Taraji P Henson Fired Her ENTIRE TEAM …. After They Fumbled The ‘Cookie Lyon’ From Empire Bag!!

Taraji P. Henson, who has been talking out about racial pay disparity in Hollywood, reveals that she fired her whole staff for not capitalizing on the success of her well-liked Cookie Lyons character on the hit FIX present Empire.

Taraji starred as Cookie Lyon, the spouse of former drug vendor turned hip-hop mogul, Lucious Lyon, performed by Terrence Howard, on all six seasons of the Fox drama.

However when Taraji was requested what her finest enterprise transfer had been, in current interview with the SAG-AFTRA Basis, the actress slammed her outdated administration staff for not following up on the success of the fan-favorite character w

“Firing everybody after Cookie,” she stated. “Everybody had to f—kin’ go. Where is my deal? Where’s my commercial? Cookie was at the top of the fashion game. Where is my endorsement? What did you have set up for after this? That’s why you all haven’t seen me in so long. They had nothing set up.”

Taraji continued, saying, “All they wanted was another Cookie show, and I said, ‘I’ll do it, but it has to be right. The people deserve, she’s too beloved for y’all to f—k it up.’ And so, when they didn’t get it right, I was like, ‘Well, that’s it,’ and they had nothing else. ‘You’re all f—kin’ fired.”

Final week, throughout an interview with Gayle King on SiriusXM to advertise her most up-to-date movie The Shade Purple, Taraji broke down in tears as she talked about getting underpaid for her work and virtually quitting the business altogether.

“I’m just tired of working so hard, being gracious at what I do, getting paid a fraction of the cost,” Henson stated after taking a protracted pause and breaking down. “I’m tired of hearing my sisters say the same thing over and over. You get tired. I hear people go, ‘You work a lot.’ I have to. The math ain’t math-ing. And you start working a lot, you have a team. Big bills come with what we do. We don’t do this alone. It’s a whole team behind us. They have to get paid.”

“And when you start working a lot, you have a team,” she continued. “Big bills come with what we do. We don’t do this alone. The fact that we’re up here, there’s a whole entire team behind us. They have to get paid. So when you hear someone saying, ‘Oh, such and such made $10 million,’ no, that didn’t make it to their account. Know that off the top, Uncle Sam is getting 50%, OK? So, do the math; now we have $5 million.”

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