 1: So if you telling me, if you're telling me what 859 00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,319 Speaker 1: a great person I am in my face, but you're 860 00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,680 Speaker 1: telling me I'm dog poop behind my back, what good 861 00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:50,920 Speaker 1: is that? 862 00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:51,239 Speaker 4: Mom? 863 00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:55,960 Speaker 2: What does that make those kind of people? Shannon's what 864 00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:59,839 Speaker 2: does it make those kind of cowardly? That is cowardly? See, 865 00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:04,000 Speaker 2: here's what's this When we have our juggernauts, Oprah Winfrey 866 00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:08,600 Speaker 2: Tyler Perry, Steve Harvey, Kevin Hart. These are our juggernauts 867 00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,759 Speaker 2: of our community. These are the people that our babies say, 868 00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:13,840 Speaker 2: when I grow up, I want to be that. I 869 00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,239 Speaker 2: want to be like that. So we have to call 870 00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:20,040 Speaker 2: those people to the met and say, listen, what are 871 00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:24,400 Speaker 2: you teaching our babies. You're feeding poison because you're showing 872 00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,560 Speaker 2: them you're private jet. I'm gonna show you my mansion. 873 00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,120 Speaker 2: I'm gonna show you my fancy cars. But my character 874 00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,040 Speaker 2: is shot and I'm bankrupt. I got a lot of 875 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:34,360 Speaker 2: money in my bank. It's more zeros than some of 876 00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:39,360 Speaker 2: them can than we can imagine. But their character, they're bankrupt. 877 00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:44,799 Speaker 2: Those are bankrupt people. So everybody that cats sat right 878 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:48,879 Speaker 2: here and told you about, I can't wait to see 879 00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:50,520 Speaker 2: your next interviews with those people. 880 00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:52,719 Speaker 3: They ain't coming on now. 881 00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:56,279 Speaker 2: Moot invite them I have, They're not gonna do it. 882 00:48:56,719 --> 00:49:00,319 Speaker 3: Well, look I've already done Steve. I have a relationship Steve. 883 00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,000 Speaker 2: He doing them again, do him again? And I'm gonna 884 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:04,239 Speaker 2: say this. 885 00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:08,080 Speaker 5: I'm trying to get Oprah and tylerdo baby. We got him, 886 00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:09,160 Speaker 5: y'all come on stop playing? 887 00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:10,560 Speaker 3: Hey, coming on more? Thanks? 888 00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:16,239 Speaker 2: Do you you know how And I don't want to 889 00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:17,920 Speaker 2: put you on a spot, but I'm gonna say it 890 00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,680 Speaker 2: because I appreciate you as a black man and what 891 00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:26,319 Speaker 2: you're doing. If you are my friend and someone says 892 00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:32,320 Speaker 2: to me Monique Shannon shot wronged me and you my friend, 893 00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:35,480 Speaker 2: I'm gonna call my friend you and I'm gonna say, hey, 894 00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:39,440 Speaker 2: is what they're saying true? And if you get to 895 00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:42,600 Speaker 2: hymen in han, I'm gonna tell you till you fix it. 896 00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:47,120 Speaker 2: You and I can't talk because if you'll do them 897 00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,759 Speaker 2: that way you do, it'll be a matter of time 898 00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:51,520 Speaker 2: before you do it to me. So if Steve Harvey 899 00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:54,040 Speaker 2: is your friend, you call your friend up and you 900 00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:57,120 Speaker 2: ask him, is what our sister saying right, man? Because 901 00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,719 Speaker 2: if it is, we can't do that to her. If 902 00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:05,080 Speaker 2: that's our sister say it took a transgender named T. S. Madison. 903 00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,120 Speaker 2: It was a guy named Jamaica Carter. Jamaica Carter and 904 00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,360 Speaker 2: our mutual friend, Jamaica Carter and our friends T. S. 905 00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,399 Speaker 2: Madison was a mutual friend. So Jamaica called me and said, 906 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,239 Speaker 2: would you mind doing TS Madison's show? 907 00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:17,759 Speaker 3: I go do T. S. 908 00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,920 Speaker 2: Madison's show. When I talk T. S. Madison when the 909 00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,399 Speaker 2: camera cuts, I said, listen, your friend is wrong. She said, 910 00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:26,839 Speaker 2: moniquely Daniels is my friend. I said, then you need 911 00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:28,759 Speaker 2: to call your friend and tell him to fix this shit. 912 00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,440 Speaker 2: She said, I will within a couple of days. Who 913 00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:34,520 Speaker 2: did I get a call from Lee Daniels. See that's 914 00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,799 Speaker 2: a friend, that's a true friend, and saying I love 915 00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,359 Speaker 2: you so much that I want to make sure that's 916 00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,800 Speaker 2: not on your heart or your conscience. Let's fix it, 917 00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:45,719 Speaker 2: Let's make it right. So when people asked Lee, now, 918 00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:47,920 Speaker 2: when we did the deliverance together, how was it to 919 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,160 Speaker 2: work with mo Nique, it was as if we had 920 00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:53,640 Speaker 2: never parted ways because he fixed it, he owned it, 921 00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:57,160 Speaker 2: and he took accountability for it. I can't now keep 922 00:50:57,200 --> 00:50:59,640 Speaker 2: you to the cross because you've owned it. I've had 923 00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:03,480 Speaker 2: to be forgiving, right. So I appreciate that someone had 924 00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,040 Speaker 2: grace and mercy with me. So I'm gonna have that 925 00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,160 Speaker 2: with other people when they take accountability for what they've done. 926 00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,120 Speaker 3: How much did you make for the role Mary Impression? 927 00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:13,600 Speaker 2: I was paid fifty thousand dollars. 928 00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:14,239 Speaker 3: That's it. 929 00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,960 Speaker 2: That's it, and I never complained because that's what I 930 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,759 Speaker 2: signed up for, was an independent film, right, So when 931 00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:25,680 Speaker 2: my friend called me, and I'm gonna quote him, he said, bitch, 932 00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:29,200 Speaker 2: this one right here, right here, he said, this shit 933 00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,839 Speaker 2: is crazy. By the time I got the page ten, 934 00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,160 Speaker 2: I called him back. I said, what the hell is 935 00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:37,680 Speaker 2: this lee? He said, bitch, I know, he said it's sick. 936 00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:40,800 Speaker 2: After my husband and I read that script, he said, Mama, 937 00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:45,479 Speaker 2: if you play this with no judgment when he say action, 938 00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:49,600 Speaker 2: don't judge the character just becoming, this is an award 939 00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:53,560 Speaker 2: winning Yes, this is award winning. So with all of 940 00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:57,120 Speaker 2: that being said, I never complained about the fifty thousand dollars. 941 00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:00,600 Speaker 2: I did everything I was supposed to do. No, oh, nothing. 942 00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:04,560 Speaker 2: It is when they started asking me to become a slave. 943 00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:08,640 Speaker 2: It is when Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey started asking 944 00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,320 Speaker 2: me to work for free. It is when they started 945 00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:14,279 Speaker 2: doing the bidding for whoever the gatekeeper was at the 946 00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,959 Speaker 2: time to say we can get her. Remember the scene 947 00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:20,560 Speaker 2: in Sparkle You ever seen Sparkle with Irene Carrol and 948 00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,040 Speaker 2: Feeling Michael Thomas. Remember when they was in the car 949 00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:24,560 Speaker 2: because the jew men was trying to get him to 950 00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,479 Speaker 2: sign over that contract and he kept shaking his head 951 00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,680 Speaker 2: like you will not get me to turn my back 952 00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:35,440 Speaker 2: on this woman. That's what this is. We ain't turning 953 00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:37,919 Speaker 2: out back. My husband ain't turning his back. He ain't 954 00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,440 Speaker 2: signing her for something he know ain't right. And people 955 00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:42,920 Speaker 2: have a problem with that. And we got to keep 956 00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,759 Speaker 2: speaking on the Shannon because the next one's coming. For real. 957 00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:47,960 Speaker 2: I would hate for you to have to sit another 958 00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:52,680 Speaker 2: sister in this chair and she tell you the same story. 