Oprah Winfrey Responds to Taraji P. Henson's Viral Comments About Production Concerns (Exclusive) 

She’s telling the truth though but ppl who think like Monique lack intelligence.

Lol she said both she wasn’t in charge with that. 1) Warner brothers is responsible 2) the rumours where made up based on people thinking they can read people 3) Her interview with Oprah comes out on Friday lol 4) they are still very much friends lol 5) and it was about black actresses in GENERAL!

Danielle Brooks accidentally spilled the beans about them not being fed as well as them not having their own dressing rooms or trailers and having to share a single "space".....whatever that is. And how Taraji fought for them all in order for things to me fixed. Also Taraji told New Times about how when she showed up to the filming location they gave her rental keys and you'd her to drive herself yo and from work. She went on to explain that it's industry standards to have security and or a driver. And that you don't just drive yourself after being on set for possibly 16 hours. It becomes a liability issue.

​@@justacutie5201Regular people drive themselves after a long shift. 😂😂 I think it's bs complaining when real people are underpaid for real jobs. To me it's diva behavior, she needs to be humble about her fame and success. Her team doesn't seem to do their job if she demands more, she should fire her team then but stop complaining. Seems ungrateful to me.

​@@justacutie5201after all the issues mentioned were brought up, how were they resolved?

​@@wonderwomman5135A $100 million movie budget should automatically have the basic necessities. Would you work nearly 24 hours without having food?

I agree with you. There was a reason why Taraji spoke about LOW PAY on Color P. Oprah is wrong for not advocating 4 the cast.

Yall need to stop complaining about Oprah jealous because she's right

Oprah was in T place she wouldnt be happy either she doesn't support anyone but her bank account. ​@antonetteiagreeithinksomeo3453

"O" is a succesful business person who is a MULTI-billionaire....for a reason.@@Ladyroniwiththegoldchains

You’re saying people are distracted but you aren’t taking about health, quality of life, the environment etc. you’re a clown

You ain’t see her do nothing! You sitting here stirring the pot, Messy Boots!! Y’all some slowish people! Get some counseling, cu what you saw is what YOU struggle with.

Some folks can detect negative energy e- mmediately and steer clear of it so it does not contaminate their life space. That's clearly what Oprah did.

I would have done the same thing the way she's out there making me look bad in front of the world!

No you didn't you were not there. You are a narcissist and will make any moment made to be miserable. Lots of people want black women to fail and will spread many rumors.

she moved over to give the cast the spotlight

I hear you

I am with you on this!

Yeah, the age of information, with so many different interpretations in so many opinions and so many truths, it's just overwhelming. If my work ever becomes well known, I will commit to being a hermit. Having fame has a vicious after effect.🫣

@@Iamjanel I hear you 💯 💯 it's a tough position

I. COULDN’T. AGREE. WITH. YOU. MORE. It’s just TOO MUCH. One minute, the world loves Oprah, the next minute, she ain’t sh*t. Since WHEN did Oprah become a villain?! I hate this foolishness is detracting from the beauty of this film.

Mr. Frazier was @ the Beverly Mall lol, & I FROZE & became INSTANTLY tongue tied. He was gracious enough to walk slowly by to give me a chance to inquire for a autograph, but I couldn't even speak! I did this many years ago running into Mr. Charlton Helton in Bev Hills on Wilshire inside the same building (high security everywhere too!) law firm as Attorney Allred.

Black don’t crack

WHAT???????????????? SERIOUSLY?????????????????

Black don't crack! He's very handsome!

Black don't crack! He's very handsome!

She's full of shit. Same woman who turned a blind eye to the rape claims from her school in Africa. I don't expect her fan base to hold her accountable. That's how that older generation is...

That saying don’t mean nothing!! Just like people can run their mouths, she has the right to lay it to rest. You would defend yourself Pinocchio

Blame Maui on Mother Nature.... Stop blaming black women.

​@@greenearthblueskies8556Oprah is a crook!

@@variousJnames Nope... That's trump... ask the courts. 🤣

HELLO!! (sips ☕)

Indeed!

...and it's spelled O-P-R-A-H... cause she's ALWAYS in the middle of it.

Taraji played poker with her career. Now, nobody will hire her because of a Trust issue. She tanked the film prior to its opening.

