The Breakfast Club - Tiffany Haddish and Jason Lee NOT expecting a baby! + Mo’Nique admits her ego played a role in issue with her son.

Episode Date: August 20, 2025

Mo’Nique goes on TS Madison and calls out Oprah, Tyler Perry, Tiffany Haddish and also comes to terms with her ego getting in the way of her relationship with her son. Additionally, Tiffany Haddish is in fact, not co-parenting with Jason Lee.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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to Lauren the Rosa, and this is the latest with Lauren the Rosa. Now, this is your daily dig on all things, pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, today we are getting on into some things. We're going to get right on into the latest because we got a lot to talk about. We have some updates. So Tiffany Haddish and Jason Lee, Hollywood Unlocked founder, are not having a baby. I rushed to get that out and to say that because I've been trying to figure this out for

it's been weeks. So let me just back on up, right? August 4th, Tiffany Haddish and Jason Lee posted these photos to their Instagram. It was a photo of Tiffany and Jason. There was a baby in Tiffany Hadish's hand. And of course, all of us, and Jason's there, they're small. Jason's holding a baby stroller. So we're all looking like, what is this giving right now?

Like, what is happening? Like, did y'all go adopt a kid or have a surrogate, have a kid? Now, the only reason to be fair, because Jason Lee is a very openly gay man. So for those who don't know him, to be fair, the only reason why we even assumed this is because a little minute ago, Jason Lee and Tiffany Haddish were having a conversation and they were talking about Tiffany Haddish wanting to have a baby and having the baby with Jason Lee. Let's take a listen to that.

You said you would give me a kid. Are you serious about that? Yeah. We could have a kid. I wanted to talk to you about the cost of, because I said I wanted to do it the old-fashioned way. You said no. So I wanted to talk to you about the cost.

The old-fashioned one. What is the old-fax? It's been so long. You know, we got to do the hoochie-cucci. Wait, I don't like that word. Okay. We got to do the pound-pound. Okay, wait. So here's the deal. My penis and I had an agreement, like, back when I was 19, that we were vacating that world. And since then, we've like, it's sort of like my mother. We just packed up and left and never came back. Right. So that wasn't funny, right?

It is kind of funny But, hey mom But no, seriously Yeah, after I walked away from vagina It was like that STD's Pain, sorrows, shooting, violence drugs Like, I don't want to be around none of that anymore Yeah, but I still want a kid.

Now y'all could tell he's openly gay men, right? Very openly gay men, okay? Ain't nothing swinging back over this way at all about Jason Lee. So when people, when the picture was posted, it naturally people thought like, okay, they did it. They either got a surrogate, they either adopted because it's no way. And I mean not a way in the devil's hell that Jason Lee put anything of his inside of her to make a baby.

Also, too, we've been seeing Tiffany Haddish and she hasn't been pregnant. So that also was a thing. But yes, so this photo had everybody. going. When I tell you, I literally had people texting me like, Lauren, what's up? And I'm like, what do you mean? Like, everything cool? What do you mean? Is Jason Lee pregnant? And I'm like, is Jason Lee pregnant? You mean, is Tiffany Haddish? Did Tiffany Haddish have a baby by Jason Lee? Yeah, what's going on? And then also, too, we never talked about it. So I didn't talk about it here on the latest with Lauren the Rosa. We didn't talk about it on the

We were going to one day, but I think we just didn't get to it. I had text Jason when the photo dropped, and I'm like, yo, what's up? What's going on here? And I sent the photo. All he did was send me back a bottle. And I'm like, what does that mean? He didn't say anything else. And then I was leaving Atlanta.

I went and spoke at the podcast summit in Atlanta. Shout out to the podcast summit in Deshans for bringing me. down. I had an amazing time. It was so well put together. But I was there. Jason Lee also spoke there as well, too. And when we were leaving flying back to New York, Jason Lee was on my flight. We actually were like in the same row. So we just sat next to each other. And I was asking him then, I'm like, what's going on? You're going to tell me what's up or not? And he's like, I don't talk about kids. I don't discuss kids. Child, Jason Lee and Tiffany Haddish was on Jimmy Kimmel. they talked about kids

and they are not having one nor do they have one right now that we know of let's take a listen what did you think of this whole baby fiasco I don't know the whole world has lost their mind over this beautiful baby we just took a picture with a baby

and then and then that went crazy so now we got a god baby we do yeah I went ahead and made it our god baby okay great you're daddy oh thank you this is the first time both of us

being former foster kids is that we're actually selecting to choose a baby that wasn't ours. But that's why adoption's important. Yeah, adoption is important. It is. It is very important. Jason, the offer still is on the table if you want to make a real baby together.