959 00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:59,719 Speaker 1: So considering you one the Oscar, normally when you win 960 00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:02,759 Speaker 1: the Oscar, not saying you're gonna want another or get 961 00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:07,920 Speaker 1: Oscar worthy scripts, but there's normally a run where you 962 00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:11,840 Speaker 1: and you know two three films. Now, Monique that fifty 963 00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:14,320 Speaker 1: thousand is five hundred or a million or two million. 964 00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:20,200 Speaker 1: You feel feel that you were blackball from that point, 965 00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:23,720 Speaker 1: and Monique did not make the money what she should 966 00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:26,040 Speaker 1: have been compensated for future roles. 967 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:29,400 Speaker 2: Let's tie it all back in Okay, Okay. You have 968 00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:33,360 Speaker 2: a man that says a lot on you. Yes, I 969 00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,600 Speaker 2: put a rumor out there on you, Yeah, and I 970 00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:38,720 Speaker 2: said I was gonna apologize. But then you have another 971 00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,719 Speaker 2: man that comes back when I'm offered empire and says, mo, 972 00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:43,920 Speaker 2: they said you're difficult to work, which you're going to 973 00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:47,480 Speaker 2: be a problem. Where would they get that from work? 974 00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:49,480 Speaker 3: Somebody that as powerful as as timing? 975 00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:54,279 Speaker 2: Okay, so now I'm scratched from that. Yeah, right now, 976 00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:58,400 Speaker 2: when it comes to movies, I'm a difficult person to 977 00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:00,600 Speaker 2: work with. Anybody ever had a problem with me? 978 00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:03,360 Speaker 1: They never said, did they say, did anybody say that 979 00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:04,480 Speaker 1: pride oppression? 980 00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:04,799 Speaker 3: Yes? 981 00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:08,160 Speaker 2: No, not prior oppression. Right, I've never had a problem 982 00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:11,759 Speaker 2: with nobody as long as I was saying, yes, you good. 983 00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:14,360 Speaker 2: The moment you start challenging, we got a problem. 984 00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:16,600 Speaker 3: What about the Parker? What about Moesha? 985 00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:22,320 Speaker 1: Had anybody said anything pride about Monique's character prior to 986 00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:26,359 Speaker 1: her not wanting to do international press what she's wasn't 987 00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:28,200 Speaker 1: contractually obligated to do? 988 00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:30,040 Speaker 3: Proud of that? Nobody said anything. 989 00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:33,680 Speaker 2: Never. The only person that could say anything that is 990 00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,040 Speaker 2: a producer is a guy named Will Packer. I did 991 00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:40,560 Speaker 2: a movie called Almost Christmas. When Will Packer sat down 992 00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:42,880 Speaker 2: with my husband and I Shannon, every other word out 993 00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,440 Speaker 2: his mouth was queen, you are queen, and then the 994 00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:47,640 Speaker 2: queen and the queen and the queen, and we just 995 00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:50,640 Speaker 2: want you to do a cameo and here's what we're 996 00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:54,960 Speaker 2: gonna pay you. My husband said, Will, that does not 997 00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,480 Speaker 2: cover the mom with Nick doing promotions. That covers none 998 00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,520 Speaker 2: of that. Brother, This is just for the cameo. 999 00:54:59,600 --> 00:54:59,880 Speaker 3: Okay. 1000 00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,640 Speaker 2: Yes, the director was David Talbert. My husband and David 1001 00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,279 Speaker 2: Talbert were college roommates. They were across the hall from 1002 00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:10,399 Speaker 2: on it right in the script. I was that quick 1003 00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:14,719 Speaker 2: because it's a cameo. Okay, So ninety nine percent of 1004 00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:17,800 Speaker 2: the things you heard may say it was Monique, it 1005 00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:21,800 Speaker 2: was me at Libby, Yeah, okay, because it's a cameo. 1006 00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:24,759 Speaker 2: When we had a meeting with Will pack and Will 1007 00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:26,920 Speaker 2: Packer says, if you do this for me, I'll give 1008 00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:30,920 Speaker 2: you a three pitcher deal, and they sit com Now 1009 00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,960 Speaker 2: we have all of this in writing. It's all and right. 1010 00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:35,400 Speaker 3: What were you? What were you? What were you? 1011 00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:37,279 Speaker 1: What were you needing to do a press? You were 1012 00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:39,040 Speaker 1: gonna need to do press for it. You don't need 1013 00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:40,960 Speaker 1: to promote it or just just. 1014 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,400 Speaker 2: Do the just do the cameo. That is what was 1015 00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:45,800 Speaker 2: agreed upon. We were gonna do a cameo for the 1016 00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:47,759 Speaker 2: amount of money that he said they were gonna pay, 1017 00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:51,200 Speaker 2: no problem. Well, what they did was they kept spreading 1018 00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:53,960 Speaker 2: it out. They kept spreading this character out. We want 1019 00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:55,279 Speaker 2: you on this scene and that scene in this. 1020 00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:56,800 Speaker 3: Scene, ain't no cameo cameo. 1021 00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:01,440 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, David Talbert is out, is our friend. We 1022 00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:03,640 Speaker 2: don't want to make this bad for David Tybert. So 1023 00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:08,040 Speaker 2: we said, okay, no problem. Now let's talk about the treatment. 1024 00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:12,000 Speaker 2: While we're on that set of Almost Christmas, there were 1025 00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,000 Speaker 2: a few things that was happening that I took issue with. 1026 00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:18,799 Speaker 2: Will Packer is a producer. He came on that set 1027 00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:21,400 Speaker 2: and tried to give us a direction while the director 1028 00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:24,200 Speaker 2: was standing right there. I said, Will Packer, I will 1029 00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:26,200 Speaker 2: not allow you to do that. You would never do 1030 00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:28,480 Speaker 2: that to Steven Spielberg. You would never do that to 1031 00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:30,680 Speaker 2: a white director. You as a producer, going to just 1032 00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:32,680 Speaker 2: walk in and give a direction. So I will not 1033 00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,279 Speaker 2: take direction from you. If you have something you want 1034 00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,160 Speaker 2: to give to me, you give it to the director, 1035 00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,040 Speaker 2: and you have the director to give it to me. 1036 00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,920 Speaker 2: You are disrespectful to him. Now. I had a meeting 1037 00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:46,080 Speaker 2: in David Talbot's trailer with Will Packer, David Talbert, and 1038 00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:48,880 Speaker 2: the first ad because they were being disrespectful to this 1039 00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,719 Speaker 2: black man, and I was not gonna allow that to happen. 1040 00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,600 Speaker 2: I had a conversation with the first ad and I 1041 00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:57,799 Speaker 2: pulled him outside. I said, listen, brother, when it's your turn, 1042 00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,800 Speaker 2: I won't let nobody do it to you. But what 1043 00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:02,239 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do a stand by and watch you 1044 00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:05,240 Speaker 2: give a direction after the director give us a direction. 1045 00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:08,920 Speaker 2: It confuses the cast and it's disrespectful. And to that 1046 00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,800 Speaker 2: black man's credit, his eyes filled up with water and 1047 00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:15,560 Speaker 2: he said, I appreciate you for having this conversation with me. Okay, 1048 00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:19,440 Speaker 2: so we'll pack, and I now at odds because I'm 1049 00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:22,280 Speaker 2: seeing how this brother is acting. I'm in my trailer. 