Mo’Nique hopes her win for Precious will bring more awareness to the prevalence of child abuse.
The star — who bagged the Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture gong for her role as the abusive and psychologically ill Mary Jones — prays her coveted golden statue will help people wake up to molestation.
“I think for so long we have swept it under the carpet. For so long, when it is time to deal with that issue, and when it is time to deal with molestation inside the home, we walk away from it and we don’t address it,” she told Fox News. (why fox??)
“So, oftentimes we live [with] those demons and are not really dealing with it. So we continue to have a damaged life, and it is time to stop that. It is time for us to heal and be survivors and no longer be victims.”
Mo’Nique has already seen first-hand how her role has had a powerful impact on viewers.
“I don’t know how any audience couldn’t think about this issue, because it is universal,” she said. “It happens everywhere and when you get an Asian brother that comes up to you after a screening and says with tears in his eyes, ‘What I’m going to say to you Mo’Nique, is going to sound weird, but I am Mary Jones, and I need help,’ we won. Because if that one life was changed, we won.”