In a new interview with Essence Magazine, Mona Scott Yong once again defends her reality shows and addresses the criticisms surrounding them.
Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
The showrunner, who has been on the entertainment circuit since the 1990s, has brought us hits like the Love & Hip Hop franchise as well as the short-lived Sorority Sisters. Though some say that her portrayal of Black women is anything but positive, Scott-Young refuses to apologize for her choices.
“I want us to be represented in every shape and form—the good, bad, ugly—because I feel only with full acceptance of everything that comes with us will we ever really embrace ourselves and love ourselves fully,” she said in the April issue of ESSENCE. “When we are still hiding and ashamed of a piece of who we are, we can never fully become who we are supposed to be.”
She’s clearly bothered that people don’t respect what’s she created for VH1. At some point, she’s just going to have to accept that and stop talking about it in every interview.
“When we are still hiding and ashamed of a piece of who we are, we can never fully become who we are supposed to be.”
Speak for yourself Mona. Maybe you see a little of yourself in Joseline Hernandez, but I sure don’t. LOL.
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Mona is trying too hard now. Not all black people can relate to the foolishness that is Love & Hip Hop. Now she has some other hustles I respect, but one of the biggest mistakes she ever made was these trashy reality shows. Now her legacy will always be questioned because she’s affiliated wth trash.
I doubt Mona even believes half the crap that comes out of her mouth about this topic. Mona has always been very classy, and business savvy. You couldn’t catch her throwing drinks in people’s faces and fighting at adult age like a fool. But she has to defend her coins by any means necessary so I guess.
Exactly and Yandy is her mini me. They ain’t ever gonna let cameras catch them being ratchet because they know it would mess up their business deals. But they will sit back and watch idiots do the most for a storyline knowing they would never be that desperate. That’s what Erica Mena was talking about too.
She’s insecure as f-ck and that’s hilarious as hell to me.
I can’t. Just no.
Chile…
I don’t know if Mona is trying convince us or herself with this BS she spitting. Mona is about money and power and all this other sh-t she is saying is for the birds.
lmao she is always defending those damn shows
Well she has to. I just wish she wouldn’t do it every interview.
Look I’m all about getting your paper but I hate that Mona likes to try to equate all black women to being birds just to make herself look less sleazy for creating this bs.
I just rolled my eyes so hard right now.