1050 00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:26,200 Speaker 2: My assistant at the time, her name was Robin, right, 1051 00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,480 Speaker 2: Robin is in her fifties. She's in my trailer with 1052 00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:32,960 Speaker 2: her shoes off. She's on the computer. We'll packer's friend 1053 00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:36,640 Speaker 2: or I'm not sure what title to give her. Okay, 1054 00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:40,000 Speaker 2: she comes into the trailer. Now, in this trailer, it 1055 00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:44,640 Speaker 2: is me, my hairstylist, makeup artist, and my assistant. This 1056 00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:47,400 Speaker 2: young lady who we're all old enough to be her mother. 1057 00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:50,200 Speaker 2: She comes and looks at my assistant and says, what's 1058 00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:51,200 Speaker 2: your shoes doing off? 1059 00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:55,120 Speaker 3: You and your trailer? Why do you care? 1060 00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:59,840 Speaker 2: I said, excuse me, you're out of order. You canna 1061 00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:03,240 Speaker 2: come in here questioning nobody in my trailer as a 1062 00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:06,320 Speaker 2: matter of fact, And her energy was not that I'm playing, 1063 00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:08,760 Speaker 2: It was what I said, as a matter of fact, 1064 00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:10,800 Speaker 2: I need you to go get well because I'm not 1065 00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:13,560 Speaker 2: even gonna have this conversation with you. I'm gonna talk 1066 00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:16,840 Speaker 2: to your boss. When Will Packard comes into that trailer 1067 00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:19,000 Speaker 2: for us to talk, do you know what that man 1068 00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:22,640 Speaker 2: says to me and my hairstylist and my makeup artists 1069 00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,600 Speaker 2: and my assistant. I am the head, nigga in charge. 1070 00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:30,920 Speaker 2: Everything stops with me. I said, Well, I want to 1071 00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:33,360 Speaker 2: let you notice. Will, You're gonna hear that you're the 1072 00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:35,160 Speaker 2: head and nigga in charge for me as many times 1073 00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:37,800 Speaker 2: as I can tell people, that's what you said. I said. 1074 00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:40,880 Speaker 2: And furthermore, you need to check your assistant because this 1075 00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,280 Speaker 2: is my space. We weren't in your trailer with our 1076 00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:45,640 Speaker 2: shoes off. We're in my space with our shoes off. 1077 00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:47,200 Speaker 3: But why would he come Why would he come to 1078 00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:51,520 Speaker 3: you with that type of managery? What led what. 1079 00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:56,720 Speaker 1: Led him to say that when all you asked his 1080 00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:01,760 Speaker 1: assistant to do was to go get him because she'sler 1081 00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:02,400 Speaker 1: have the truth. 1082 00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:04,360 Speaker 2: That's a good one because what I said to him was, 1083 00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:07,080 Speaker 2: who do we need to talk to this young lady? 1084 00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:08,960 Speaker 2: Can't be up in here like that. And that's when 1085 00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,439 Speaker 2: he became the head nigga in charge. And then I said, 1086 00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:12,960 Speaker 2: who are you the head and nigga in charge of? 1087 00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:15,880 Speaker 2: We have Danny Glover on this set. We have a 1088 00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:17,960 Speaker 2: legend and the icon. Are you the head nigga in 1089 00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:19,840 Speaker 2: charge of him? Are you the head nigga in charge 1090 00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:21,600 Speaker 2: of Kim Lee Elisee? Are you the head and nigga 1091 00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:23,840 Speaker 2: in charge of Gabrielle Union? Are you the head nigga 1092 00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:25,880 Speaker 2: in charge of JB. Smooth? Who are you the head 1093 00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:28,360 Speaker 2: and nigga in charge of? So he tried to laugh 1094 00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:31,120 Speaker 2: at and joke it. I said, I don't play that way, brother. 1095 00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:34,360 Speaker 2: I said. The food is bad like what we're doing here. 1096 00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:37,160 Speaker 2: The food was slopped. So when they say they didn't 1097 00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:40,080 Speaker 2: have any food, the food we had, nobody ever ate 1098 00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:42,160 Speaker 2: that food because it was just like you can feed 1099 00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:44,680 Speaker 2: them anything. Now Here is where it gets even better. 1100 00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:48,840 Speaker 2: Remember how to Rogie said the trailers were infested. Yes, 1101 00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:57,240 Speaker 2: our trailers blew up. They blew up. Now whenever this 1102 00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:00,600 Speaker 2: airs I'm gonna post the trailers blowing so the people 1103 01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:03,400 Speaker 2: can see. But they blew up, and if any of 1104 01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:06,280 Speaker 2: us were in those trailers, we would have been gone. 1105 01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:11,320 Speaker 2: The trailers blew up. Now, when I was smelling the gas, 1106 01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:14,680 Speaker 2: we went to the brothers that was hooking up the 1107 01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:19,320 Speaker 2: trailers and we said, hey, we smell gas. They said, mo, 1108 01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:23,040 Speaker 2: we let him know. Talking about the head nigga in charge. 1109 01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,320 Speaker 2: We let him know. He just said okay and walk away. 1110 01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:28,400 Speaker 2: I said he what He just said okay and walked away. 1111 01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:33,400 Speaker 2: The trailers blew up. Did We'll packer reach out to anybody? 1112 01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:36,160 Speaker 2: I can't say. He didn't reach out to me and say, hey, 1113 01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:41,840 Speaker 2: is everything okay? Did you lose anything? Is everything good? 1114 01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:44,080 Speaker 2: The only thing they wanted to know from me was 1115 01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:49,600 Speaker 2: where was Aunt May's wigs? Huh? Where are those wigs? 1116 01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:55,520 Speaker 2: Nobody asked, not the studio, not We'll Packer, not nobody 1117 01:00:55,920 --> 01:01:00,000 Speaker 2: wow said are you good? Did you lose anything? Said 1118 01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:04,360 Speaker 2: that the wigs blew up in the explosion. So to 1119 01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:09,120 Speaker 2: understand what we have to deal with, and to understand 1120 01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:13,160 Speaker 2: most people are too afraid to say it out loud 1121 01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:19,680 Speaker 2: that we are being mistreated. This is this is not right. 1122 01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:22,520 Speaker 2: So if that means y'all won't want to play with me, 1123 01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:24,840 Speaker 2: I don't want to play with you either. Let's be clear. 1124 01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:26,840 Speaker 2: I don't want to play with somebody that don't care 1125 01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:30,760 Speaker 2: if I've blown up? What if we were in those trailers? 1126 01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:35,000 Speaker 2: What do y'all say to my family? What do you say? 1127 01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:41,280 Speaker 2: So with Precious, I owe no one anything. With almost Christmas, 1128 01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:44,200 Speaker 2: I owed you nothing. However, I did it because we 1129 01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:47,680 Speaker 2: had a relationship with a brother named David Towert and 1130 01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:50,560 Speaker 2: we didn't want to send him do no drama, no nothing, 1131 01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:53,400 Speaker 2: so we went along with it. Other than that Shannon's shop, 1132 01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:55,760 Speaker 2: there is no one that can say that, will sit 1133 01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:58,680 Speaker 2: in my face, on my husband's face and say we 1134 01:01:58,800 --> 01:01:59,880 Speaker 2: had a bad experience with you. 1135 01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:04,200 Speaker 1: I read that, you said, you read this is a 1136 01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:09,400 Speaker 1: chapter of forgiveness. That's your thing, chapter of I didn't 1137 01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:09,600 Speaker 1: say that. 1138 01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:12,160 Speaker 2: That's what the guy in Hollywood reporter said. Okay, don't 1139 01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:14,439 Speaker 2: put words in my mind. That's not what I said. 1140 01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:15,520 Speaker 2: That's what his ass said. 1141 01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:16,160 Speaker 3: What did you say? 1142 01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:18,320 Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, that's what he said. 1143 01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:22,080 Speaker 3: Listen, what would it take Mo? Mo? What would it 1144 01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:29,440 Speaker 3: take for Mo need to forgive? Oprah and Tyler Perry. 