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Apr, 23 2015 | Written by ATLien
Welp… it doesn’t look like this Mo’Nique ‘Blackballing’ situation is going away anytime soon (at least not if she can help it).

[FLASHBACK: He Say/She Say: Lee Daniels Weighs in on Mo’Nique Blackballing Claims + Mo’Nique Claps Back! (VIDEO)]

In the ongoing saga over whether the Academy Award winning actress was ever offered the coveted role of Cookie Lyon on the hit Fox series “Empire,” Mo’nique is back and this time… she’s pulled receipts!

[FLASHBACK: Gabborey Sidebe Chimes in on Mo’Nique Drama… ]

Mo’Nique recently appeared on the SiriusXM radio show “Sway in the morning,” where she told host Sway Calloway that last year, Daniels called her saying, “You got the role, but you know, there’s some technical stuff — I aint’ never done TV before, so you gotta go through the technical part.”

Mo’Nique then produced proof of their conversation… printed-out emails she said were sent to her by Daniels’ camp shortly after their conversation, asking her representatives to coordinate a screen test, before they later announced the deal was dead.

Watch video of the interview below + transcripts of the alleged emails…

VIDEO: Mo’Nique Shuts Down Rumors w/Receipts

The issue first arose earlier this year when Mo’Nique said in an interview that Daniels told her she was meant to play Cookie. That wasn’t the only project the actress said Daniels promised her. She also claimed that she had previously been in talks with Daniels to play the character that Oprah Winfrey ultimately portrayed in the critically acclaimed 2013 civil rights drama “The Butler.”

Below are some of the emails as read aloud by Sway:

Feb. 18, 2014
Good Afternoon,

Lee Daniels had a conversation with Mo’Nique about his new television pilot for Imagine TV/Fox called “Empire.” We would like to screen test her for the role of ‘Cookie.’ Please contact us with her television quotes, so that we can start a test, option, deal. We are tentatively looking at Monday, Feb 24 for the screen test.

Feb. 18, 2014

Hello I am following up on my previous e-mail regarding Lee Daniels‘ pilot and Mo’Nique’s television quotes. This is a time sensitive matter. Lee really does not want Mo’Nique to miss this opportunity.

March 3, 2014

Unfortunately it’s not going any further for Mo’Nique. Lee fought for her because he thought she would be great for the pilot but studio and network executives insisted on offering the role to Taraji. Thank you so much for providing us with her information. Sorry it didn’t work out. We’re all big fans of hers.

Mo’Nique told Sway she reached out to Daniels to clear things up after the brouhaha over the Cookie role erupted.

“We sent Lee an email and we said ‘Hey Lee, here are the emails because you may have forgotten about this communication. You may want to clear my name brother because it’s now right here.’ But we’ve not heard anything from him.”

She goes on to clarify why she’s still speaking on the issue, stating:

“When people were making it seem like I was just pulling something out the air, and I was trying to attack this brother, I’m like, ‘Guys, I have the emails, the communication, going back and forth, with Lee Daniels,’”

Mo’Nique continued, adding, “When he began to say things that just weren’t true, that’s when I had to say, ‘brother, I can’t allow you to do that.’”

Mo’Nique added that she would welcome a dialogue with Daniels on the matter.

Chile…. this situation gets messier and messier by the day.

What do you think of Mo’Nique’s latest ‘clap back’?
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In Atlanta Gossip,Featured,News Lee Daniels, Mo'nique
- Charlotte R. Lewis via Facebook
  
  Seems as tho Lee Daniels is a bit messy. He stay in some
- Clay Jemmott via Facebook
  
  This was stupid of Mo’Nique to start this mess in the first place. You hardly hear of things like this with other races in the film industry but we can’t leave well enough alone. What will this whole mess accomplish? If Mo would have just been cool maybe she ends up in Empire down the road now all she has shown Hollywood is that she will blow private shit up so don’t deal with her. Lee Daniels gonna still stay paid because he making them big money.
  
