Comedian and actress Mo’Nique has been very transparent of all the things that has transpired over the course of some years, with one of them being of the relationship with her oldest son, Shalon Jackson. She spoke of the nature of their relationship on Club Shay Shay where she said:
“Let time do that healing. It may heal it in time and it may not. And that’s something that we as parents have to say, ‘Listen, I’ve done what I can do. I’ve taken accountability for it. Now, it’s up to you,”
However, Jackson says that she gave a “false narrative” and that they are not close to reconciling. He took to his Tik Tok explaining his feelings and point of view.
“I would like to free her from having to continue telling that lie. Faith without work is dead, and neither one of us cares to put forth any effort to reconcile with the other. We are separate as she put it because she doesn’t care to be my mother any more than I care to be her son,” he shared.
He continued, “Neither one of us has had the desire to reach out to the other in a very long time and I don’t think either of us anticipates that feeling returning. I’m tired of hearing my mother’s truths news flash…standing in your truth doesn’t make you noble.”
He further says, “Responding this way allows me to say my peace uninterrupted. To all those wondering, why say something now? Call it a form of therapy,” Jackson says of his mother. “To be completely honest and fair, those were things that I was willing to get over. Nobody’s perfect, we’re all human. But, my mother showed a clear lack of humility, compassion, consideration when taking any level of accountability for those things. My mother does a fantastic job of acknowledging a lot of things, but she doesn’t take accountability very well and anything that she may take true accountability for is only at her convenience in my experience.”