1145 01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:34,480 Speaker 2: Be accountable, Be accountable as you. 1146 01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:37,160 Speaker 3: Want Tyler Perry to say what he said on that tape. 1147 01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:38,000 Speaker 3: You want him to say that. 1148 01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:42,680 Speaker 2: Public, and he costs my family millions. Yes, I want 1149 01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:46,320 Speaker 2: to be very clear about that. If someone cost you millions, 1150 01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:47,200 Speaker 2: do you want that bad? 1151 01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:48,080 Speaker 3: Absolutely? So. 1152 01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:51,280 Speaker 2: I'm no different than you, especially when I've done nothing wrong, 1153 01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:55,080 Speaker 2: especially when you've admitted that you've lied, especially when you've 1154 01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:58,640 Speaker 2: admitted that you started a rumor. Yes, you need to 1155 01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:02,440 Speaker 2: compensate me and my family for Oprah, for Oprah Winfrey, 1156 01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:07,440 Speaker 2: you owe me an apology. See sharning. Oprah and I 1157 01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:11,720 Speaker 2: had a private conversation about our mothers. This the part 1158 01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:15,000 Speaker 2: people don't know. I shared with that woman with me 1159 01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,520 Speaker 2: and my mother were going through. Now my mother's no 1160 01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:21,920 Speaker 2: longer here, right, And I shared with Oprah Winfrey what 1161 01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:24,600 Speaker 2: we were going through and how I felt, and I was, 1162 01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,600 Speaker 2: you know, you trying to balance it off because it's 1163 01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:30,120 Speaker 2: your mother. And I shared that with you, and I 1164 01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:33,080 Speaker 2: shared with her my family and what the dynamic was. 1165 01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:35,280 Speaker 2: And you don't tell me you're gonna have my guide 1166 01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:37,520 Speaker 2: their own parents. I was getting ready to say, God, 1167 01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:39,480 Speaker 2: damn baby, it was right there. But you don't tell 1168 01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:41,800 Speaker 2: me you great had my mother and my father on 1169 01:03:41,920 --> 01:03:45,400 Speaker 2: your show, and you think that that's just okay. And 1170 01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:47,400 Speaker 2: the way you try to apologize in front of a 1171 01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:50,280 Speaker 2: group of women. If you think I've done anything wrong, 1172 01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:55,400 Speaker 2: you're gonna stop that, right. I am very proud of 1173 01:03:55,480 --> 01:04:00,240 Speaker 2: what you've accomplished in your life. We respect everybody, but 1174 01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:05,280 Speaker 2: we over respect no one. And Oprah Winfrey walks around 1175 01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:08,360 Speaker 2: like I can't be checked. I won't admit to that. 1176 01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:09,960 Speaker 3: I'm a firm believer more. 1177 01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:13,040 Speaker 2: No one is beyond repro no one at all. So 1178 01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:15,440 Speaker 2: when you keep saying what is it, I'm gonna keep 1179 01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:18,320 Speaker 2: answering you the same exact way. So if you talk 1180 01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:20,160 Speaker 2: to your camera, I'm gonna talk to my camera and 1181 01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:22,200 Speaker 2: see how they split the screen, and we're gonna invite 1182 01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:25,160 Speaker 2: them at the same time. You talk to them first, uh. 1183 01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:28,480 Speaker 1: Tyler, Oprah, I would greatly appreciate it if you two 1184 01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:31,320 Speaker 1: guys would come on club Shayshay, we sit down, we 1185 01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:33,680 Speaker 1: have a conversation. This is not an interview, this is 1186 01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:36,200 Speaker 1: not hard hitting. I want you to tell your truth, 1187 01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:39,680 Speaker 1: miss Oprah Tyler, tell your truth and we can get. 1188 01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:41,880 Speaker 3: To the bottom of this. Because hey, we got an 1189 01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:44,240 Speaker 3: icon here sitting on this couch and she's hurting. 1190 01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:47,920 Speaker 2: Oprah and Tyler. I want to say, I appreciate my 1191 01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:50,560 Speaker 2: brother Shannon Shaw for saying what he just said. And 1192 01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:53,600 Speaker 2: I want to clear something up. I'm not hurt personally. 1193 01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:57,240 Speaker 2: I'm hurt for our community. I'm hurt that y'all would 1194 01:04:57,280 --> 01:05:00,160 Speaker 2: allow yourselves to sit in something that you need, know 1195 01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:03,760 Speaker 2: that you've done wrong, and not say anything that helps us. 1196 01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:06,520 Speaker 2: Not so brother Shasha have said, y'all, come on on 1197 01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:09,720 Speaker 2: the sofa, Opra. This liquor is good, okay, And I 1198 01:05:09,880 --> 01:05:13,520 Speaker 2: understand you like cranberry and vodka. Okay. Roosevelt cart Right 1199 01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:15,520 Speaker 2: told me your drink that you like, and you know, 1200 01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:17,320 Speaker 2: he told me some other things with the drink that 1201 01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:20,080 Speaker 2: you're like. Come on on, uncle Shay, Shay, let's have 1202 01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:22,680 Speaker 2: a conversation. And well, you took yours all the way 1203 01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:26,880 Speaker 2: down and I cannot okay, okay, I cannot. I cannot 1204 01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:30,000 Speaker 2: do that you already did. Thank you, sugar. Now, when 1205 01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:31,520 Speaker 2: we get ready wrap up, I'm gonna give you an 1206 01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:35,000 Speaker 2: exclusive on something that I don't nobody know. Okay, don't 1207 01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:38,040 Speaker 2: nobody know this, and it's gonna be something. 1208 01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:38,840 Speaker 3: It's gonna be something. 1209 01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:40,440 Speaker 2: It's gonna be something I want to get you. 1210 01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:42,880 Speaker 1: Look, I know it's dramatic, and if you don't want 1211 01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:45,920 Speaker 1: to have to relive it, you don't have to what 1212 01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:52,320 Speaker 1: you went through with your brother, Yes, when you're going 1213 01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:57,720 Speaker 1: through that, how is that impacting you? 1214 01:05:59,640 --> 01:06:01,920 Speaker 3: Doing time? Because I think you're seven to thirteen. 1215 01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:06,520 Speaker 2: You better do your damn homework, Shannon Shaw. 1216 01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:11,280 Speaker 3: And the impact that has had on you and your 1217 01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:13,000 Speaker 3: relationship with men. 1218 01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:21,960 Speaker 2: Oh Lanning trying to be a journalist. Look at you, 1219 01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:24,919 Speaker 2: damn it. You see you're trying to cut my brother 1220 01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:37,200 Speaker 2: Wan's get off my brother boar inn pat Wow. Remember 1221 01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:39,040 Speaker 2: when you said and I don't know if you said this, 1222 01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:40,600 Speaker 2: so I don't want to quote it because I could 1223 01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:43,160 Speaker 2: be wrong. But someone said, Shannon Shaw, don't mess with 1224 01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:43,760 Speaker 2: black women. 1225 01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:48,080 Speaker 3: And before are you going to further? Can I say 1226 01:06:48,160 --> 01:06:51,960 Speaker 3: this please? My grandmother told me something out the little boy. 1227 01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:54,160 Speaker 3: She said, boy never chased a lie. 1228 01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:59,760 Speaker 2: Come on, dady, come on, come on, And you never 1229 01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:02,680 Speaker 2: said that, right, Okay, So that's why I said I 1230 01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:05,400 Speaker 2: got black kids. That's what I said. I said that 1231 01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:09,600 Speaker 2: baby's black black. Yes, they're not confusing. We ain't trying 1232 01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:12,080 Speaker 2: to see if she's Latin or Dominican. They black black, 1233 01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:14,840 Speaker 2: they mama got black black. Everybody that's shit and mess 1234 01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:20,479 Speaker 2: way was black black right? Black black? Okay, So there's 1235 01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:28,960 Speaker 2: this thing with us that you can't tell us nothing. 1236 01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:33,720 Speaker 2: And oftentimes when a black woman's been traumatized, she's guarded. 