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿YES!!! She needs to Stop lying!!! 🤦🏾‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

Stupid

They are speaking out against the studio you dingbat!!! The studio makes the decision, not Oprah! The producer, the director, the actors are all salaried!!! Everything is negotiated with the studio with the actor's respective teams (agents/managers), NOT with Oprah. Taraji, Fanny, and Danielle have ALL said, when they needed something, they picked up the phone and called Oprah and it was handled. That's how it works. I've watched almost every interview with the cast and never once have they said anything negative towards Oprah. In fact its been nothing but positivity. It's sad how people have twisted Taraji's words against Oprah.

​@@Gifted504you are jealous

​@@toukdee😂😂😂😂

What does it smell like? A wet dog? A month-old hamburger that fell behind the sofa? Trump's diaper?

Just like Maui!!!!

She's black and successfull what do you expect. Black ppl like to bring each down

Exactly.. That's all I'm saying..eeeeeevvverybody that deals with her CAN'T be wrong. Most are just too afraid to say anything because of the power she has... But the ones who do say something are written off and ignored . But after a while people just have to start connecting the dots and accepting it for what it is. It's her moment to own up to her behavior and the way that she's been treating people. Instead again she's just brushing people off... But you got to think, People aren't going to make this up and go against Oprah... There's absolutely no benefit in it for them unless it really happened.

You just can't please all the people all the time. At least Oprah gave them work.

and especially over food and cars. Oprah should've have been on top of Warner Bros to have everything 🎯. So, somethings not right.

If Oprah ain't a grifting (Hawaii) She's a thrifting.(She doesn't pay well). Oprah is a gatekeeping piece of shit.

Oprah clone

no more new scripts.... david lean said hollywood is doomed with remakes

Thank you People just need hâte and drama

Sorry but no. Oprah has been doing this for years. She knows how the game works and should have made it mandatory that any project she works on pays the actors fairly and well. Not sure how this slipped past her radar 🤔

Oprah likes to support rapists, she is not a good person, she steps on people and ruins careers when people do not or cannot work for free. She is just evil. And all that nonsense with asking money for fires, how only her house was left intact, then that terrible story about her school in Africa. The justice system should protect the world from her.

Yep

Apparently it was needed, because people are always keeping up crap. Crabs in a barrel.

Oprah's actions are bad. Look up her relationship to Maui and the complaints against her.

Taraji said many time and put it in writing she doesn’t have an issue with Oprah

@@KatieRostsWigsVevo Maui loves her. She and the Rock provided help for thousands of people

No haters like you are. Warner Bros pay actors not Oprah so yall can fkoff

There is always a RU-vid conspiracy person like yourself coming for people like Oprah. You believe in something you have no evidence of, you believe it because you saw a video on RU-vid or TikTok that’s crazy not everything on social media is real people get paid to put those conspiracy videos out.

Cause Oprah is a liar.

Especially if she heard the rumors she should have stood besides her....

....and then open your coat once you're standing on the outside of the group 🤔

Cos she wants the attentions to be on the Cast members. You’re in your 50s, apply some wisdom here.

​@ayoayo7730 Not so, the body language tells it all. Check out the magazine covers and other photos, I've never seen her on the end. She didn't even acknowledge Taraji, she just simply moved away I'm just saying....if your cold I would shield my body with other bodies. Again...I'm just saying

AMEN 👎

ABSOLUTELY 💯

She soooo fake, and now you trying to make it look like you did nothing wrong, do the math, Opera, you are fake

Can't stand her fake azz, never could.

Right 💯❤

I love your set!!!!

That's the new T-Shirt everybody's wearing: "Oprah Sucks" - I want one! I bet Oprah is the one who's selling them!

@@jortalportal2834lol…..you’re probably right!

Facts

AMEN 🙏

So what was done in Maui??

Oprah old and petty. And so is Gail. Birds of a feather...

Taraji should have brought it up when she signed the contract with Warner Bros. She is crying over spilled milk. She should have asked HER team to negotiate a better deal BEFORE she signed on a dotted line

@@alicegauteng2358 exactly you, she knew exactly what she was getting. And if her 'team' couldnt do better then thats that. Studios are always fickle about black projects to begin with, and they do make their expected earnings but the ongoing idea is that they wont. And for some time its been a given that the business of film production has always been shady, but today level of greed had more than doubled down on Studios screwing over production personnel pay. The truth of the matter is, compensation has always been unfair. The business of filmmaking involves a team of people, each of whom has a specific purpose crucial to achieving and final product, so why should a director or actor be payed multiples more than the rest of the team, when they are all needed to create an end product. what is a writer without a director without actors without production crew without post production and that that put the project together. Our problem is that we idolize those deemed the heads of the project when in fact all the parties are required and all deserve their fair share.