Okay, we'll have a meeting about. Like our baby. Yeah, we'll have a meeting about. You know, I'm traditional. And I'm still gay. Y'all, not me in a baby. whole world thought they might have adopted a kid. And they had us going too, right? They really had us going. I do like the plug of, you know, the whole like adoption thing and, you know,

plugging, adopting kids. My mom was a foster mom for about like 10 or 11 years out of my life. So my God, I don't call them my foster brothers and sisters. I call them my God brothers and my sisters or just my sisters and my brothers. Depends on who I'm talking to. But some of them listen to the podcast. Hey, y'all. But a lot of them spent anywhere from from like, shoot, three to four to maybe 10 years with us, with me and my brother growing up in the same household as us. So, and my mom always did everything she could to try and keep families together. So, like, if a foster kid came to our house and she found out that you had like a brother

and her sister somewhere, she would request from the social workers that we find, you know, your other siblings and they get brought to our house, things like that. Just because my mom used to always talk to me about just everything that children in the system we're going through. And Jason Lee and Tiffany Haddish were both adopted. They talked a bit about that here. And yeah, so just, you know, them being able to use the moment, you know, and the attention to talk about the importance of adopting kids and, you know, raising foster children and, you know, all those things. Don't blow a spin on that. But Jason Lee, Tiffany Haddish, y'all had me going, okay? I really thought I was sitting next to Alfawa.

We'll be sitting on that plane. Now, in other news, up next on the latest, T.S. Madison. So T.S. Madison sat down on her podcast, Outlaws with T.S. Madison with Monique. And Monique and T.S. Madison talked about a lot. Man, they talked about a lot. I enjoyed the conversation from start to finish. It was about an hour-long conversation. They got into the Monique and Tyler Perry things, and we talked about that a bit on the breakfast

club this morning. But they also got into Monique in everything that was happening with Monique's son and an update there where they are now. Let's take a listen to Monique. Will people shout as loud when they find out we're healing? No. People do the shows about Monique and her son when they found out we've been talking. Will people now shout and say, oh, my God, because we thrive on what we believe to be negative. When it comes to my son, that's mine.

Yep. That is mine all day long. That is my child. So whatever we go through, that's mine. That's mine. What I will say is I let my ego get in the way. I will say that publicly, and I had to take that down because I had to say, Monique, that is yours, baby. He's 34 years old.

You're 57. You know better. Take it down. So for all the ones asking you about me and my son, we're healing and I'm grateful. And I prayed for that healing. Please bring them back to me. Oh. Now, this was big for me to hear because Monique is not a person to, I wouldn't say Monique is not a person to admit when she's wrong.

I would not say that. But to hear her say it was my ego, I think it's hard for anybody. whether you're Monique or not, to admit when you may have added to the problem or you were a part of the problem. But to hear her say what she said, I'm like, man, because a lot of people try and make it seem like Monique is this person who just loves a problem and loves the drama because when she does speak about things she's been through, whether it's been with Oprah, and she talked about that.

Let's take a listen. Oprah, I'm not going anywhere until y'all take accountability and fix it. y'all messed with my livelihood which messes with my family never would i do that to anyone or the tyler perry incident she talked about that let's take a listen one of the biggest entertainers in the world is tyler perry and tyler perry told a lie on me and that lie cost me 12 years of my career 12 and i know that you work for that man but as i told you before and i'm going say it again until he fixes it. I will not stop because that's how the monster is created. We're too afraid, we're too scared, we're too fearful, that you're going to take something from me.

So I'm just not going to say anything. Harvey Weinstein is where? He's in jail. Now that's been going on for decades. But everybody said let it go. Don't say nothing, which allowed that man to do more damage to women over the decades. As long as I can help it. I'm saying, Tyler Per, you will not do this to another. as long as I can help it because you told a lie. And you feel like you have the God complex, so I ain't got to fix it. Either you'll fix it in life or you'll be dealt with in death. It's totally up to you, but I'm not going to where.