1237 01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:37,680 Speaker 2: Now you take a black woman that's been traumatized and 1238 01:07:37,720 --> 01:07:42,960 Speaker 2: now she got a little bit of money, and you 1239 01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:48,160 Speaker 2: take black men, some of them that is impressed with 1240 01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:52,240 Speaker 2: the money. So I can say to you what I 1241 01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:56,240 Speaker 2: want to, not being totally disrespectful, but you know who's 1242 01:07:56,280 --> 01:08:00,440 Speaker 2: running this. You know how we do this. I've always 1243 01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:07,760 Speaker 2: had an aggressive personality. Yes, I have always jumped with 1244 01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:12,280 Speaker 2: if I think you trying to violate, So to say 1245 01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:20,320 Speaker 2: what did that do to me? It made me like this, 1246 01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:24,240 Speaker 2: and it made me say I'll get you before you 1247 01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:26,439 Speaker 2: can get me, because I know what it's like to 1248 01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:29,080 Speaker 2: not be in control of what you're taking from me. 1249 01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:31,040 Speaker 2: I know what it's like to be in a position 1250 01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:35,240 Speaker 2: where there's nothing I can do right. So when it 1251 01:08:35,360 --> 01:08:39,800 Speaker 2: came to men, baby listen, I had my share. Okay, 1252 01:08:40,360 --> 01:08:44,120 Speaker 2: I'm not saying I was no whore, but I was close. 1253 01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:47,760 Speaker 2: Hey come on, now, I'm saying to get back to me. Now, 1254 01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:50,200 Speaker 2: get back to me. Call me later, call me later, 1255 01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:54,160 Speaker 2: say and call me later. Baby, Come on, because you're 1256 01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:56,240 Speaker 2: a football player with a lot of money. When you 1257 01:08:56,360 --> 01:08:58,000 Speaker 2: go into a city and you was in your prime, 1258 01:08:58,240 --> 01:09:01,600 Speaker 2: you had your pick. It's no different woman. When I 1259 01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:06,280 Speaker 2: went to a city, everybody wanted to be professor Oglevie Hey, 1260 01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:09,880 Speaker 2: and I would pick him. Okay, you look like you 1261 01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:11,559 Speaker 2: could think bussy heard the thing. 1262 01:09:11,760 --> 01:09:16,000 Speaker 3: Now all of a sudden, you being this fat black woman. 1263 01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:19,360 Speaker 3: It ain't a problem. God, I remember, I remember you 1264 01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:19,760 Speaker 3: that it. 1265 01:09:19,880 --> 01:09:23,040 Speaker 2: Wasn't Let me say that, it wasn't never a problem 1266 01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:25,439 Speaker 2: with me being a fat black woman because real black men, 1267 01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:28,719 Speaker 2: they like them in all and size. It's all complex, 1268 01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:31,679 Speaker 2: and it is these new nick rolls that get into 1269 01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:33,880 Speaker 2: she gotta be this way, she gotta be that way. 1270 01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:37,440 Speaker 2: But real black man, if you can pick a poundcake, 1271 01:09:37,520 --> 01:09:44,160 Speaker 2: nugget what y'all talking about? What you talking about? But 1272 01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:48,240 Speaker 2: what it did, though, was and this is why I 1273 01:09:48,320 --> 01:09:49,880 Speaker 2: feel the way I feel about my husband. 1274 01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:50,280 Speaker 3: Okay. 1275 01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:53,519 Speaker 2: I remember him saying to me one night because when 1276 01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:55,920 Speaker 2: we first got together, I was I was a handful 1277 01:09:55,920 --> 01:09:59,640 Speaker 2: of Shannon, and that's when I was really sick in 1278 01:09:59,720 --> 01:10:02,920 Speaker 2: the that I thought, And he said, checked this out. 1279 01:10:03,840 --> 01:10:06,720 Speaker 2: You've used your brother molesting you as a crutch for 1280 01:10:06,880 --> 01:10:10,120 Speaker 2: your bad behavior, he said. And I won't allow that. 1281 01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:12,280 Speaker 2: He said. When you was a little girl, there was 1282 01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:14,200 Speaker 2: nothing you can do about it. But now it's a 1283 01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:17,200 Speaker 2: grown woman. Every choice and decision you make, it is yours. 1284 01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:19,639 Speaker 2: And I will not allow you to keep on saying 1285 01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:22,040 Speaker 2: because of my brother, because at what point do you 1286 01:10:22,120 --> 01:10:26,240 Speaker 2: take accountability for you baby? That grew me up and 1287 01:10:26,320 --> 01:10:28,519 Speaker 2: that night that grew my ass up that night so 1288 01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:31,520 Speaker 2: fast because I wanted I wanted to hear what myst 1289 01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:35,080 Speaker 2: my psychiatrist was saying to me, I understand. My husband 1290 01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:38,200 Speaker 2: was like, check this out, check this out. You are 1291 01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:41,720 Speaker 2: in control of you, every choice and decision you make, 1292 01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:44,240 Speaker 2: every one you lay down with that was your choice. 1293 01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:45,800 Speaker 2: You've never come back to me and said you were 1294 01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:49,000 Speaker 2: raped as a grown woman. You've never said that. So 1295 01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:53,200 Speaker 2: stop holding onto that crutch, Stop holding onto that victim. 1296 01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:57,840 Speaker 2: Because this happened to me. I'm mad for days and 1297 01:10:57,960 --> 01:10:59,840 Speaker 2: not come up out of that. And when I want 1298 01:10:59,880 --> 01:11:05,120 Speaker 2: to the psychiatrist right everything my husband said to me, 1299 01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:09,280 Speaker 2: The psychiatrist said to me, But he said I needed 1300 01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:11,080 Speaker 2: you to go to somebody that had no dog in 1301 01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:12,960 Speaker 2: the fight because I didn't want you to think I 1302 01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:15,960 Speaker 2: was judging you. I didn't want you to think that 1303 01:11:16,240 --> 01:11:19,960 Speaker 2: because I know the history. I'm pointing my finger. So 1304 01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:22,759 Speaker 2: when I would go to that psychiatrist, doctor Cassandra Juanso, 1305 01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:25,759 Speaker 2: she's incredible. You'all want to know about red bottom shoes. 1306 01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:27,920 Speaker 2: Let me tell you somebody that's gonna get your mind right, 1307 01:11:28,280 --> 01:11:31,720 Speaker 2: doctor Cassandra Wanso. This woman was incredible. But every time 1308 01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:35,679 Speaker 2: I would go to session, everything she said, my husband 1309 01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:39,880 Speaker 2: had already told me. So me and men. I had 1310 01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:41,840 Speaker 2: to come to grips with that. I had to come 1311 01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:44,439 Speaker 2: to grips with being an insecure fat girl. And I 1312 01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:46,400 Speaker 2: had to come to grips with my sister telling me, 1313 01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:48,639 Speaker 2: ain't no man gonna ever really want you because you're fat. 1314 01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:51,559 Speaker 2: I had to come to grips with my father was like, listen, 1315 01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:53,439 Speaker 2: I'm here, but I'm really not. I had to come 1316 01:11:53,479 --> 01:11:56,320 Speaker 2: to grips with those things. So my way of coming 1317 01:11:56,360 --> 01:11:58,400 Speaker 2: to grips with those things was now, I'm a boss, 1318 01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:02,760 Speaker 2: I'm in, I'm empowered. Don't you know I run this? See, 1319 01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:06,160 Speaker 2: I too went to the Oprah Winford University of Empowerment, 1320 01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:08,479 Speaker 2: and you don't need a man to make it. I 1321 01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:11,040 Speaker 2: signed up and I was at the top of the 1322 01:12:11,080 --> 01:12:13,559 Speaker 2: class till I realized I was going to be it empty. 1323 01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:16,920 Speaker 2: I was going to be it with nothing but stuff. 1324 01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:19,360 Speaker 2: I did not want to be the poor little rich 1325 01:12:19,479 --> 01:12:22,320 Speaker 2: girl who have everything but nothing at all. Don't that 1326 01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:25,519 Speaker 2: sound familiar? I did not want to be that, Shannon. 1327 01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:29,080 Speaker 6: So even for the men, even for the men that 1328 01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:35,760 Speaker 6: I was with, right, you worked with them, I wasn't no, okay, 1329 01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:36,160 Speaker 6: talk to. 1330 01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:39,200 Speaker 2: Me, Shannon, that that liquor usual. I wasn't with them. 1331 01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:40,920 Speaker 3: That was just the body for the loanly. 1332 01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:47,640 Speaker 2: Liquor makes sh it sound good morning. Liquor would make 1333 01:12:47,720 --> 01:12:49,560 Speaker 2: you not sound like a whole. It was just a 1334 01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:51,960 Speaker 2: body for the lonely. Let me tell you what my 1335 01:12:52,040 --> 01:12:53,960 Speaker 2: husband told me. Right, because I was at tears, I'm like, 1336 01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:56,599 Speaker 2: I'm I'm you know, I was. I was a whole. 1337 01:12:56,640 --> 01:12:59,760 Speaker 2: I was crying. I was because because when you come 1338 01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:03,599 Speaker 2: to rips with it, when you realize how many, when 1339 01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:06,040 Speaker 2: you realize what you've done, and you got to come 1340 01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:07,679 Speaker 2: to grips with it. And now I'm sitting in front 1341 01:13:07,680 --> 01:13:10,439 Speaker 2: of the greatest person I've ever met. And I gotta say, 1342 01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:14,200 Speaker 2: I have been with this many And my husband looked 1343 01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:16,560 Speaker 2: at me and said, Mama, you ain't no whore. You 1344 01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:24,600 Speaker 2: just have friendly pussy. Didn't he make it right? So 1345 01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:29,519 Speaker 2: for you horns out there, friendly pussy, that's what he 1346 01:13:29,600 --> 01:13:31,280 Speaker 2: told me. He made it right. 