  versatile
  
  See. This is exactly what I’m talking about. Men stay winning today. They have backed women up and shut them up, slapped they azzez with lawsuits and took they money if they even thought of sayin sumn. And now they even takin their damn babies and making them pay court costs. Monique just happened to be the wrong gottdamn one. She aint lettin em run no game on her. She GOT the receipts Miss Daniels and to tell the truth she OUGHT to dammit use em. This man tried to slander her. She never would have said a damn thing had this fairy azz queen muthafucka had not told her she was Blackballed. It’s like who else did this man tell this to before he told her this shit? Monique HAD to address the public because she needed to know if this was true and WHY? Wouldn’t you want to know the truth? I saw that interview a month or so ago and her and Sidney didn’t leave a sone unturned. Daniels was on Don Lemon and did a fast talk around and in queen fashion flippantly told him "See you at the movies". Well of course we’re gonna watch all his shit cause it’s damn good. But he didn’t crush Monique and despite what men and defensive azz biotches who’ve been taught to defend them no matter what (Wendy,Phylicia Rashad,Sheryl Ralph etc.) can’t wait to see Monique’s own productions starting with Blackbird and I hope she does another stand up comedy show cause I KNOW she’s gonna ROAST these cockroach biotches which she used constraint in not doing to Wendy Witch this morning. Anyways, gotta go to bible study, prayin fo’ everyone. Have a nice azz night now.
  
  JENNY JONES!!!
  
  WELL IF SHE SPENT AS MUCH TIME PROMOTING HER MOVIE AS SHE DOES TRYING TO PROVE LEE IS A LIAR & THAT AN OFFER FOR A SCREEN TEST IS THE SAME AS BEING OFFERED THE PART THEN SHE PROBABLY WOULD BE SETTING HERSELF UP TO LET HER WORK DO THE TALKING INSTEAD OF HER BIG MOUTH. SHE FORGETS QUEENS RUN HOLLYWOOD, STICK TOGETHER & AREN’T THINKING OF HER WHICH IS WHY LEE IS UNBOTHERED. MONIQUE IS GOING TO BE THE ONLY PERSON TO GO FROM WINNING AN OSCAR TO BEING REJECTED FOR A HOODY AWARD NOMINATION. SMH!!!! GIRL STFU & PROMOTE YOUR MOVIE……JENNY JONES!!!!
  
  versatile
  
  Well for the results of her speaking up for herself and her career that YOU predict, we’ll just have to wait and see wonwon’t we? Monique isn’t making the rounds on these talk shows to bash Daniels. These talk shows REQUEST her as a guest for their own ratings. Monique has never been irrelevant and I know by the caliber of her talent as I’m sure that YOU do, that she’ll remain the outstanding actress that she’s always been. Wendy couldn’t wait to have her as guest, even after all the shade she’d thrown here and there. Monique accepted invite, graciously went through Wendy’s signature purpose and went on (even though Wendy’s body language showed total diss) to promote her movie Blackbird. Wendy does have a platform that’s nationally known and didn’t squander a moment more on Daniels than Wendy tried to side track her on. I applaud Monique’s superb composure. Andy Cohen requested her on WWHL same night and Mo’ again got free promo for her film on yet another hot platform even though Daniels was again Andy’s purpose of questioning. Monique not only gets to promote her film, she gets to promote the Monique that we all KNOW AND LOVED before this Daniels debacle. No one else, as we can see, will fight for her character other than herself, herhusband and family and those who have worked with her, her fans and God who knows what she is going through. I believe in her faith and I see the fruits of her perseverance in her struggle. I ddon’t know much of Daniels or his faith but I can see that he has been blessed with great creative talent which Monique never fails to acknowledge.
- Vee Gibson via Facebook
  
  He invited her for a screen test which is much different than offering her a role. Would she even be talking about this had Empire been a flop? I don’t understand why she felt she needed to prove anything. I really don’t think anyone cares as much as she may think. She needs to move on from this. Taraji IS Cookie..let it go. She’s only proving what they’ve been saying about her all along bc who’s gonna work with her after all of this foolishness?? She’s not hurting his pockets..she’s hurting her own. Smh
- Jennifer Love via Facebook
  
  Dammm smh
- Robin Woodall via Facebook
  
  I really need her to let this go. :/
- Adriane Joy Bishop Alexander via Facebook
  
  so you didnt get the job….get over it
- Evan E. W. Weathersby via Facebook
- Tiffany Clayton via Facebook
  
  All she’s doing is hurting herself and her career!!!!
  
