Mo’Nique vs. Lee Daniels is the Hollywood feud that refuses to let up. It began way back in 2015, when Mo’Nique claimed that Daniels, who directed her in the 2009 drama Precious, had blackballed her after her Oscar-winning turn in his film. The feud has continued simmering ever since then, with Mo’Nique additionally claiming that Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry had blacklisted her as well. In a new interview with TMZ, Daniels responded to his onetime star’s claims by saying that the comedian needed to “shut up.” Not one to leave a feud dangling, Mo’Nique struck back once again on Monday, issuing a playful response via Instagram.
“Lee Daniels, you shut up,” she said in a video message, laughing. This feud is now one step away from the “I know you are, but what am I” stage.
The comedian began her Instagram statement with her now trademark greeting “Hey, my loves,” then addressed the wild rumor that she was purportedly being offered a $10 million Netflix deal. “It’s a goddamn hoax,” she said. “That is not true, my babies.“ She capped the message by issuing her succinct response to Daniels. Concise!
The video was accompanied by the following caption: “NETFLIX DEAL. Get it straight from me. ‘Lee Daniels behave’ LOVE YALL FOR REAL.”
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Daniels made his remarks about Mo’Nique on Monday, telling TMZ that he was allied with his onetime leading lady for a long time. “I fought hard for her to get that job,” he said of her role as an abusive mother in Precious. Mo’Nique won a best-supporting-actress Oscar for her breakthrough performance.
Eventually, though, Daniels broke with Mo’Nique: “For her to bad-mouth myself and Tyler and Oprah is disrespectful and it’s wrong. She’s wrong. She’s out of pocket,” he said. And while Daniels said it breaks his heart to think that Mo’Nique believes she has been shunned by the industry, “no one blackballed her.”
“It ain’t even worth a conversation,” he continued. “She needs to shut up.” Now that she’s responded, the ball is back in Daniels’s court—again!