1347 01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:36,280 Speaker 3: So did you ever have a good relationship with your father? 1348 01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:40,840 Speaker 2: Yes? When I was a little girl, little, When I 1349 01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:42,760 Speaker 2: was a little girl, my father could do no wrong. 1350 01:13:43,400 --> 01:13:45,360 Speaker 2: When I was a little girl, baby, my father would 1351 01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:46,920 Speaker 2: put me in that car and he would go to 1352 01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:49,280 Speaker 2: the cut Race store and he get his liquor and 1353 01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:51,920 Speaker 2: he go over mister Johnny House. Now I'm a little girl, right, 1354 01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:53,920 Speaker 2: He go over mister Johnny House, and him and mister 1355 01:13:54,040 --> 01:13:55,679 Speaker 2: Johnny go on the back and I could smell a reefer, 1356 01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:57,600 Speaker 2: but I didn't know it was reefer, right, And they 1357 01:13:57,720 --> 01:13:59,680 Speaker 2: smoke and they had their little drink to come back out. 1358 01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:03,040 Speaker 2: I was attached to him. Me and my father start 1359 01:14:03,120 --> 01:14:04,800 Speaker 2: having a problem when what he was saying to me 1360 01:14:04,920 --> 01:14:09,080 Speaker 2: wasn't making sense. And now I'm about thirteen. He was 1361 01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:12,519 Speaker 2: just he was He was a bullshitter, but he was 1362 01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:15,280 Speaker 2: a good sound and bullshitter and so as a kids, 1363 01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:18,200 Speaker 2: you'd be like my father know everything. But once I 1364 01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:21,439 Speaker 2: started growing up and I started seeing the treatment that 1365 01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:25,680 Speaker 2: he gave my mother. Never physically abusive, but mentally they 1366 01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:28,439 Speaker 2: abused one another. I won't just put it on. But 1367 01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:32,680 Speaker 2: once I started questioning him on just some of his 1368 01:14:32,880 --> 01:14:36,439 Speaker 2: decisions and choices, I became the bad person. And I 1369 01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:39,400 Speaker 2: went to my grandmother one time, Mini, I talked about 1370 01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:47,280 Speaker 2: her there and my father. This was one incident that 1371 01:14:47,400 --> 01:14:51,519 Speaker 2: sent me to my grandmother bent over crying. I was 1372 01:14:51,600 --> 01:14:55,880 Speaker 2: trying to get a Ford festival right. It was four gears. Okay, 1373 01:14:56,360 --> 01:14:58,880 Speaker 2: it was about two dollars, but I didn't have the 1374 01:14:58,960 --> 01:15:02,920 Speaker 2: two dollars. I needed a co sign, right, So I 1375 01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:05,920 Speaker 2: asked my father please co sign for me to get 1376 01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:08,559 Speaker 2: this for in fest. Steve, and I'm gonna quote him. 1377 01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:12,800 Speaker 2: He said, Nikki, you won't fuck up my credit. And 1378 01:15:12,880 --> 01:15:14,240 Speaker 2: I'm like, well, what have I ever done to make 1379 01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:16,080 Speaker 2: you think I would fuck up your credit? If I 1380 01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:20,200 Speaker 2: pay my rent on time, I'm responsible. I go to work. No, 1381 01:15:21,120 --> 01:15:24,000 Speaker 2: the next week, not only did he co sign for 1382 01:15:24,120 --> 01:15:27,400 Speaker 2: my sister, he just signed for my sister, like he 1383 01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:30,160 Speaker 2: put the car in this name, right. I go to 1384 01:15:30,280 --> 01:15:33,439 Speaker 2: my grandmother, and I'm like, Mammy, why would he do that? 1385 01:15:33,760 --> 01:15:38,040 Speaker 2: Like she said, Nikki, every parent knows their weakest link, 1386 01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:41,280 Speaker 2: and every parent knows the one that's gonna be okay. 1387 01:15:42,479 --> 01:15:46,439 Speaker 2: She said, You're gonna be okay. At that point, I 1388 01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:49,880 Speaker 2: wiped my tears and I'm glad he didn't co sign. 1389 01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:52,519 Speaker 2: I'm glad I had to bust my ass to get it. 1390 01:15:52,720 --> 01:15:54,960 Speaker 2: I'm glad I had to figure it out. I'm glad 1391 01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:57,360 Speaker 2: he didn't just come and rescue it. I had to 1392 01:15:57,439 --> 01:15:59,640 Speaker 2: figure it out. So that's why right now, when I 1393 01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:02,559 Speaker 2: sit here and you go through a decade of being 1394 01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:06,600 Speaker 2: black ball or whatever, you're difficult and all. Let it 1395 01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:09,960 Speaker 2: allowed me to keep standing. It allowed me not to 1396 01:16:10,680 --> 01:16:13,519 Speaker 2: It allowed me not to go sit on a couch 1397 01:16:13,600 --> 01:16:16,280 Speaker 2: with Oprah Winfrey and say I'm sorry for nothing I've 1398 01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:19,360 Speaker 2: ever done to you. That's what those lessons taught me. 1399 01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:22,560 Speaker 2: Stand in it and stand strong, unapologetically. 1400 01:16:22,640 --> 01:16:24,840 Speaker 1: Do you speak a lot doing this interview? Spoke a 1401 01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:27,519 Speaker 1: lot about cursives and the trauma. How do we break 1402 01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:32,280 Speaker 1: that generational trauma, that curse that is that in our community. 1403 01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:36,240 Speaker 2: What we've said from the beginning, and that's truth. It's 1404 01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:39,720 Speaker 2: just the truth. We get so comfortable based off of 1405 01:16:39,880 --> 01:16:43,559 Speaker 2: lies that the lies become the truth. I think if 1406 01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:47,160 Speaker 2: we just started dealing with the truth, address, address it. 1407 01:16:47,880 --> 01:16:50,479 Speaker 2: Even when it doesn't put you in a good light, 1408 01:16:51,240 --> 01:16:53,599 Speaker 2: it eventually does put you in a good light because 1409 01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:56,839 Speaker 2: then people start talking about your honor and your character 1410 01:16:57,200 --> 01:17:00,280 Speaker 2: and your integrity. If I've wronged you, please tell me, 1411 01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:03,280 Speaker 2: Please tell me, and then show me where I've wronged you. 1412 01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:05,200 Speaker 2: If you can say, Monique, this is what you did 1413 01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:08,880 Speaker 2: right here, then I owe you an apology. But if 1414 01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:12,960 Speaker 2: our community dealt in truth, how much further would we be. 1415 01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:16,639 Speaker 2: That's it. That's how I think we make it better. 1416 01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:18,880 Speaker 2: We deal in the absolute truth. 1417 01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:21,680 Speaker 3: But sometimes, you know, it's kind of like what I 1418 01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:22,160 Speaker 3: tell people. 1419 01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:24,320 Speaker 1: I would explaining it some when I said, just imagine 1420 01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:27,680 Speaker 1: you went to the doctor, Lord forbid, that's happened. You 1421 01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:31,800 Speaker 1: have cancer, but we're not gonna treat it. It's gonna 1422 01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:35,280 Speaker 1: go away. No doctor will tell you that you have 1423 01:17:35,439 --> 01:17:37,880 Speaker 1: something going on. We're not gonna talk about it. It'll 1424 01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:38,479 Speaker 1: just go away. 1425 01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:42,000 Speaker 2: That's what they bank on. That's what they bank on. 1426 01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:44,400 Speaker 2: And too many of our black women have gone to 1427 01:17:44,479 --> 01:17:50,599 Speaker 2: their graves. They've left here in despair. They've left here 1428 01:17:50,640 --> 01:17:54,519 Speaker 2: broken hearted, broken, broke down, and we got a chance 1429 01:17:54,560 --> 01:17:57,200 Speaker 2: to see it Enliven in person with our beautiful sister 1430 01:17:57,280 --> 01:17:58,120 Speaker 2: to Araji Hinson. 1431 01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:04,040 Speaker 1: What gave you the courage? Your Netflix? They offer you 1432 01:18:04,160 --> 01:18:09,400 Speaker 1: one thing. You found out they had gave someone ten 1433 01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:14,519 Speaker 1: times that, No, twenty times, come on, twenty six, twenty 1434 01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:17,200 Speaker 1: six times that. And you're like, no, no, no no, 1435 01:18:17,240 --> 01:18:19,200 Speaker 1: no no no no no, no, no no no, I'm 1436 01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:20,680 Speaker 1: not paying to do that. We're not gonna do that. 1437 01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:21,960 Speaker 1: We're gonna do fair. 1438 01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:23,200 Speaker 3: That's what we do. 1439 01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:25,920 Speaker 1: I mean, you speak about diversity, and you talk about 1440 01:18:25,960 --> 01:18:28,120 Speaker 1: doing the right thing. Okay, this is an opportunity for 1441 01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:31,360 Speaker 1: you to put that instead of being lip service. Okay, 1442 01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:32,920 Speaker 1: put pay in the paper. Let's make it right. 1443 01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:36,720 Speaker 2: I didn't know any other way. I didn't know any 1444 01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:39,320 Speaker 2: other way. See when I heard Wanda Psyke say I 1445 01:18:39,400 --> 01:18:41,800 Speaker 2: support you, I just want somewhere else. I don't know 1446 01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:45,640 Speaker 2: how to do that, especially when it's wrong. If we 1447 01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:49,600 Speaker 2: keep just going somewhere else, we'll keep getting mistreated. But 1448 01:18:49,760 --> 01:18:52,800 Speaker 2: when you hear Amy Schumer and this was not something 1449 01:18:52,880 --> 01:18:55,639 Speaker 2: I found out they publicly said it was. It was pride. 