  versatile
  
  Lee Daniels tried to "hurt a career".
- Tushanda Burton via Facebook
  
  I don’t get it !!! What’s her the point of doing this anyways ! To prove he lied ok if he did or didnt what’s next !!! It’s not a crime get over he . She making it bigger than it is !!!! Dam Mo I didn’t think u was petty !!!
  
  versatile
  
  If you had a job and did the best work for your employer, didn’t even ask for a raise but considered finding another job because your resume’ was sound and employer always complimented you on the GREAT work you’d done but suddenly told you he doubted anybody else would hire you because you wouldn’t "play by the rules and you were blackballed" just what would YOU do about that. Crawl under a rock and give up your career because you believed him without finding out for yourself? If you were INDEED an idiot, I guess tthat’s probably what you would do. Monique never asked that man for that Cookie roll. Since he was lying on her, and sshe’s still being the gracious preson she is without having to outright call him a liar because she has the emails AND phone records that should warrant an apology from him. He in turn has NOT said she was lying either. I wonder just WHY is that? You should check her out on rerun of Wendy tonight. Only Mo’ can explain this so second graders can understand.
  
  hmmm
  
  Is there proof that she has not been blackballed?
  The way I see it he was a friend to her and seemed to be the only one trying to get her roles. Those roles never developed into anythi g despite his numerous attends…..do the math.
  Now she messed up a relationship with friend who was trying to give her jobs, advice and constructive critism. To me she proved that her attitude did get her blackballed.
- Tina Jones via Facebook
  
  She was considered not offered the part there’s a big fucking difference !!!! Taraji is Cookie get over it
- Milkita Mccreight via Facebook
  
  Idk. She could never have played cookie. Plus she looks to old to be his wife. Maybe she can play his mother
- Dorothy Reynolds Westley via Facebook
  
  She is really acting childish!! No one cares!!!
- Eukeyia Posey-Jackson via Facebook
- Dirah NoAppologies Wilder via Facebook
  
  You can tell when someone has nothing going career rise . She is basking in the what could have been instead of looking for new projects. Attention seeking is so unattractive and in this case Mo’nique is atrocious ( figuratively) sad because I liked her back in the parkers day.
- Lisa Tate via Facebook
  
  She was offered the CHANCE to try out for the part. I don’t understand why she doesn’t understand the difference between reading for the part and actually being offered the part.
- Erica JuJu Mommie via Facebook
  
  She still don’t have the part it is what it is…get over it already bcuz he not hardly tripping off u & them emails
- Ashley MrsTucker via Facebook
  
  This is like submitting your application online and they saying they will consider you for an interview then get mad when they don’t call you for the interview and choose someone else
  
  m
  
  Exactly!
- Tim Wilson via Facebook
  
  Will someone let Mo’Nique know that winning an Oscar isn’t a means of getting more $, it opens up doors (roles) from the big studios she wouldn’t normally have access to. You know how many movies Denzel & Halle had to make that grossed $ to start getting 20mil a movie.
  
  versatile
  
  I guess $50ty thousand dollars seems like a LOT of money to you. In that case…I can understand where you’re coming from. And it would have been a huge amount were you Black actress in say…1940ty? You could have bought a two storied house in your designated Black neighborhood and maybe a used caddy.
- Jonelle Moore via Facebook
  
  Drop it already..NO ONE cares.
- Orlanda Welch via Facebook
  
  she needs to find a hobby
- Gwendolyn Gwendella Johnson via Facebook
  
  He has a co creator. And 4 executive producers he can say anything but they have to agree for they have to have the money. Jesus stop it.
- Tonya Hodo via Facebook
  
  Let it go dear! Geesh!!
- Tracey Wilton Taylor via Facebook
  
  The emails don’t prove she was offered the job
- Charlette Washington via Facebook
  
  Where’s her PR team? Someone really needs to shut her up. She’s acting like the mom from Fresh Prince of Bel Air now. Let it go and move on.
- Steve Rhone via Facebook
  
  Lee Daniels is a twat waffle anyway….I don’t even know all the details behind this but I know that nigga gay and he’s a dangling puppet for the powers that be…directing movies like the Butler and 12 years a slave….part of the gay illuminati agenda
  
  j-lo1089
  
  @Steve- wow all I am going to say is a mind is a terrible thing to waste- its called education you should try it
- MrsSheri Cross Smith via Facebook
  
  Bitter MUCH
- BAM!
  
