News about Lee Daniels

Mo'Nique doubles down on allegations that Oprah and Tyler Perry were 'blackballed' from Hollywood, claiming that Perry's AUDIO of her has notified her that it's 'difficult to work with.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 8, 2024
Mo'Nique is back on her allegations that Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry were 'blackballed' from Hollywood, and now she's taking aim at Tiffany Haddish over a past dig. During an exciting new interview with Shannon Sharpe on his Club Shay Shay podcast, the Academy Award-winning holder, 56, achieved so. Winfrey and Perry's feud goes back to 2009. She has stated previously that she refused to advertise their film Precious for 'free,' as well as omitting Perry, Winfrey, and director Lee Daniels from her 2010 Oscar address,' which culminated in her being 'blacklisted.'

Taraji P. Henson reunites with her disgraced Empire co-star Jussie Smollett as they shop together on New Year's Eve

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 31, 2023
Taraji P. Henson and her disgraced former Empire co-star Jussie Smollett returned to Ralphs in Hollywood on Sunday to shop for New Year's Eve groceries. In Lee Daniels and Danny Strong's urban soap opera, the 53-year-old Oscar nominee sang of Loretha "Cookie" Lyon, the mother of the 41-year-old hate crime hoaxer Jamal Lyon, who appeared on Fox from 2015-2020.

Mo'Nique reveals how she and her husband Sidney Hicks fell out of' their open marriage contract

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 9, 2023
In a recent interview, Mo'Nique opened up about her affair with husband Sidney Hicks. In a wide-ranging interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Precious actress, 55, revealed that although she and Hicks, her boss, openly, have since rethought their marriage. 'It's been a life of dreams.' I started to see a strength I had never seen before. At my worst, he loved me. I didn't want to sacrifice everything just for a lay, but I didn't want to sacrifice it for a lay. So I grew out of it,' she admitted.

Mother Claimed 'Possessed' Children 'Walked Up' Walls 'Backwards' -- And State Experts AGREED?!

perezhilton.com, August 19, 2022
A years-old story of a mother claiming her three children were possessed by some kind of demonic spirits is being made into a movie now — and police officials and medical experts who looked into the case AGREED with her!!SpOOky!! A decade ago, Latoya Ammons and her three children lived in Gary, Indiana. She voiced fear in 2011, describing her children's walking up walls, levitate in the air on their own, and talk in deep, threatening voices.