1450 01:18:56,040 --> 01:18:58,800 Speaker 2: We paid Amy Shermer eleven millions. She came back and said, 1451 01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:01,600 Speaker 2: I'm not a legend icon, but I should get at 1452 01:19:01,680 --> 01:19:04,840 Speaker 2: least two more million, and they gave a thirteen million. Well, 1453 01:19:05,040 --> 01:19:08,519 Speaker 2: when Netflix says to me, you are a legend, you 1454 01:19:08,840 --> 01:19:11,800 Speaker 2: are an icon. When Robbie Praul says that, well, why 1455 01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:15,280 Speaker 2: is my legend and icon different than these people legend 1456 01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:18,040 Speaker 2: and icon? That's all? And when I say, we were 1457 01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:20,040 Speaker 2: able to come to the table and we were able 1458 01:19:20,080 --> 01:19:22,160 Speaker 2: to make it make sense, and we were able to 1459 01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:25,599 Speaker 2: do the special, and we appreciated them saying, listen, how 1460 01:19:25,640 --> 01:19:26,479 Speaker 2: can we work this out? 1461 01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:27,160 Speaker 3: Now? 1462 01:19:27,240 --> 01:19:31,400 Speaker 2: You know what happens with that. People were having callings 1463 01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:35,759 Speaker 2: when I said, this is not right. I was donky 1464 01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:38,760 Speaker 2: the other day. Remember that I was donkey of the day. 1465 01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:42,840 Speaker 2: The breakfast Nubs called me the donkey of the day. 1466 01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:46,559 Speaker 2: That's what they said. And they had a whole calling 1467 01:19:46,880 --> 01:19:48,480 Speaker 2: about how I was donkey. 1468 01:19:48,240 --> 01:19:48,680 Speaker 3: Of the day. 1469 01:19:49,200 --> 01:19:50,960 Speaker 2: But you didn't do the same thing when you found 1470 01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:53,840 Speaker 2: out was settled. Now all of a sudden, don't nobody 1471 01:19:53,840 --> 01:19:55,800 Speaker 2: know what a settlement is? I mean, well we don't 1472 01:19:55,840 --> 01:19:58,479 Speaker 2: even really. It was really really quick. We just want 1473 01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:01,680 Speaker 2: to throw it away. That Netflix special, It was just 1474 01:20:02,479 --> 01:20:05,320 Speaker 2: it was just like, no, guys, I gotta I gotta 1475 01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:08,719 Speaker 2: stand up because if not, that little girl coming behind 1476 01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:13,800 Speaker 2: me for real, right, that has that resume. I want 1477 01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:15,760 Speaker 2: to let her know you can fight, baby, right, you 1478 01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:18,200 Speaker 2: just don't have to say okay, you can stand. 1479 01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:20,839 Speaker 3: Would you be willing to do another Netix Netflix special? 1480 01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:24,639 Speaker 2: Yeah? I had a great time. I had a great time. 1481 01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:29,160 Speaker 2: I had a great time. Now for me, specials are specials, right, 1482 01:20:29,439 --> 01:20:33,160 Speaker 2: It's something special, right, so you know we'll see right. 1483 01:20:34,160 --> 01:20:37,680 Speaker 1: You know, I'm wanted to ask people that that I 1484 01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:41,160 Speaker 1: hear our community called you know, the community called me 1485 01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:42,920 Speaker 1: up and they call you Auntie? 1486 01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:43,320 Speaker 2: Yes? 1487 01:20:44,600 --> 01:20:46,560 Speaker 3: Do you wear that with a badger courage like I do? 1488 01:20:46,760 --> 01:20:50,600 Speaker 2: I wear it? That was such an honor for you 1489 01:20:50,840 --> 01:20:53,800 Speaker 2: babies to put Auntie on my name. Do y'all know 1490 01:20:53,880 --> 01:20:56,479 Speaker 2: how that made me feel? And I'm not the auntie 1491 01:20:56,479 --> 01:20:58,760 Speaker 2: that's gonna tell you the shit that you want to hear. 1492 01:20:59,120 --> 01:21:01,400 Speaker 2: I'm the auntie that's tell you what you need to hear. 1493 01:21:01,880 --> 01:21:04,400 Speaker 2: So for the things that I have said about our 1494 01:21:04,479 --> 01:21:08,000 Speaker 2: community and our babies and our sisters, I cannot back 1495 01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:11,120 Speaker 2: down because y'all gave me the title I didn't ask 1496 01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:13,479 Speaker 2: for it. But when they gave it to me, Shannon, 1497 01:21:13,880 --> 01:21:17,200 Speaker 2: that was the universe saying you now sit in that seat. Yep, 1498 01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:20,680 Speaker 2: you are now responsible. That's why I must speak out, 1499 01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:23,240 Speaker 2: and I must speak gladly, and I must say it 1500 01:21:23,320 --> 01:21:26,000 Speaker 2: to the top of my lungs, because God damn Fanny 1501 01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:28,200 Speaker 2: lou Hama didn't do it for me. God damn if 1502 01:21:28,240 --> 01:21:30,759 Speaker 2: he didn't do it for me, God damn if MIM's 1503 01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:32,640 Speaker 2: maybe didn't do it for me. The ones that came 1504 01:21:32,720 --> 01:21:35,280 Speaker 2: before us, and as a woman still alive named Sylvia 1505 01:21:35,400 --> 01:21:39,120 Speaker 2: Treymore Morrison, that woman got paid in a Coca Cola. 1506 01:21:40,680 --> 01:21:42,600 Speaker 2: That woman got paid in a Coca Cola at her 1507 01:21:42,680 --> 01:21:45,439 Speaker 2: next gig and five dollars. She was the first black 1508 01:21:45,479 --> 01:21:48,120 Speaker 2: woman to write for Saturday Night Live. But they have 1509 01:21:48,240 --> 01:21:52,240 Speaker 2: a listed as a production assistant and she's still alive. 1510 01:21:52,680 --> 01:21:55,800 Speaker 2: That's why I speak the way I speak, because I 1511 01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:58,120 Speaker 2: will not let them wash her out of history as 1512 01:21:58,200 --> 01:21:59,320 Speaker 2: if she never existed. 1513 01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:05,000 Speaker 3: Wow, dady, what what advice is somebody? 1514 01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:07,360 Speaker 1: If if a group of women were in here, it's like, 1515 01:22:08,680 --> 01:22:11,599 Speaker 1: come on, they talked to us, how this dating? 1516 01:22:12,320 --> 01:22:15,920 Speaker 3: Because this is is more its different now than when. 1517 01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:18,400 Speaker 2: You and now it's different, baby, I'm grateful. I'm not 1518 01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:19,200 Speaker 2: fifty six and. 1519 01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:23,160 Speaker 3: Trying, but you try to say what you try to say. 1520 01:22:23,280 --> 01:22:26,800 Speaker 2: I'm looking right at you. I ain't banging down. You 1521 01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:30,360 Speaker 2: better take your own ass and get somebody to love you. Now, 1522 01:22:30,400 --> 01:22:34,400 Speaker 2: I'm looking right tell y'all. Was Shannon Kneed. I tell 1523 01:22:34,439 --> 01:22:36,800 Speaker 2: you what my baby need. He need him old fat 1524 01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:40,280 Speaker 2: down who can bake good cakes, make some smother turkey wings, 1525 01:22:40,320 --> 01:22:43,280 Speaker 2: who gonna rub his feet at the night time, okay, 1526 01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:45,680 Speaker 2: and gonna have a sip of his cognac to make 1527 01:22:45,760 --> 01:22:47,840 Speaker 2: him feel better about himself when they come home at night. 1528 01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:50,000 Speaker 2: That's what Shannon need. You don't need no twenty six 1529 01:22:50,120 --> 01:22:52,160 Speaker 2: year old girl. You don't need no thirty six year 1530 01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:54,800 Speaker 2: old girl. This is your auntie talking to you. Take 1531 01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:56,680 Speaker 2: your old ass and get your old bitch out there 1532 01:22:56,920 --> 01:22:59,559 Speaker 2: that can love your old You're trying to hang out 1533 01:22:59,600 --> 01:23:01,760 Speaker 2: with these young bitches and you, yeah, you can't do it, 1534 01:23:01,880 --> 01:23:04,680 Speaker 2: saying it. You just can't do it. They want you 1535 01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:07,479 Speaker 2: to go for the fourth round. You're looking at her like, bitch, listen, 1536 01:23:07,520 --> 01:23:08,800 Speaker 2: I need you. You want some money to go to 1537 01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:11,360 Speaker 2: stop us because I can't go my further. But if 1538 01:23:11,400 --> 01:23:13,320 Speaker 2: you get your older girl when you get to that forthfron, 1539 01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:16,439 Speaker 2: she's gonna say, hold on, hold on, let me go 1540 01:23:16,520 --> 01:23:19,560 Speaker 2: get you some eggs and cheese and some toast with 1541 01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:21,680 Speaker 2: apple butter, because that's gonna get your energy back up. 1542 01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:24,840 Speaker 2: I'm talking right to you. Shit, So he thought I 1543 01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:28,720 Speaker 2: was gonna be scared. I'm talking. I know old gals. 1544 01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:31,160 Speaker 2: She'd be good to you. Her name is Eldora. Now 1545 01:23:31,240 --> 01:23:34,320 Speaker 2: when you know somebody named el door old school. Now, 1546 01:23:34,400 --> 01:23:37,960 Speaker 2: Miss Elladora told me to tell you. She said, I 1547 01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:42,000 Speaker 2: think he like red velvet. I say, miss Elladora, if 1548 01:23:42,040 --> 01:23:43,560 Speaker 2: you do like her, she said, you let him know 1549 01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:46,320 Speaker 2: I got something fun. Unless you don't have no teeth, 1550 01:23:46,400 --> 01:23:50,000 Speaker 2: come on, pick your glass up and the young girls 1551 01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:50,439 Speaker 2: will bite you. 1552 01:23:51,520 --> 01:23:56,439 Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, okay, I guess I gotta come on home, come. 1553 01:23:56,320 --> 01:23:58,599 Speaker 2: On home saying it. And y'all stop putting lines out 1554 01:23:58,640 --> 01:24:00,519 Speaker 2: about my brother, because I was in my feelings when 1555 01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:03,280 Speaker 2: y'all said he didn't date black women. Y'all stop that shit. 1556 01:24:03,920 --> 01:24:05,800 Speaker 2: You're stopping that he might throw a white women there 1557 01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:10,920 Speaker 2: every now and no, And it's okay, it's okay because 1558 01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:15,639 Speaker 2: sometimes there you we ain't in everything, we don't do everything. 