  All this proves is Daniels actually didn’t blackball her…the industry did. He pushed for her to get the role, but network execs didn’t want anything to do with her. Looks like her issue should be with them, not Daniels. (but we all know she won’t speak about them or "confront" them) Also, since when did asking someone to audition mean they were promised the role??
  
  versatile
  
  What gives Lee the power to speak for the "industry"? He is not the only dierector/producer out here. And certainly not the only person that Monique have worked for. She was successful before him and she’s successful now.
- Johnnie LaRuth Mance via Facebook
  
  Didn’t sound like an offer to be, sounded like a chance to test for the part..
- Aaron Kelly Blackmon via Facebook
  
  These were receipts. This was more like something on your amazon wishlist.
- Troy Patrick Black via Facebook
  
  If Lee Daniels hadn’t went on CNN and broadcasted to the World that She didn’t Play the game … She wouldn’t have to defend herself to the media .. She is just clarifying the unjust lies being spread about her !!
  It is her prerogative to do so .. No one said ANYTHING about this so called Brother getting on cable news Laughing at her with Don Lemon saying if I’m a SELLOUT then I’m a SELLOUT meet me at the theater ??? So that tells you what kind oh Brother he is .. Then he says she was NEVER considered for the part. .. Well she has Personal emails that says otherwise !! Even if it was just to come and READ that shows INTEREST and consideration … So I applaud Monique for not staying silent and letting her name be dragged threw the Show Business Mud after she has been the business for Over a Decade !!! One Clown don’t stop no Show !! And Lee Daniels appearance on CNN should tell who the Clown is … So he had Empire which did well .. The Butler couldn’t get off the ground until He was Forced to Change the title , and then it was Snubbed and so was He 🙁
  
  versatile
  
  WOW! JUST WOW!!! I can’t believe a real man is on here! And it doesn’t matter about personal choice.Thought I was the only one who saw that. Then again, bet we weren’t the only ones. People choose to believe BS simply because they can.
  
  versatile
  
  Oh, and you’re so right about the Butler. I LOVE myself some Oprah but I have yet to get through one half hour of that film.
  
  Not_In_The_Crowd
  
  OMG! Mo should have just played the game now she is going to need theses interviews to stay existent. She was the one who announced she had been blackballed nobody forced that. Who asks to be paid to promote a film that could potentially bring you more money because you were filming a cancelled talk show. This is her fault.
  
  versatile
  
  LMAO! Monique aint’ askin’ nobody for shit! Everybody is askin’ HER for interviews. Andy Cohen had her on last night and of course she went. Every interview requested by networks are free publicity to promote BlackBird which I plan on seeing today. Monique never offers up anything about Lee. THEY ASK. And what she does is go through unfaultering synopsis and get back on topic which is her movie. Matter of fact she said last night that Taraji and Terrence were absolutely the best choices for Empire and celebrates their success and the many successes Daniels will have in his future because of his exceptional talent. I LOVE this lady! She can’t grow small minds because she lives in the real world. ShShe’s never been so trapped in any man’s game that she’d ever consider doing the things Sheryl Lee Ralph must have done to end up a never was loud mouth supporter of male dominated sick tricks With only a tv stint and broadway play to dust off and herald as total achievements. With all her campaigning, Daniels is laughing at her for thinking he appreciates the bad press she spews about Monique without knowing anything about their relationship. She still has exceptional industrustry HO tendencies, but a Queen aint’ feedin’ no stale fish.
  
  anotherNote
  
  So he went on TV and said she didn’t play the game. Was he wrong, because not playing the game got her to this point. Sometimes we have to realize that we are our own worst enemy.
  
  versatile
  
  Monique aint’ neva played to nobody’s tune but her own. I hope that she’ll be a trailblazer for all the insecure yet talented actresses that are made to feel they need to jump through unecessary hoops for crumbs. And especially while being Black. What has it gotten Sheryl Lee Ralph other than still sweeping up behind whom she deems as the "Mastahs" in an industry that long since has forgotten her. What was that waitress sitcom stint she did 30ty something years ago?…right.
- Yaminah Lucky Lefty McGee via Facebook
  
  Just stop.
- Apollo Cornelius via Facebook
- Destiny Khan via Facebook
  
  Offer. Not choice. There is a difference.
- Monica Fisher-Traylor via Facebook
  
  Get your dumb ass over it
- Frankie Brockington via Facebook
  
  I wish Mo’nique the best
- TruthWins!
  
