Lee Daniels Heaps All the Praise on Damon Dash, but Says Mo'Nique 'Needs to Shut Up'

When Damon Dash publicly confronted Lee Daniels at a Diana Ross concert last week over an alleged $2 million loan, you might have thought to yourself, โ€œMoโ€™Nique was right.โ€ Suggested Reading Plot Twist: MAGA Drags Ex-Rep. Jamaal Bowman for N-Word Claims And They Are … Right Why Nelly Needs to Finally Admit the Real Reason…

When Damon Dash publicly confronted Lee Daniels at a Diana Ross concert last week over an alleged $2 million loan, you might have thought to yourself, โ€œMoโ€™Nique was right.โ€

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Moโ€™Nique has accused the director, whom she worked with on Precious, of blackballing her after her Academy Award win, admonishing her for not โ€œplaying the gameโ€ of campaigning for her role during Oscar season. Her allegations that Daniels was unsavory and disloyal echoed in his latest encounter with Dash, who brought a camera crew to record his contentious conversation with the director.

Now, Daniels has commented on both relationships, saying they couldnโ€™t be more different from each other.

Speaking to TMZโ€™s Raquel Harper in a video released this weekend, Daniels claims the money Dash gave him was an investment (Dashโ€™s $5 million lawsuit claims otherwise).

โ€œIt was an investment, but I looked him in the eyes, and I told him that you would get your investment back,โ€ Daniels told Harper. โ€œThis black man gave me money when nobody [would], not Disney, not Sony, not TriStar, not Paramount, not Warner Bros.โ€

Daniels vowed to pay back Dashโ€™s investment, saying, โ€œIโ€™m going to work out something for him to get it because I am in a position now to get it to him.โ€

โ€œI donโ€™t know if I would be successful if it werenโ€™t for him,โ€ he added.

But his tune changed altogether on the subject of Moโ€™Nique, saying that the comedian and actress โ€œneeds to shut up.โ€

โ€œPeople are confusing the Damon Dash [situation], with the Moโ€™Nique [situation]โ€ he said.

Daniels stressed that he โ€œfought hard for herโ€ to get the role and that Monโ€™Nique was paid the money she was owed for the budget he had. But he called her criticism of him disrespectful, wrong, and โ€œout of pocket.โ€

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โ€œI respect her [as an] actor because she gave me her soul. But I gave her my soul, and for that, she was given the Golden Globe and the Academy Award,โ€ said Daniels, in a statement that could be construed as him trying to take credit for both her performance and her accolades.

That certainly appears to be how Harper took it.

โ€œBlack girl magic, at the time, which you gave herโ€ she concurred.

โ€œNo one blackballed her. Moโ€™nique blackballed [herself] and for her to continue to talk about Oprah and myself and Tyler [Perry] is disrespectful,โ€ he said, adding that the intimacy they experienced working together on set was like โ€œmaking love without having sex.โ€

Dash has already responded to Danielsโ€™ comments, sharing a copy of the video on his Instagram page with the caption, โ€œWeโ€™re good bro. Appreciate the honesty.โ€

โ€œTime to move forward. Letโ€™s forget the bubble gum shit and get the money,โ€ he added.

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