[INTERVIEW] Love & Hip Hop Hollywood’s Hazel-E & Moniece On: Female Empowerment, Dead Beat Mom Labels & Reality TV

Moniece: I don’t really intend to flip it I don’t really intent to justify it. I know who I am I know just as well as my baby daddy knows. We’ve been through the ringer and I have continuously made sacrifices for my son and I have continuously endured disrespect, verbal, emotional and physical abuse and at this point my goal is not to say this isn’t true, that’s not true it’s to say I know it’s out there and I really don’t give a f-ck you don’t have to like me. We don’t have to be friends, but you will respect me and I think that that’s a common error in this generation especially amongst African Americans just period across the globe.

 theJasmineBRAND: Now tell me, this sounds like a lot of wisdom because you’re basically saying you stand up for what you do, who you are and you own it. Where does that wisdom come from?

Moniece: Because I’ve been through some sh-t and I come from a musical legacy, but my life has not been a cake walk so I’ve had it all materiality I’ve lost it all and you know just like Hazel said I’m not on my back f–king for a check and it looks like all the hoes are having fun their on yachts here and jets here and Louboutins here and Chanel there and I have those same things but I busted my a– to get them and nobody gave it to me. So when you have that ability and you’re not scared of hard work to lose,  it is nothing because you know you can get it back it’s just a matter of how and it takes a little bit longer. At the end of the day, I can say I did that and at the end of the day my son can look at me with the same adoration at 40 that he has at four knowing nothing at four, but having lived life and knowing a lot more at 40 he can look at me the same way and say that’s my mom and he can look at me with pride.

 theJasmineBRAND: It seems like the both of you have a similar message female empowerment at the end of day that’s what it’s all about one more thing to ask you before they rush me out of here is there anything that the two of you fear having everybody see what your real lives are actually like?

Hazel E: The one thing that I do fear is like people think that I’m this hard core ratchet girl. I’m a sweetheart I wear my heart on my sleeve and sometimes I’m a Taurus and I’m loyal to a fault. I really stand being loyalty before royalty — I really stand behind the girl code and if you think I’m simping sometimes it’s not that I’m simping it’s just that I actually give a f—. I’m sorry I wish I can be more cut throat.

theJasmineBRAND: Moniece is there anything that you fear?

 Moniece: Of course my biggest fear throughout this whole journey is my son’s emotional wellbeing. I don’t ever want him to bear the brunt of the decisions that his father and I have made by deciding to do this and that too is a very hard pill to swallow. So I just hope that he is spared. I’ll endure anything for my child.

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