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In a recent interview with Vulture, Mo’Nique didn’t hold back and had some choice words about Whoopi Goldberg.

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“She’s always been the help,” the Oscar winner said about her fellow Oscar winner.

See, her comments were related to the last time she was in the hot seat The View discussing her career and 2018 Netflix boycott for offering a measly 500K for her own stand-up special. Apparently, Whoopi told her she could have “schooled” the veteran comedian on how to understand contracts.

“When you have a woman saying, ‘I could have schooled you,’ someone would say, ‘What was the schooling going to be?’ When I look at this woman you say is our icon and our legend — she is,” Mo’Nique stressed.

“But, how many things has Whoopi Goldberg executive produced? Whoopi Goldberg has always been the help, and I say that humbly. So what is it that you’re going to school me on? I’ve been doing it for almost 30 years.”

(FACT CHECK: Vanity Fair pointed out that Goldberg has actually produced 30 projects, but we digress.)

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In addition, the actress brought up some of Whoopi’s own problematic past.

“This is a woman who says ‘I could have schooled you,’ and this is a woman who accepted Ted Danson in blackface, and our community praises this woman,” she added.

“So often times, we do it to ourselves. But, I just can’t. Understand, I love my sister. However, when you know you’re being fed the wrong food, you must say, ‘I can’t chew this, y’all.’”

Mo also shared some details about a behind the scenes conversation she had with Whoopi, expressing to The View co-host that she hoped her boycott would help the future queens in comedy who should know to demand their worth. According to her, Whoopi wasn’t having that either.

“In that moment I knew I was looking at a woman who didn’t give a damn about me,” Mo’Nique said.

“And if she’s telling me, ‘Stop worrying about that little girl who not here yet,’ well, she forgot about the ones that came before her who were worried about her.”

Welp!

Mo wasn’t done though.

In that same interview she kept it 100 about Tyler Perry. Remember, last summer she released a secret recording of the director and Precious executive producer telling her she had been mistreated by those in the industry and how her career stalled after winning the Academy Award.

Caught on tape, Perry claimed he was going to speak up for her. Yet, let Mo tell it, that never happened.

“Here’s the thing: he’s never done it,” Mo’Nique said.

“We had given Tyler Perry a year to keep his word. Brother, you said you were going to come out and say something. Well, you never came out and said anything. And what was disheartening was people who were saying, ‘How could you tape him?’ But, they weren’t saying, ‘Oh my God, did you hear what he said? He said she wasn’t wrong.’”

She continued, saying, “We didn’t accept any money.”

Neither Whoopi or Tyler have responded to Mo’Nique’s comments.

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Mo’Nique Drags Whoopi Goldberg: She’s ‘Always Been The Help’  was originally published on hellobeautiful.com