1559 01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:18,840 Speaker 2: So sometimes uncle Shay, Shay need a spice of life. 1560 01:24:19,960 --> 01:24:21,960 Speaker 2: You need to go across the street. But he always 1561 01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:24,360 Speaker 2: gonna come back. That's all we said. And you open, Tyler, 1562 01:24:24,439 --> 01:24:28,519 Speaker 2: come on home, Come on home, Come on Homeme, come 1563 01:24:28,600 --> 01:24:28,960 Speaker 2: on home. 1564 01:24:29,280 --> 01:24:31,519 Speaker 1: Seerra says, a lot of women talk about Cereral's freer, 1565 01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:33,439 Speaker 1: but when the God says a good man, they don't 1566 01:24:33,479 --> 01:24:33,840 Speaker 1: want them. 1567 01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:34,920 Speaker 3: Is that true? 1568 01:24:35,920 --> 01:24:37,680 Speaker 2: I cannot speak for them. I can only speak for 1569 01:24:37,760 --> 01:24:40,400 Speaker 2: me because when the universe sent mine to me, baby. 1570 01:24:40,439 --> 01:24:42,400 Speaker 3: You was ready. You was ready, and he sent that 1571 01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:43,160 Speaker 3: man to me. 1572 01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:47,320 Speaker 2: Even this morning, I thank the universe for that man. 1573 01:24:47,439 --> 01:24:49,720 Speaker 2: Right there before I came on air with you, I 1574 01:24:49,880 --> 01:24:50,639 Speaker 2: was talking to him. 1575 01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:50,960 Speaker 4: I know. 1576 01:24:51,200 --> 01:24:53,880 Speaker 2: He said, Mama, you heard me talking. Say I say, hey, daddy, 1577 01:24:54,200 --> 01:24:58,720 Speaker 2: yeah I did. Because we've not been trained. We've not 1578 01:24:58,880 --> 01:25:02,280 Speaker 2: been conditioned to understand you. We've been trained to fight 1579 01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:04,800 Speaker 2: against you, right, we've been trained to go against you. 1580 01:25:05,160 --> 01:25:09,080 Speaker 2: We've watched our mamas, our grandmamas, our aunties speak ill 1581 01:25:09,200 --> 01:25:11,800 Speaker 2: of a black man. So now when a black man 1582 01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:14,639 Speaker 2: comes and they good, you're waiting for the bad. Because 1583 01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:17,120 Speaker 2: Grandmama told you black man one shit. Mama told you 1584 01:25:17,160 --> 01:25:19,599 Speaker 2: black one man shit. Your auntie said black man and shit. 1585 01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:21,479 Speaker 2: So all you have in your mind is black man 1586 01:25:21,520 --> 01:25:23,680 Speaker 2: ain't shitting. So when you get that beautiful black man, 1587 01:25:24,040 --> 01:25:26,920 Speaker 2: he's now got to say to you, erase everything they 1588 01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:28,400 Speaker 2: told you because I'm here. 1589 01:25:28,479 --> 01:25:30,840 Speaker 3: Or then you treated like that and then he goes 1590 01:25:30,880 --> 01:25:32,200 Speaker 3: and you talk about now you're mad. 1591 01:25:32,120 --> 01:25:35,160 Speaker 2: Because he don't want you the white girl, Shannon. Now, 1592 01:25:35,240 --> 01:25:39,439 Speaker 2: y'all start treating Shanning good. Okay, start treating them good. Now, 1593 01:25:39,479 --> 01:25:41,160 Speaker 2: shan and I got to catch my plane. Okay, this 1594 01:25:41,240 --> 01:25:42,680 Speaker 2: is last night unless you want to send me back 1595 01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:43,240 Speaker 2: on your jet. 1596 01:25:43,560 --> 01:25:45,479 Speaker 3: I wish I had one. I wish I had one, 1597 01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:46,479 Speaker 3: but I'm gonna get you out here on this. 1598 01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:47,360 Speaker 2: See what y'all did? 1599 01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:48,559 Speaker 3: You heard what Shaq saying? 1600 01:25:48,640 --> 01:25:51,760 Speaker 1: Shaq saying, say the ass Shaq. Should a man open 1601 01:25:51,880 --> 01:25:55,240 Speaker 1: up to a woman? Shaq said, no, he says, because 1602 01:25:55,320 --> 01:25:57,760 Speaker 1: if you do, they're gonna use it against you. He said, 1603 01:25:57,800 --> 01:26:00,280 Speaker 1: because if I break, if I crying about something, they 1604 01:26:00,360 --> 01:26:02,160 Speaker 1: gonna say the first time they get mad, they gonna say, 1605 01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:03,320 Speaker 1: see you crying cause your daddy? 1606 01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:04,840 Speaker 3: Say what he said? 1607 01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:06,400 Speaker 2: How do you take advice from a man who has 1608 01:26:06,439 --> 01:26:10,120 Speaker 2: no woman? And I love Shaq, but how do you 1609 01:26:10,160 --> 01:26:13,559 Speaker 2: take advice from my brother that has no one. Okay, 1610 01:26:14,439 --> 01:26:18,160 Speaker 2: if you have that person in your life and you say, listen, 1611 01:26:18,240 --> 01:26:21,080 Speaker 2: I'm dealing, I'm going through. Who else do you talk 1612 01:26:21,160 --> 01:26:23,800 Speaker 2: to at nighttime and your pillow talk? Who else do 1613 01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:25,960 Speaker 2: you share your life with? Who are you sharing with 1614 01:26:26,240 --> 01:26:28,759 Speaker 2: your life with? Shaq? Do you tell another man about 1615 01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:31,040 Speaker 2: your situation and does he make you feel better? 1616 01:26:31,320 --> 01:26:31,360 Speaker 3: Like? 1617 01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:34,320 Speaker 2: Who do you share your life with? So I don't 1618 01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:36,599 Speaker 2: agree with that at all. And I love my brother, 1619 01:26:36,840 --> 01:26:38,920 Speaker 2: but I don't agree with that. I think that makes 1620 01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:43,040 Speaker 2: the vision because if I gotta call my girl and 1621 01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:45,920 Speaker 2: I talk to my husband. When I heard Oprah say, 1622 01:26:46,080 --> 01:26:48,320 Speaker 2: and these are her words, not mine, she said, when 1623 01:26:48,320 --> 01:26:50,360 Speaker 2: I be stressed out and I be going through it 1624 01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:52,840 Speaker 2: after the show, I would come home and Gail could 1625 01:26:52,880 --> 01:26:55,920 Speaker 2: calm me down and put me to sleep. What's you say? 1626 01:26:57,040 --> 01:26:57,760 Speaker 3: What's that much? 1627 01:26:58,080 --> 01:26:58,360 Speaker 2: Okay? 1628 01:26:58,439 --> 01:27:02,960 Speaker 3: Then you said it, I'll get here. I would get 1629 01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:03,639 Speaker 3: open on the show. 1630 01:27:03,760 --> 01:27:06,800 Speaker 2: But those are her words. So I believe that partnership 1631 01:27:06,920 --> 01:27:09,519 Speaker 2: is partnership all the way around. When I leave this earth, 1632 01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:11,439 Speaker 2: there is nothing my husband will not know about me 1633 01:27:11,880 --> 01:27:12,880 Speaker 2: and the other way around. 1634 01:27:13,320 --> 01:27:15,280 Speaker 3: Did you know after your first two marriages you're gonna 1635 01:27:15,280 --> 01:27:16,360 Speaker 3: get married again, yes. 1636 01:27:16,760 --> 01:27:19,479 Speaker 2: Because my first two marriages were just marriages. Of My 1637 01:27:19,600 --> 01:27:22,320 Speaker 2: first marriage was you just couldn't have the milk without 1638 01:27:22,320 --> 01:27:24,400 Speaker 2: buying the cow, right, That was the first marriage. And 1639 01:27:24,479 --> 01:27:28,080 Speaker 2: we were boxes every We were Friday night fights. Okay, okay, 1640 01:27:28,360 --> 01:27:31,280 Speaker 2: we were. It wasn't domestic bolence. We was friday night fights. Okay. 1641 01:27:31,560 --> 01:27:35,799 Speaker 2: I took a l sometime, but sometime I didn't, okay, okay, okay, okay. 1642 01:27:36,040 --> 01:27:40,479 Speaker 2: The second one was I couldn't afford to pay my rent, right, 1643 01:27:40,840 --> 01:27:42,720 Speaker 2: and I didn't want to have a boyfriend. Right, So 1644 01:27:42,800 --> 01:27:44,120 Speaker 2: that's why I said, this is the first time I've 1645 01:27:44,120 --> 01:27:44,719 Speaker 2: really been married. 1646 01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:47,240 Speaker 1: Right, tell me the story that you wanted to share 1647 01:27:47,280 --> 01:27:49,519 Speaker 1: that nobody else knows that you was gonna share with us. 1648 01:27:51,080 --> 01:27:53,280 Speaker 2: You all ready for this, I'm ready for it. I 1649 01:27:53,400 --> 01:27:56,960 Speaker 2: want you to move in. That man that was sitting 1650 01:27:57,040 --> 01:27:59,920 Speaker 2: right here on this couch, his name is Cat william Yes, 1651 01:28:00,800 --> 01:28:05,960 Speaker 2: Cat Williams, and I have a relationship with fraternal twins. 1652 01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:12,040 Speaker 2: That's all. 1653 01:28:12,200 --> 01:28:12,439 Speaker 3: That's it. 1654 01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:18,720 Speaker 2: That's it. That is my twin, my spiritual fraternal non 1655 01:28:18,840 --> 01:28:23,000 Speaker 2: by logic brother. We're a twins, baby, Yes, we are. 1656 01:28:23,280 --> 01:28:25,800 Speaker 2: That was it, and that was all. Don't nobody know that. 1657 01:28:25,920 --> 01:28:27,840 Speaker 2: But you, Cat Williams, don't even knowice it. That's what 1658 01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:28,799 Speaker 2: makes it so beautiful. 1659 01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:32,120 Speaker 1: So Cat, I'm gonna call him. I'm gonna call him 1660 01:28:32,160 --> 01:28:34,439 Speaker 1: and say, hey, I met your sister for the bed person. 1661 01:28:34,479 --> 01:28:35,479 Speaker 2: I need you to tell him. 1662 01:28:37,280 --> 01:28:39,479 Speaker 3: Money. Do you want to promote anything? You got anything 1663 01:28:39,479 --> 01:28:40,240 Speaker 3: you want to promote that? 1664 01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:51,280 Speaker 2: Here's what I'll say. Just keep watching, Just keep watching. 1665 01:28:51,320 --> 01:28:55,639 Speaker 2: I'm promoting life. Just keep watching. And I love y'all 1666 01:28:55,680 --> 01:28:57,000 Speaker 2: for real, my babies. 1667 01:28:58,200 --> 01:29:02,360 Speaker 3: Thank you for watching. Monique. Ladies and gentlemen, we thank 1668 01:29:02,400 --> 01:29:04,200 Speaker 3: you so much. I really appreciate you. 1669 01:29:04,880 --> 01:29:08,880 Speaker 4: All my life and grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle, 1670 01:29:08,920 --> 01:29:12,160 Speaker 4: pay the price, Wanta Slice got to brow the dice, 1671 01:29:12,479 --> 01:29:14,840 Speaker 4: whap all my life. I've been grinding all my life, 1672 01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:19,519 Speaker 4: all my life and grinning all my life. Sacrifice, hustle, 1673 01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:22,840 Speaker 4: pay the price, Wanta Slice got to bro the dice, 1674 01:29:23,040 --> 01:29:24,160 Speaker 4: sap all my life. 1675 01:29:24,240 --> 01:29:25,519 Speaker 2: I've been grinding all my life.