Or anything dealing with her, her man, her man, her man, her man, her man. Do not play with her daddy, okay? Her daddy that I'm referring to is her husband, who she's been married to for years and years and years at this point. But I found out on this podcast that Monique and her husband were actually friends. They were roommates first. Crazy story. Let's take a listen to that. If you knock on my door, I'm going to let you in.

She knocked on my door because she did an interview. And we're talking about our sister Tiffany Haddish. She did an interview with GQ Magazine. And some kind of way the conversation got to Monique. And she said, I don't have that husband of hers like she got. Wait a minute, sister. You rung the bell. You said, ding-dong.

And I said, come on in here and get this pound cake. Let's talk about it. Come on here and get a slice of it. And I didn't say it to be cruel. I said it to be factual. When you have somebody loving you, you're not going to get DUIs because that man that's loving you was going to say, hey, you've had too much.

You're not driving. That man that's loving you was going to say, whoa, whoa, whoa, what kind of videos are you making that looks like you could appear to be grooming a child? It is things that when you are being loved, You get pulled back from all of the foolishness. You get pulled back from all of the superstardom, I'm going to start. You get pulled back from that because you're enjoying being loved.

So why ever would you put yourself in a position to sacrifice your life? So whenever Monique is talking about these things, people love to make it seem like she's this like negative Nancy, this drama queen, this, oh my God. But to hear her take accountability in that moment, it's, I mean, it's her son, right? So I think that's a different level of conversation when you're talking about your own child. But what was going down with Monique and her son did play out publicly. So to hear her take that accountability publicly, I thought was a really big deal. But I mean, that's all she's been asking for, you know, after legend of things that she alleged about all the people we just mentioned like an Oprah or Tyler Perry from the beginning. So to see her do it, I was like, I like that.

I like this, Monique. Like, you know, when she was talking about her son, I'm like this Monique right here, that is the mom, that is protective, that is about her family and her, and her sweet babies, and all her sweet babies, this is what I like right here because typically, I think the conversation where her is always about what is done to her. And not that, I mean, I don't know all of the ends and outs of the situation with her son. So I don't know what was done to who in that situation. But, you know, just to hear somebody take accountability. It's just, it's a good thing to hear a witness. And I think that the reason why I say that is because it represents a really good, a really good place of like peace or healing.

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There are some people that are saying, oh, you should be ashamed of your mothering skills. You should be ashamed of yourself. This is what I'll say. Let's let it play out. Because the same ones that said to me, I was crazy, I was deranged, we watched it play out. So just like with my son, we'll watch this play out.

And I do want to address this, though, Shalon. When you say her daddy, her daddy, then that's what mommy are going to say, stop playing, because you know this has been Uncle Sid your whole life. Uncle Sid knew you before you knew you. So for you to say her three sons, yes, you're absolutely right. He has three sons. He can't claim you as his son because he's always been Uncle Sid, and he knows your daddy very well. And love that brother.

And the irony of all of this is. You're not expressing the relationship that you have with your father where you spoke ill to him, not to mention spoke ill to your mother, but somehow your mother and father and I all have a loving relationship and communicate back and forth because of the love that we have for you. Now, after this, her son got online and responded, and his take on the situation was completely different. the club shishet interview that she did where she states and she prays to the universe in regards to reconciling our relationship, as I stated, is odd. My mother and I both know that that is a very false narrative,

and I would like to free her of 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 cared. be her son. Neither one of us has had the desire to reach out to the other in a very long time, and I don't think that either of us anticipates that feeling ever returning. Speaking with my mother directly in my experience will either lead to some odd, newfound moment of clarity in regards

to how she was as my mother, or she retreats back to daddy to move forward with a conversation, and I'm tired of hearing my mother's truths. Newsflash, I'm not sure if people know, but standing in your truth doesn't make you noble. I'm not sure if people are aware of that. But responding this way, I feel as though it allows me to say my peace uninterrupted. Now, following all of this, there was a photo that was posted to Instagram with Monique and her son, and it talked about them reconciling finally and being able to begin conversations of healing and figuring it out.

