Mo’Nique and Steve Reflect on Twenty Years of Comedy and Friendship

Nobody can check you like a friend. Steve Harvey welcomed his longtime friend Mo’Nique to The Steve Harvey Show earlier this weekand the two got into a passionate conversation about the state of Mo’s career.

Harvey was honest about his feelings toward the strategy Mo’Nique used to sound off about various gripes in Hollywood. He admitted that he wished he had intervened sooner.

“I probably should’ve called you as soon as…,” he said. “When I did call you, I listened to you. I began telling you at the very beginning I think we going about this the wrong way now we keep saying stuff in the interim that keeps just making it worse Hollywood know you talented.”

The two then continued their friendly discussion, with Harvey saying that he’d like Mo’Nique to apologize to Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey and others that she’s bad-mouthed in the industry. But he’d also like Daniels and Winfrey to apologize to Mo’Nique; and he’d help facilitate those talks.

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