👁 FLOATERS SHE'S ALWAYS HAD THAT ABILITY

Because Oprah knows no one is going to stand up for black actress. She knows she has her white audience to back her up. They are the ones who made her famous and rich. If you paid attention to her talk show audience when she was in Chicago, they would upper class white women.

Cause she knew it was coming.😂😂

Wasn't she on epstine islands? You know the one with all of those minors on it that where being assulted?? I'm wondering wasn't she? Let me know.

🗣Repent Israelites all praise to the most high YAHAWAH AND HIS SON YAHAWASHI🤴🏽🦁👑🐑🔥🛸. The so called black man, Latino, and Native Americans are the Israelites. Yahawah chosen people. That are scattered in all nations through our fathers. Making them Israelite foreigners/Scattered sheep/The multitude Deuteronomy 28:68 “And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you 👆🏾Transatlantic slave trade/ Egypt spiritually means house of bondage/Captive.(Revelation 11:7)mm Yahawashi speaking: Matthew 15:24 “But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Deuteronomy 7:6 “For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. Isaiah 14:1 “For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. Isaiah 14:2 “And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors 2 Esdras 6:9 “For Esau is the end of the world, and Jacob is the beginning of it that followeth.”

She rubbin her hair and ish😂 frontin stunntin

Just hate her darling, we're not gonna stop you

My point exactly

She meant that everyone looked “angry” because it was freezing. Stand outside on the snow with a small coat and I assure you won’t be smiling ear to ear. I am not standing up for Oprah, I think she is the devil

She’s speaking out because she’s guilty lol

Exactly, yet the weirdos in these comments swear she's perfect. Must be some Wypipo and boules.

"O" like the Obamas, has become a very polarizing figure. One either loves or detests her. There no longer seems to be any in-between.

When you need to eat, you don’t do anything for free. How dare a billionaire tell people what they should do in their career. 🙄 This is another reason why I’m not supporting the film.

Ask who still does . Lol...

I have no issue with a woman who has done nothing to me. I lived in Chicago and saw what both Oprah did for schools that was on the verge of closing in black neighborhoods, programs, domestic violence shelters and opportunities for the youth. Propaganda being fed to ill-informed wilfully ignorant people is why there will always be DIVISION in the black community.

This is really what is wrong with America. White people have to employ you, but when it is the other way around, you have an issue. Go figure.

Steadman was a hologram

They were at the golden globes together.

Taraji did herself no favors by tanking "The Color Purple" while on a promotional tour. There is a time and place to state grievances.....@@alvinobi1650

@@alvinobi1650I watched it taraji p Henson didn’t look like she wanted to be there next too Oprah even Monique has spoken up against Oprah and Whoopi Goldberg

😡😡😡

Wht a greedy evil woman.

What happened in Maui

@@sierradanielleAK It was something along the lines of the fires, using her money for other things and her buying land.

Exactly

Exactly. Lies detected!

FOH... Taraji ain't no fkn baby.. She's 53, and responsible for her own career choices.

Oprah is doing damage control!!

😂 indeed. Arrogant woman.... n more 👎

No eye contact, the stuttering, her main comment is all over the place until the last thing she said.

Guilty of what? Ask the executives at Warner Brothers not to mention the actors negotiated their own contracts, not Oprah. Stop looking for scapegoats. Oprah doesn't owe anyone anything..

You clearly saw what you wanted to see. The man with the mic loves Oprah and supported everything she said. He even said it.

@@BeBlessed70 they are trying to pin Warner Brother’s responsibility on Oprah.

