Steve Harvey adding his two cents to the ongoing feud between Mo’Nique and D.L. Hughley is the latest development to unfold in the incident.
Steve addressed being called a “coon” by the Baltimore native on his syndicated morning show on June 1.
“Let me just open by saying I could care less than a…about what you think about me because clearly, clearly, I’m not your problem,” he began. “And you know what? Anyone who knows me, who really knows me, can’t even make that statement. You’re trying to sound profound now? But really? Girl? Girl.”
The comedian added that he believed her management dropped the ball concerning Mo’Nique’s contract. And that she was not the headliner.
“Her management, whoever he is, simply stated, ‘I got this gig, you co-headline.’ I promise you that’s what was told. And that was incorrect information because D.L. put that contract online. He was 100 percent headlining. Co-headlining affects the money. If you’re co-headlining, you’re gonna get the same cash.”
Steve’s response isn’t the first time he’s added his two cents to an issue with the Queen of Comedy. Mo’Nique reminded him on his syndicated talk show that he didn’t have her back during the debacle with Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry.
“When you went on the air and said, ‘My sister burned too many bridges and there’s nothing I can do for her now,’ do you know how hurt I was,” she asked her “brother.”
Steve explained, “I felt you had done yourself a disservice by the way you chose to go about it,” Harvey said. “When you tell the truth, you have to deal with the repercussions of the truth. We Black out here. We can’t come out here and do it any kind of way we want to.”
During Mo’Nique’s segment at the KISS-FM Comedy Explosion in Detroit last month, the 54-year-old Academy Award winner recounted the advice that Steve and D.L. gave her regarding being blackballed by Hollywood’s Black elite.
She called the two men coons saying they told her to give the situation “to God.”
Mo’Nique admitted to taking the advice and then opting out of the high road after explaining that “God gave it right the f**k back.” She felt empowered to handle the situation herself.
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Initially, the comedienne warned the Detroit audience, who clapped in support, that she was angry that D.L. said that if he didn’t close the show, he wouldn’t perform. She aired out the entire situation during a 10-minute monologue before delving into her actual routine.
“Let me break it down for you, Detroit, because I would feel like less than a woman if I didn’t tell you know– what the f**k was going on here on this stage right now. So, if my energy is a little different, it’s because they got me f**ked up,” Mo’Nique began.
“The contract said that a b*tch is the headliner. The headliner. Mo’Nique is the headliner. That’s what I signed the f**k up for. I’m 30 years in this business, and I don’t open for nobody. The contract said headliner, but a b*tch n***a named D.L. Hughley said ‘I won’t perform if she [headlines].’”
Those words spawned the contract debate.
As the feud wages on, one thing is for sure– Mo’Nique isn’t a punk. Come through, Queen.