  I always thought Monique was telling the truth.Monique need to realize some people are just going to be mean because they don’t care for people who speak their truth.WHAT THIS PROVES IS THAT LEE DANIELS IS A LIAR! Most people are not surprised by that!
- Betty Bailey via Facebook
  
  You could have gotten an offer but who cares u didn’t play the part some people hold on 2 stuff
  4 years thinking about what could have been but it didn’t give it a rest people
- Sasha James via Facebook
  
  So now what?
  
  Not_In_The_Crowd
  
  Right.
- Nigel Springs via Facebook
  
  I like her, but running her mouth finally got that ass in trouble! Somebody please give this woman a check! Her lively hood and marriage depends on it! She has a grown man to take care of. Smfh
- Candy West Howard via Facebook
  
  I Don’t like Monique she is a mean bitch I met her I dont know what her trip was but i booked her and got her ass together its not our fault you took fifty thousand dollars for a billion dollar flim I laugh at your kind you are a has been mean hateful ass.
- Jessica Burns via Facebook
  
  Troy Patrick Black everything you just said…
  Bloop!
- Shandell Smith via Facebook
  
  Over this…next
- Cassandra Bryant Johnson via Facebook
  
  It’s time to move on sweetie, I personally throght she would have been a choice for the role
- Chrissy
  
  This proves that she was asked to screen test, thats not an offer
- Fan
  
  Glad Monique was able to clear her name. However, it seems as though the studio execs were correct in choosing Taraji for the role. Empire’s ratings were through the roof.
  
  Visitor
  
  That’s how it always go! If Monique would have gotten the role, no one could have pictured anyone else! I think Lee Daniels is a liar and he dance when they say dance! People who don’t are called trouble makers!
  
  versatile
  
  Taraji got the role because she was absolutely the best choice. Just like Terence Howard was the best choice (which Taraji chose) for Lucious than Tyreese. Empire would have been good with Monique but certainly would have taken a different direction. What people aren’t getting is that Mo’ NEVER ASKED to play Cookie. The offer was just a part of conversations she proved shhe’d had with Lee because folks seem to think they didn’t have a working relationship.
- Terri Davis via Facebook
  
  But why is Mo holding on to this the show has happened and was successful without her into#the end
- Renita Lewis via Facebook
  
  Soooooo
- Yolanda Spencer-williams via Facebook
  
  Let it go!!! She blackballing herself at this point! Geesh nobody cares! #TarajiGotThat
- Buck Wells via Facebook
  
  So… sit
- Ebonee Gibson via Facebook
  
  No one cares! Let it go!!!
- Brenda Craig via Facebook
  
  Will someone please explain to Monique the difference between an invitation to do a screen test for a role and actually being offered a role.
- Gigi
  
  Ok, so there are two sides to every story hers is he offered her the role. I don’t get that from these emails. She was offered a screen test and that’s about it. So what’s the big deal. There is a BIG difference being offered a "ROLE" and "SCREEN TESTING, Motor mouth. If I were her, I would STFU she is speaking out against folks who are way more powerful than she is and they can TRULY blackball her.
- Juliann Thomas via Facebook
  
  There’s no way in Hell I’m going to believe he wanted her to play Cookie . The right actress is playing that part . Whatever their real beef is about will never know . She needs to move on an promote her new project .
- LeLe
  
  Monique is using the Daniels’ situation to promote her movie which is coming out soon and what better than to have some controversy to promote it.
- Kewanda Bocelli via Facebook
  
