Tyler Perry is on the cover of this month’s issue of Ebony Magazine where he revealed he almost became a father, his new found respect for Spike Lee despite all the disputes, and talks about letting go his painful past after his mother passed away:
On the incident that almost made him a father:
Back in December he began dating when we thought we were having a kid, I got overwhelmed. (the interviewer asked) Is there a woman in your life? he responded “smiling yet no elaborating. He says, she is really, really special. It’s the longest relationship I’ve been in, largely because I don’t feel any kind of marry-me-now pressure from here.On respecting Spike Lee:
“Because I saw his children and forgot that the man has kids, he said. I’m gonna be more respectful of him and his family. I believe Spike can do what he does and I can do what I do. We both have a voice and very different experiences in life. There’s room for more than one of us in every industry, and the moment we embrace that as a society, we can get past all this stuff.On waiting to reveal sexual abuse after his mother’s passing:
When my mother took her last breath, I was able to take my first because I would not be a source of pain for her as long as she was alive, he said. I didn’t know how liberating it would be to sit in the pain of the moment, feel it, allow myself to squeeze it as hard as I could then let it go.
