Throughout an interview with James R. Sanders from The Root, Mo’Nique informed the interviewer, “When Oprah Winfrey sits on the helm, and Taraji P. Henson says, ‘It’s an honor that we have been hand-picked for this film,’ Properly, in the event that they have been hand-picked for that film, these girls ought to have been taken care of from the second go.”
The 56-year-old Academy Award-winning actress believed Oprah did not exhaust all attainable efforts to assist Henson and the opposite black girls engaged on the 2023 musical.
“Every part was, ‘Didn’t I champion for y’all?’ I used to be like, ‘Cease it. You didn’t champion for these Black girls, for our sisters. What [she] did was, ‘We are able to deal with them like we at all times deal with them, who gon’ verify me boo? I’m Oprah Winfrey,’” Mo’Nigue defined.
“Oprah acquired caught. That is what occurred.”