  Lee Daniels never offered Monique the role of Cookie on the show Empire, Daniels asked her to come in and read for the role. Monique’s email from Mr Daniels stated this.
- Danell Pack via Facebook
  
  just let it go !!!!
- Lovenia Marie via Facebook
  
  She needs to Let Go, Let God
- RahRah
  
  it sounds to me as though he looked out for his friend, re: the screen test, as he friend he did not want her to miss the opportunity, but apparently in the background other people are being considered. I interpreted the March 3 communication as a rush to do what they needed her to do to make sure she would be considered. Remember people, everyone competes for roles, some fit, some don’t. The thing is why can’t Mo let it go, does it really matter that Lee lied, everybody lies, she knows how this works, but because she wants to go down this path, she won’t be getting anymore work that way, she needs to produce, distribute, etc her own projects. Octavia Spencer it is all yours now. Why would she cause all this negative attention for Taraji, they are both black, and really praying for paying jobs.
- Barbara Singleton Outlaw via Facebook
  
  Let it go..b/4 you say are do something…that comes back you….
- XoXo
  
  Monique should really consider seeking therapy because she has issues. Anytime you’ve been molested, you should seek therapy. Otherwise, it will manifest itself within your daily interactions with people. I heard her on the radio this morning. She was more fixated on engaging in conversation about what is really a dead issue, then she was on her movie (of which I gave no plans to watch). She’s bitter.
- chile please
  
  So. What is the issue.
  
  Monique needs to sit down and shut up because no one cares. Studios do this all the time. And yes, Oprah would bring more money to the box office than Monique. And Monique is not likeable. She blackballed herself.
- Ashley Patrice Hendricks via Facebook
  
  Ok let it go!
- Keith Watkins via Facebook
  
  Whatever. She needs another Gig quick. Somebody in the Industry help Her please✌️
- Summer Withers via Facebook
  
  So what! Taraji is Cookie. Let it go. Work on reviving your career.
- Meka Berry via Facebook
  
  Stfu Mo Mo ….damn ur head still big AF so u have brain cells left….u had a chance to “read” that’s it… Those emails said nothing…it was a great olive branch extended to u but that’s it… No “Monique the only one we want no one else period she has that part” girl bye and FYI u are aggressive u got that Oscars thought ur ass didn’t have to do the work and now YOU and ALL ur kids suffering!!!!
- Yvette Ferrell Simmons via Facebook
- Leslie A. Parker via Facebook
  
  Who effin cares!!!! Find another role to play and move on with ya life!!!
- Chelle Maria via Facebook
  
  LET IT GO!!!
- Kevin F Robinson via Facebook
  
  She was called a lie. So she showed proof it had nothing to do with her being jealous.
  
  versatile
  
  Thank you. Seems like all the peeps posting tonight just came from movie "Frozen".
- Nicolle Royals via Facebook
  
  She’s clearly working hard to give us more material for her Life After episode because that is about all she’s going to yield from all these unnecessary interviews!!!
- Kim Louis via Facebook
  
  Pointless, to be honest. What’s done is DONE. The role went to somebody else so, she needs to humble herself and move ON.
- Audrey Smith via Facebook
  
  KMDT.
- Lisette Garvin via Facebook
  
  I knew she was telling the truth.
- Erica Grice via Facebook
- Michelle H. Morrison via Facebook
  
  That wasn’t an offer for the part….that was an offer to TRY OUT for the part. Screen test Boo Boo!
- Danielle McCrimmon via Facebook
  
  Time to let it go Mo. The show still is a success without you playing the role of Cookie
- De Anna Clark via Facebook
  
  Monique will never get her career back because she can’t keep her fat mouth shut.
- Ralph Hartsfield via Facebook
  
  Who did you piss of you got to be humble. Blackball does happen.
- Rich Gholston via Facebook
  
  Lee Daniels DID offer her the role. But TV is different than film as he told her that a film project she could just show up, but for network TV she would have to follow procedure(go through a reading) as FOX goes through specific agencies and network execs are in on it. They then after going with Taraji P. Henson they contacted Mo’nique with a notice that she didn’t get the role. Lee Daniels and his sidekick tried to save face with public perception by denial of ever talking to Monique, He has a creative mind and a great producer/director but Lee Daniels like Roman Polanski, Bill Cosby and other creatives, has demons that he needs to addtess . Why she ever brougjht it up, who knows. Why he lied about it and said she was blackballed? Who knows.
  
