Mo’Nique’s Golden Gift: “It’s Now Time To Tell. And It’s Okay.”

One of the most memorable — and important — moments of lasts night’s Golden Globe Awards was the first award of the night, given to Mo’Nique for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. In Mo’Nique’s heartfelt and moving speech she thanked her husband and Precious director Lee Daniels — but she ended it by addressing a very specific audience: abuse victims. In Precious, Mo’Nique plays an abusive mother to Gabourey Sidibe‘s downtrodden, browbeaten, abused title character. “I celebrate this award with every person that’s ever been touched,” said Mo’Nique as she raised her Golden Globe. “It’s now time to tell. And it’s okay.”

As Trish Kinney noted on the Huffington Post: “Survivors of sexual abuse will tell you that the abuse itself is hideous and destructive leaving deep emotional scars that take years to process. The film delves into a secondary but equally difficult piece of the dynamic which is the betrayal of the victim by family members other than the abuser.” Kinney wrote this piece before the Globes, and called it “Mo’Nique Gives a Precious Gift to Abuse Survivors” — at last night’s Golden Globes, Mo’Nique went one step further with that gift, by confronting the shame that goes hand in hand with sexual abuse, and sending a message to abuse survivors who may have been watching that it wasn’t their fault, and they weren’t alone. Pretty powerful stuff. Video below.

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Mo’Nique Gives a Precious Gift to Abuse Survivors [HuffPo]