@@MichelleMichelle203 Exactly. And I'm not sure why. 😕

@@BeBlessed70 🤔different people on the smear campaign have different agendas

​@@BeBlessed70That's B.S. Oprah is the executive producer. The executive producer is the HBIC, plus Oprah said she was on set nearly day. She knew what was going on

​@@MichelleMichelle203Oprah was on set nearly every day. She was very hands on with the production and you mean to tell me she didn't know her employees were starving Don't be so naive

Why should Oprah have to give her money up when these celebrity got money

And yes Oprah is a billionaire that is her money

Horrible movie then and now !!!!!!!!!!!!! It is felling to produce the money it took to make another Oprah Winfrey down trotting movie about Freedmen/Foundation Black Americans, only tethers and plantation sambos and plantation mammies and white supremacist love this piece of shit movie !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blessings 🙏✨

I hate needless remakes, too. I loved the A&E "Pride and Prejudice" miniseries, and I'm miffed that a theater movie version was made after with Kiera Knightley. And don't get me started on the remade "Chocolate Factory" movie with Johnny Depp.

Oprah made the original perfect

It wasn't nominated cause that was the Emmys... Which are for television

Saw the original "color Purple "when it came out . Approx. 1985? Wonderful movie..so well done 😊

@@eileenhudson4934 In spite of the favorable comments from people who saw and loved the movie (me included), Spielberg was vilified for portraying black men in a negative light. And the LGBT community thought he should have played up the lesbian relationship between Celie and Shug.

It was the time and place to address. Folks found the time and place to lie and say Taraji was talking about what Oprah paid! Ain’t no ploy! Y’all crazy

Oprah is a joke

You need help

oh course she dont want to be black ball from hollywood you see her call her name out on here to warn her

Well Taraji said it herself Oprah was helpful and praised her. So where's the lie?

Then Taraji needs to broaden her act. Black centered shows like "Empire" appeal to a limited audience. For one to make the big bucks, they need to be watched (exposed) to more people. Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Cuba Gooding Junior, Phylicia Rashad, and others are/were liked by broad based audiences.

I agree

Nope... You're just a fool's fool. 😂

Know you fool by Tarija she runs her mouth to much in movies

No because you no Oprah right love you Oprah let the haters hate

​@@koosieboo9disagree

✔️✔️✔️

Agreed 👍🏾

Taraji NEVER mentioned OPRAH!!! ONLY YOU GUYS DID. Oprah is only one producer.

She addressed this issue because it was timely. As for the Monique, I agree that she should have done a better job of addressing their issue. As for Weinstein, who gives a fuk if they had a friendship. Do they have one now? Did she know that he was abusing these women? Do you have any proof?

Anyone that is in her business needs to try to be be as forthcoming as possible. She has failed. She has has held people accountable, while she has not. Ask Tony Braxton how Oprah treated her. Ask Dave Chapelle.

Dude you and Oprah are both a simp. She still is cancelled the tarij thing is lame, but it’s about all the other things she has done to ruin her reputation. Oprah is cancelled

Why did you need to hear this

Why did you need to hear this?! 😂😂😂😂

You get what you negotiate for. T was not considered for the part of Suge, she fought to get that role and took what the money they offered. Can't cry about it afterwards.

​@@adonis8289wtf. She fought for the roll? Why. Who was better for it? U do realize that in 1970s blk ppl couodnt get scholarships. It was illegal. Taraji waa born in the 1970s. To talk like everything's normal and it's no issue is racist. 2024. We calln out everybody

She already has one 👎ppl there dnt want her there ...

Why should she! when most of Hawaiian don’t like blck ppl. Oops

@@KatharinaK117 people there love her. She and the Rock have helped thousands of people

You are a liar! Taraji never once criticized Oprah by name and even said so on her IG page.

@@JasS-hu6cf 🐑

Well we’re talking about people’s livelihoods so what they see is what’s happening to them and others. Let’s not be ignorant and act like this isn’t an issue for Black women everywhere. It’s not a trigger when it’s an everyday reality 😒

And you don't know what you see either

Are you joking? Oprah sucks

It must be a burden setting up so many actresses with a known predator named harvey weinstein on multiple occasions.

@@brandonnetzley1906 who did she set up with Weinstein?

Sounds like Taraji might be a complainer but just from Fantasia’s butt kissing of Oprah and this black man, you can see how much power Oprah has and how she could get you blackballed

Taraji seems to have a very high opinion of herself. She is no longer on Television on a weekly basis and her roles in movies that appeal to a limited audience are never going to earn her a lot of money or advance her into the mainstream with her attitude.