  But Mo maybe up for another Oscar AGAIN regardless for Blackbird.
  
  versatile
  
  AMEN!!! And what makes this even sweeter is it’s her OWN project. And I know she’ll make more than $50 thousand dollars for it. And if she has to fly to France to promote it, sshe’ll be more than happy to pay for room and flight herself.
- Tijuana Richardson via Facebook
  
  I agree Ash let it go already !!!
- SA Trott via Facebook
  
  Dang… she still talking about this…OMG!!!!! Move on girl.
- Dawn Hagan via Facebook
  
  Omg get over it…. Damn
- Melba Walker via Facebook
  
  Let it go.
- Lillie Garcia via Facebook
  
  Damn, still ranting! Get Your manager to get You roles, so that You stop wanting to prove that Cookie’s role was for You! Nope! Taraji is “Cookie”
- Lillie Garcia via Facebook
- Anne D Brannon via Facebook
- Kellie Martin via Facebook
  
  Dang! You keep talking and nobody will want to work with you! You said your piece months ago. We heard it. Now be quiet
  
  versatile
  
  They want ALL women to be QUIET! Accept the cards they’re dealt and just move the hell on. How easy can THAT be when someone of relevance has announced to you that not only are you irrelevant but you have been BLACKBALLED BY THE INDUSTRY? It’s now up to only you as how you will process this very relevant information. I LOVE the way she has chosen to pursue the answers as to WHY this "friend" in the industry, who she has made so much money for, would denegrate her in such a way that I’m sure he thought (because she’s a woman) she wouldn’t dare mention to anyone else. I wonder how he’ll go about ‘handling’ Terrence who has already shared with media that he demands an actual actors fee for next season. And of course tthere’s our queen of acting period, Miss Taraji P Henderson who I KNOW will be taking no prisoners when it comes to her compensation. Dude best know that even though he IS queen of the ball, what he THINKS is his house niggahs aint’ takin’ no sh*t when check time rolls around.
- Robin Wilcox via Facebook
  
  We Over it! Move on Mo!
- Charlene Murrill via Facebook
  
  This why no body wanna hire you your big ass mouth STFU! Smh
- JOO
  
  She’s getting ready for her role on Real Housewives of Atlanta – bookmark me. She will be on Season 8
- Arnita Batson via Facebook
  
  Stop trip pin and everyone just do their own stuff….
- Craig-Deion Williams via Facebook
  
  Empire on season two, and she’s STILL talking about this? He only asked her to screen test
  
  versatile
  
  Monique aint’ waitin’ for no EMPIRE. She graduated from TV. If and when we do see her on TV again, you best believe it will be her OWN directed and produced project. Sistahs are doin’ it for themselves.
- Monie Crenshaw via Facebook
  
  Who cares. …
- Shawn Allen via Facebook
  
  this bitch is annoying Craig-Deion
- Rlove GoGetta Brown via Facebook
  
  Monique, Suga…nobody cares. Please move on.
- Shannon Churchwell via Facebook
  
  No wonder the executives told him NOOOOOOOOOO!!! This is the thanks that he gets for pushing for her to get the role? She starts to run around and try to make him look bad? No wonder they did not want to use her. They picked right by picking Taraji. At least she knows when to speak and when to shut the fuck up. A screen test does not mean you have the job we are sending you the contracts. Mo’Nique is crazy and needs to stop smoking theat pipe. o
- Andre Payton via Facebook
  
  She’s black balling herself
- Christi Prettybrwn Raglin via Facebook
  
  She is still talking about this role even if she had got it the show probably would not have gotten passed the first week. Chick go sit down somewhere no one cares, its not relevant you didn’t get it move the f*** on, close your fat mouth because I see those pounds are getting picked back up Precious for real
- Khadija Jackson via Facebook
  
  I believe her, where has she been….my pt
- LaShon McKenzie Foster via Facebook
  
  I think for her, it all about her character. No one wants to be called a liar when you’re telling the truth.
- Ronda Hill via Facebook
  
  She only making a fuss to get our attention. ..now she has it. .O by the way; I have a new movie coming out Please go see it…thats what this I got beef with Lee Daniels is all about..lol
- Felisha Crooks-Sweet via Facebook
  
