Mo’Nique Calls Out Whoopi Goldberg in Open Letter: Unlike Tyler Perry, “Are You Willing to Do What’s Right?”

Nearly a decade after Academy Award-winning comediennes Mo’Nique and Whoopi Goldberg made headlines for their very public fallout aboard an episode of ‘The View,’ the former is making headlines again for airing out her feelings about the matter in a surprise open letter.

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Posted to her official Instagram account on Monday (March 9), Mo (born Monique Hicks) penned the lengthy statement to call out Goldberg for her failure to show empathy during their 2018 spat despite seemingly demonstrating such to a co-host on the talk show recently.

“I’m encouraged to send you this open letter after recently seeing the video of our last conversation on your show,” Hicks wrote. “The tone of the comments today seems different from the energy eight years ago, with many people now agreeing with my sentiment about not working for people or entities I don’t owe anything to. I wonder, have your feelings changed since that time?”

Revisiting their 2018 conversation, Mo revealed she discovered new information from Whoopi’s past that sounded similar to the very plight she slammed her fellow comic for complaining about.

For context, Mo’Nique and Goldberg clashed on ‘The View‘ after the latter was critical about ‘The Parkers‘ actress refusal to promote the 2009 film ‘Precious.’

“I was also intrigued to learn that in 1993 there was an attempt to sue you regarding ‘Theodore Rex,’ because it was alleged that you had made a verbal commitment to the film. Your defense was that you never actually committed. You can imagine how confused I was when I discovered this, especially since when I explained that my only contractual obligation was to Lee Daniels, it didn’t sway your opinion enough to stop you from saying you could have ‘schooled’ me on doing what they expected from me,” Hicks relayed.

Whoopi wasn’t the only one from Mo’s past getting reprimanded in the letter, however.

“People like Tyler Perry refused to take responsibility, while I had to take responsibility for refusing to sign up for an act of slavery against my will,” she added. “The worst part is that another woman chastised me on a platform meant to empower women.”

All-in-all, Mo’nique seemed inquisitive about Whoopi’s current stance on the matter of self-advocacy and if it’s changed since their headline-making, 2018 encounter.

”My question is: Is your stance truly about standing up against wrong or is it about standing with the ‘right people’?,” she asked before saying, “…are you willing to do what’s right for the little girls coming behind us, or is your position still ‘F’ the little girl coming behind us? I look forward to finding out. Because I was the little girl coming behind you.”

At writing, Goldberg has not directly responded; read Mo’Nique’s full letter above.

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