D. L. Hughley Responds To Mo’Nique After She Brings Up His Daughter’s “Sexual Abuse Trauma” Into Their Ongoing Feud: “It Ends Today!”
D.L. Hughley has had enough. The entertainer shared a video this Tuesday where he responded to Mo’Nique who mentioned his daughter’s person incident during their ongoing feud.
As we previously reported the two comedians have been going at it over a contract dispute from a Detroit comedy show where Mo’Nique alleged that she was the headliner. After throwing a couple of jabs at each other, Monique decided to hit home. She recently brought up Hughley’s youngest daughter’s sexual assault incident from a family friend in an attempt to strike a nerve. Mo’Nique said at the time, “I find it funny that DL will call out ICE CUBE, KANYE, RIZZA ISLAM, ANGELA STANTON, MYSELF ETC., but he won’t call out the name of the person that violated his daughter. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS FOR THE PEOPLE WHO SAID I JUST NEED TO LET THINGS GO!”
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Mo’Nique was referring to the moment in 2015, when Hughley appeared on XM satellite radio’s Shade 45 with host Sway to discuss Bill Cosby’s rape allegations. While there, he seemingly admitted to not believing his daughter when she shared that his close friend sexually assaulted her. “The reason it hits home to me is because my youngest daughter said something happened to her, and because it was somebody I liked, I didn’t believe her. I’ll never get that back. I’m supposed to protect her. I’ll never get that back. She told her father something, and he didn’t do nothing about it because it was inconvenient,” he said at the time. Now that the situation has resurfaced again, because of Mo’Nique, D.L. Hughley is addressing it and he’s calling it “the final straw.”
Before Hughley latest video, his eldest daughter, Ryan Nicole Shepard blasted Mo’Nique as “poisonous” for bringing the personal incident into their feud. In a lengthy post she said,
“Hi @therealmoworldwide I’m Ryan Nicole Shepard (D.L. Hughley and LaDonna Hughley’s eldest daughter). You’ve now publicly disrespected my mother—who I love and care for very much—and my baby sister—who I love and care for very much to get back at my father—who I love, respect and care for very much. At this point, I feel like you are asking my family and myself to act out of character.
Out of all the things you could have legitimately said about my dad, if that’s the route you wanted to take, you chose to be deliberately mean and hurtful to two black women who have nothing to do with this conversation. Using my mama and my sister to show people my father’s character only shows how little mental stability, dignity, morality and respect you have not only for yourself but other black women.
You’re clearly two crayons short of the full box sis. You’re disgusting and you absolutely need to keep every single member of MY family’s name out of your poisonous mouth. Not because you can do us harm, you can’t. But because you are adding to the historical and systematic disrespect and trauma of other black women…who you claim to love. And for what? A check? You’re bringing up trauma for a concert line-up discrepancy? All you’ve done is proven that you have no moral compass. Nothing is too far in your quest to prove a point and I’m blessed that my parents raised children who have no idea how you could possibly go here.
We Hughleys are going to have a good ass day and a blessed life. We are healed. We are whole and we love each other fiercely and deeply. You can continue to live in that scorched earth kingdom of yours. Get some help ma’am, Fa Real. Oh, and if you want to have this conversation in person, I’ll happily give you my address 🥰”
Here’s Monique’s Explanation:
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