  Can We Please Let It Go!!
- Tookool
  
  It seems as though Lee had an agenda but the network felt differently and so he essentially left Mo’nique out in the cold. She is right for not letting him railroad her reputation. You gotta realize that she was the one who initially said that she was offered the role and then Lee came back and said, that she wasn’t basically calling her a liar. I would consider Mo’nique one of the few woman on standard in black Hollywood and will support her if she was doing commercials for Bluebell ice cream. Remember, her show, when she used it as a platform to promote up and coming artists, forgotten artists and on each show attempted to say something to lift US up. How quickly we forget when a show comes along that glorifies drug dealing, thug, promiscuous, greed and back stabbing behavior…SMH!
  
  versatile
  
  Yes, yes and HELL YES! Loved the "Monique Show"!!!
- Steven Jones via Facebook
  
  Taraji is a sex symbol and plays cookie well! Monique couldn’t play that well..The actress who got the part was the right one!!!! Let it go please!!!
- ME
  
  I believe Mo’Nique… go girl, don’t let them front you!!!! The holly-weird is real.
- Tamara La Salle Roberson via Facebook
  
  What’s her point? Crying about it is meaningless
- Miss Piggy’s lace front
  
  It’s a damn shame that all this women is trying to do is clear her name and you got people tellibg her to let it go. If someone lied on you,would you just let it go? Way too many people are blinded by this just because they love the show. The fact is Lee denied even testing her for the role. I tell you the way people live through these shows,actors, and singers is beyond disgusting.
- Nicole Ned via Facebook
- Sharon
  
  Monique stop!!! you are making matters worse. Those emails (to me) doesn’t suggest that YOU HAD THE ROLE…it comes across as if he was interested at the time but went with another candidate.This happens with everything in life…let it go and move on to big a better things. Don’t feed negativity anymore than you have. Trust me, it ain’t worth it.What God has for you, is yours!!
- Teila Lovinherbabies Lawson via Facebook
  
  Monique just stop already please!!!
- Anita Johnson via Facebook
  
  Get over it … NEXT !!!!!
- Micah Esera via Facebook
  
  So, judging by all these comments, a person has no right to defend their character when they are being publicly defamed? People have the right to defend themselves when they are being publicly persecuted. To sit back and do nothing is asinine. I don’t give a fuck what anybody says, she is doing the right thing for herself. Meanwhile, fucktards are online popping shit about someone else standing up for themselves. Fucking ridiculous. SMMFH
- Melvin Bolston via Facebook
  
  that’s right spend some of the money you got go buy God something for the church get a life dam
- Bennie Stevens via Facebook
  
  Oh please just let it go
- anotherNote
  
  Let this die already. Fix your feelings and move on. We all know that if its not in writing, it didn’t happen and the only thing I see is a screen test being offered. I don’t know how that turned into being offered the role. If that is the case the email should of stated, your Cookie in Empire, rehearsal starts Monday at 7. She is just sounding crazy now.
- versatile
  
  Thing is, after all the comments about Monique s Cookie. This in fact has nothing to do with Empire. It has to do with Lee Daniels TELLING MONIQUE SHE HAS BEEN BLACKBALLED IN THE INDUSTRY. The woman is doing whatever she can the RIGHT WAY in clearing her name for whoe er in the industry believes she is not worthy to hire. Even though she has yet to star in a bad project. And of all the haters supporting Daniel’s accusations…name one show/movie/comedic venture that you did not like? You qualify more than Daniels in judging everything you’ve been audience to as her talent is concerned.
  
  versatile
  
  Shadowboxer, Soul Plane, Phat Girls,Precious, The Parkers (wwhich is still in syndication) Queens of Comedy, Roscoe Jenkins and others that I can’t think of at the moment.
  
  versatile
  
  And I can’t forget "The Monique Show" where she revitalized and recognized so many of our Black talents that weren’t being given platforms. Old and new. Monique does not deserve this Black gauntlet she is going through and mostly to have an avenue to promote her own endeavors. Support this woman. She has proven time and again that she is worthy of the highest recognition.
- 2n2me
  
  Mo is OVER it! She is talking about her new movie where she gives a brilliant performance and her weight loss. If the talk shows invite her on to talk about the Empire issue, then thats what it is, she gets to promote her movie. She has never bashed Daniels. If your job tried to make you go somewhere for free most of us would have a fit. Why couldnt they pay for air and hotel and why is she wrong for saying, “no I aint got it, so I ain’t going”. I have mad respect for Mo.
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