Henson took to Instagram with a post dedicated to media mogul Oprah Winfrey, who produces the latest iteration of “The Color Purple,” in which she stars.
Taraji P. Henson is giving Oprah Winfrey her flowers. The star of “
As theGrio previously reported, Henson’s emotional moment in the Radio Andy interview took the internet by storm as she broke down mistruths regarding pay in Hollywood. “I hear people go, ‘You work a lot,’” she told King. “I have to. The math ain’t mathing. When you start working a lot, you know you have a team. Big bills come with what we do, we don’t do this alone … there’s a whole entire team behind us [and] they have to get paid.”
“I am only human and it seems every time I do something and I break another glass ceiling, when it’s time to renegotiate I am at the bottom again like I never did what I just did,” Henson said, “and I’m tired.”
Her Instagram post helps to clarify Henson’s thoughts and relationship to Winfrey following the SiriusXM chat, as some on social media assumed the actress was referring to Winfrey, the original 1985 film’s Sofia, when describing her experience negotiating.
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