And again, I think seeing that photo. knowing this background, and hearing Monique tell T.S. Madison, her ego was in the way. She can be accountable for that. She had to think, okay, this is my child. I am the adult here. And she pulled herself up by the bootstrap and figured it out in a way where they're now able to be at a peaceful place. It's just a good thing to see. I think, you know, it's always tough with women and family. and I kind of wish that T.S. Madison had dive more into this when Monique was talking about her son because I've heard Monique talk about this situation a lot. Monique, we would love to have you here on the Brongrel grinding production of the latest with Lauren La Rosa if you ever listen to the podcast. If you listen, let me know. We would love to have you here. Because what I would love to talk to you about, we don't got to get an Attila Perry again. We don't got to talk about Oprah again.

I would love to talk to you about when you were figuring out that bad. balance. I know you talked a bit about this on club, Shayshay, but I think the conversation would be different with the woman. And I think I would be interested in having the conversation because as a woman that is trying to figure out, when do I have kids, when I have them, how do I balance career? My career requires me. I feel absent as a daughter and a granddaughter right now. And I'm like laughing about it, but like I literally, it has caused me in some instances so much anxiety and so much stress just trying to figure everything out as things are moving and grooving and, you know, now I'm in the flow of things.

Like, we got the podcast, we got the studio, we know the daily time, I know the time for breakfast club, like all of this stuff, though, it's like everything was, is moving, not even was, is moving so fast and things are so new that I'm used to being able to dedicate a certain amount of time to family, being able to pick up the phone a certain amount of times a day, and I can't do that all the time. And the other day, my mom literally asked me, and it's probably even worse when it's your child but my mom asked me the other day you don't love me no more and she was so serious she was like you don't love me no more and I'm like what do you mean she was like we are best friends

and you don't even call me sometimes just say good morning the same way that you were doing prior to all this you know stuff and I'm like dang out to think about it like it's because like once I'm up I'm going I get up we at the breakfast club we leave the breakfast club I hear it to the podcast I get home from the podcast I might take an hour to myself just to not talk And then I'll call my mom and just kind of download her day. But, you know, hearing from me in the morning starts her day and we're really close. Same thing with my grandmother. And she's been complaining about that too.

So when I'm listening to, you know, Monique talk about being accountable for things and ego being in the way and finding a place of peace and healing all these years later, my first thought was I would love to hear just even mentally what you're dealing with as a mom who is being. building career career is moving so fast monique because come on y'all y'all can play with monique all y'all want and disagree with her when it comes to you know what she's going through with other people in the industry currently like you know i don't agree with everything she says i don't agree with everything she does but one of the things that i've always said is that monique is an icon monique is a legend her career is and was super big right and think about at the height of it having a child and trying to figure out the balance of the things and, you know, her career is also very physical where she has to show up. She's an actress. You know, she was hosting a TV show. Y'all remember the Monique

show? She was hosting a TV show. I believe I was on BET. She's on the road touring as a comedian. All three of these things happen in y'all, and they're all at a height. And I think now we have so many more resources. Like we got the nannies and the nanny services and just so many different things. Even like people talking about mental health now, I think puts you in a different space as a parent who's trying to juggle things and knowing like I need to take time for myself or I need to devote more time for my family or I need to find a better balance because, you know, mentally this might be putting my child in a certain space as well. Things are just different now. We'll love to talk to her just about what that journey was like because

She was in a very different time. Things were moving very fast for her, and they were up. It was the peak of everything, while also dealing with her own battles and struggles. You know, she talked about being overweight on the podcast with T.S. Madison and how it affected her. And, you know, how she almost, she didn't even know at some points, you know, what her weight was doing to her. And she said this herself, just how things were perceived. she talked about watching the parkers and being like oh wow no one told me she talked about meeting an agent and the agent saying to her because of your size you can't be sexy and fun

you'll always be the fun fat friend who plays second fiddle to someone so you're dealing with all this new you know you have you have a child you're raising just all the things trying to figure out life trying to figure we'll love to have that conversation there I don't I don't think I've ever heard her in depth talk about that. I know she did get into it a bit on Club Shayshay, and she's touched on it a bit. But I mean in depth in a way where we could really understand and honestly learn from that part of her journey. Now, at the end of the day, there's always a lot to talk about.

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