D.L. Hughley is no longer acknowledging Mo’Nique following a monthlong feud between the comics that stemmed from him getting top billing over her at a May 28 concert in Detroit.
Hughley, 59, was asked by TMZ in Los Angeles on Wednesday about Mo’Nique, 54, and said he no longer will address the rift with her.
‘You only get so many breaths in your life and I refuse to use one more on somebody like that,’ Hughley said.
The latest: D.L. Hughley, 59, is no longer acknowledging Mo’Nique, 54, following a monthlong feud between the comics that stemmed from him getting top billing over her at a May 28 concert in Detroit. He was snapped onstage earlier this year in New Jersey
He added of Mo’Nique, ‘I don’t even know who you talking about, I don’t even know who you talking about … I don’t even know who it is, I don’t even know who you’re talking about.’
Mo’Nique earlier this month apologized for remarks she made in reference to an alleged sexual assault on Hughley’s daughter; she was subsequently publicly criticized via social media by his eldest daughter, Ryan Nicole Shepard.
While performing at the Duke Energy Center of Performing Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina June 19, she said, ‘I like to consider myself a woman of honor, so, I have to do something right now publicly that I did publicly and when I f*** it up, I’ve got to fix it up. So, I’m going to take care of that right now – to D.L. Hughley’s family, to I want to publicly apologize if I hurt anyone’s feelings.
‘I want to publicly apologize to his wife, his babies, if I hurt their feelings because that was never my … intention. I never meant to hurt their feelings.’
Mo’Nique earlier this month apologized for remarks she made in reference to an alleged sexual assault on Hughley’s daughter
Hughley said of Mo’Nique, ‘You only get so many breaths in your life and I refuse to use one more on somebody like that’
After he was asked about the apology Wednesday, Hughley said, ‘I haven’t heard anything, I don’t listen to that – not at all.
‘I can tell you this: I work, my family’s intact, I just came from doing a benefit for the people that are affected by the tragedy in Buffalo. I go home and see my granddaughter.’
Hughley said he has ‘no words or breath for somebody like that,’ and he draws the line at attacks on his family.
The rift between the two initially began when Mo’Nique ripped Hughley onstage during The Comedy Explosion show, an event they both performed in, at the Fox Theater in Detroit on May 28.
In her set at, Mo’Nique said that she specifically signed onto the show as the headline act, and accused Hughley of threatening not to perform if he had to go on before her.
‘The contract – the motherf***ing contract says that a b**** is the headliner – the headliner – let me say it again, the headliner,’ Mo’Nique said. ‘That’s what the motherf***ing contract says, Mo’Nique is to be the last motherf***ing person on the … stage, she is the headliner. That’s what I signed the f*** up for, I’m 30-plus years in this and motherf***ing I don’t open for’ nobody.
The rift between the two began when Mo’Nique ripped Hughley onstage during The Comedy Explosion show, an event they both performed in, at the Fox Theater in Detroit on May 28
Hughley, in response, shared a frame of Mo’Nique from the 2009 movie Precious in an Instagram post addressing her tirade
She continued: ‘The contract said the headliner, the contract said the headliner, the contract said the headliner, but … D.L. Hughley turned into a b**** and said, “I won’t perform if she does that … I won’t go out if she does that”‘ … so when I leave this motherf***er, the headliner has left.’
Mo’Nique noted that she has a ‘history’ with Hughley, saying he has past publicly criticized her professionally with no provocation.
In response, Hughley cited Mo’Nique’s past show business feuds, naming a litany of people and companies who Mo’Nique has past expressed issues with in illustrating her history of professional grievances.
‘Oprah was the problem, Tyler Perry was the problem, Charlamagne was the problem, Steve Harvey was the problem, Lee Daniels was the problem, Netflix was the problem… Now it’s MY turn,’ Hughley said. ‘At some point it can’t be everyone else, IT’S YOU!! Lesson learned … I wonder who’s next …’
Hughley noted Mo’Nique’s Oscar-winning performance in the 2009 movie Precious, in which she played the mercurial, abusive and manipulative mother of the titular character.
‘Apparently, the role you played in PRECIOUS turned out to be an autobiography,’ he said.