Oprah got money

History lesson. Oprah was NEVER received well by the black community as they felt that she catered to the white audience in the 80's. We never gave her a chance before we sat in judgment and didn't watch her show. We were too busy watching Jerry Springer and Maury Povich promoting TRASH television. Oprah became rich and famous because of the WHITE viewers supporting the Oprah Winfrey Show and the sponsors recognized that and as a smart businesswoman, she NEGOTIATED deals that made her rich and that's how she became a millionaire and subsequently a billionaire..Oprah has donated over $300 million to children in Africa, saved schools in Urban Chicago and Mississippi, countless charities for children of color amongst other philanthropy. Oprah being a black woman doesn't owe ANYONE anything because she has worked to earn everything that she has amassed..

"O" is doing damage control. CBS produces "Entertainment Tonight" and used to distribute her show and employs her bestie, Gayle King.

Lol exactly

Ikr

🙄🙄🙄

The movie flopped,🤣🤣🤣 people know the truth about Oprah and they really don’t care no more

@@dave46459🤣🤣🤣

What is it about?

@0.17 Oprah "People are saying I don't support Taraji, Taraji will tell you herself. I have been the greatest champion of this FILM" - LMAOOO clearly she don't support shit

She's just covering her ass now. Katt Williams started to exposed them already.

😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆

That is so good. When I first read your post - I thought you said, "Creepo"

Facts!

Then leave her, get a life and be busy

And I see most people missed where she basically says she is in support of 'everyone meeting the rising of their own lives'. Translates to yes they were paid unfairly and even tho she covered food and etc behind the scenes she wasn't coming out of her pockets- as far as the actresses pay went. She's saying that's their fight not hers 👎🏽🧐🤔

Warner Bros signs the checks, not Oprah. She had nothing to do with how much any of them got paid.

Stop with the bullshit. She said the salaries had nothing to do with her and they don't. If you know how this works, you wouldn't make stupid comments.

@@ladawnenglish9402 were you listening with your third eye? You made up a whole script of what you want Oprah to say. She ain’t say none of what you typed!! Why? Taraji money beef ain’t with Oprah, Slowee! 🤷🏾‍♀️

​@@ladawnenglish9402you do not know what you're talking about you are jealous

Ummm, what else was the host going to do? Black man wanna keep his job, duh.

That black man and Fantasia kissing too much booty. He didn’t watch it 😅

No that's not what he did. He looked out for himself and knew what he needed to do to keep the gig. What? Was he gonna call out Oprah? He was paid to be the Team Oprah guy and allow Oprah be the "bigger" one in all of this. BS! Gale did what Gale does, defends Oprah. Oprah is an over achiever and has made a space for herself. She is Hollywood like that and has a role as to how to keep black folks in their place because "Warner Brothers", in this space needs hur, (Oprah) to be the House N-Word and keep the complaints under a wrap because black actors and actresses are never going to earn what white stars make as that would be too much like right and fair. And White supremacy don't play like that and sho don't pay like that either. Ask the Viola Davis aka the Black Meryl Streep. Please don't get it twisted. Taraji P. Henson is still saying, "There is a problem here". In her performance of Katherine Johnson, one of the three brilliant African American women at NASA, the 20th Century Fox's Hidden Figures, the 2016 historical drama pointed out that, "There is a problem here", same problem in real life in 2023, INEQUALITY! While there was no place for the black women to pee in the building where Katherine Johnson worked in. The irony is that was a minor problem that had to be resolved in 1966 so that she could effectively be in proximity to do the calculations for the trajectories for several missions for NASA including the first American into space. INEQUALITY is still an unresolved problem impacting Black people in America. Please let this sink and stop diminishing the role of Hollywood handlers who are used to silence those who speak up for themselves as being "difficult". And the, "They should just be grateful to be here" part Oprah plays because she was given a shot to be successful as well as a role. Please don't get it twisted. I believe Mo'Nique! Just sayin...

Taraji was talking about "O", Tyler Perry, and Lee Daniels just like Monique did.

*sigh. Oprah interviewed all the female leads. Fantasia and Danielle's episode will air soon.

People don't understand business. She was ONE producer on the movie. Warner Brothers PAID the actors..🙄

If Taraji fid not like the pay, why accept the role. Her people worked with the studio on that. Oprah is not the person who paid them.

❤😂❤Lmao...make it a $1.5 Million so Taraji can pay her lawyer, stylist and manager. (Warner Brothers you wrong)

Stop with the LIE