Lee Daniels Apologizes to Mo’Nique After ‘Precious’ Feud: ‘I Am So Sorry for Hurting You’
usmagazine.comReconciled. Nearly seven years after Mo’Nique — full name Monique Angela Hicks — alleged that her Precious director, Lee Daniels, had “blackballed” her from the film industry, the pair are on much better terms.“[It took me] a long time to realize [this but] I am so sorry for hurting you in any way that I did,” Daniels, 62, told the comedian, 54, at her “Mo’Nique and Friends: April Fools Day with The Queen of Comedy” event on Friday, April 1, per Twitter footage. “Y’all, she was my best friend — my best friend.
Y’all think that Precious was just … That was God working through both of us.”“And we’re gonna f–king do it again,” he continued before the pair embraced. “I love you.
I love you.”The Grammy nominee brought out Daniels as a special guest during her Staten Island, New York, comedy show.“NO CAPTION NEEDED.
I LOVE US 4REAL❤️,” Mo’Nique gushed via Instagram on Friday, sharing a snap of the pair from the show.Mo’Nique previously starred in 2009’s Precious — directed and produced by Daniels — as the titular character’s mother.
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