There’s a million articles like this out. By black media at that. And in several interviews, Monique even admits they hate her husband and that they blackball her cause of him.
But yea. He was up in there just like all the other Hollywood managers and agents that we never hear one word about. Black and white.
Mo’Nique AND her husband got her ‘blackballed’ in Hollywood, former BET worker said
Sian Pierre used to work at BET as a content producer, when Mo’Nique was midst of her run as the network’s talk show host. He recalls a time in 2010 when he was working on the Oscar coverage for the network and had been asked to research the comedienne.
According to Pierre that’s when he began to uncover unsettling things about Mo’Nique and her husband-manager Sidney Hicks.
“And that’s when I started to learn about Mo’Nique, the business woman. She and her long-time husband/manager, Sidney Hicks, were becoming the talk of the industry because they allegedly asked for money to show up on carpets to support Precious. While she was not contractually obliged to show up to many of these carpets, most nominated actors “kissed the ring” to sweeten their hopes of a win, if not to continue hype around their nominated movie. But Mo’Nique and Sidney didn’t want to “play the game”, as she recently told The Hollywood Reporter. They wanted to get paid to play the game.
I couldn’t report on that, really. It wasn’t a fact I could prove, nor one I thought super important, given the weight of the
film itself.”
The creator of the blog Swagger New York vividly recalls an explosive phone call he got from Mo’s husband when he thought Pierre was showing the actress’ dress for the Oscars on TV before the awards show.
Oh god no. How dare a boss ask you to promote your own movie and role for free? Oh my god. The tapdancing. It’s not like my boss ever asked me to stay late even tho I’m salary and got no OT. Guess I was tap dancing. Never asked me to do something outside my job description with no raise. Guess I’m tapdancing. Didn’t give me a raise one year cause he couldn’t afford it but he living good. Guess I’m tapdancing.
Nah it’s called playing the game. Cause when I got arrested for weed. Or they needed to let people go. Or a promotion came up. Guess who was good every time, cause they know I put work in when I didn’t have to? The guy who didn’t bytch and complain and fight EVERY fight.
Realize what bridges to cross and what bridges to burn. Mo’Nique been on a crying tour for damn near 4 years crying about this shyt. I’m still missing the big tapdance they asked her to do
