Tyler Perry is preserving his (credit score) playing cards near his chest.
The media mogul, who amassed a web value upwards of $1.4 billion, revealed that he doesn’t consider in offering relations with handouts.
What’s extra, the Hollywood filmmaker stated that he as soon as went as far as to fireside his aunt from a job as a result of she didn’t take it critically sufficient.
Perry detailed his agency stance on funds throughout an look on YouTube sequence “Den of Kings,” saying that the unidentified relative would all the time ask for cash.
“She said she wanted a job. She would always call asking for money, I would send her the money,” he informed host Kirk Franklin and fellow visitors Derrick Hayes and Jay “Jeezy” Jenkins.
“I said, ‘Listen, I want to help you. I want to help you build this thing, not be welfare to you. So, let me give you a job.’”
However the “Madea Goes to Jail” star stated his aunt was continually calling off sick, which pressured him to place his foot down.
“‘Well, you gotta go,’” he recalled telling her. “Because you want me to hand you the money, but you don’t want to work for it. See, that doesn’t work for me.”
Perry, who was just lately slapped with a $250M sexual assault go well with, admitted that he has adopted the same method when elevating his 10-year-old son, Aman.
“I don’t believe in giving us things that are just going to handicap us,” he shared. “That is the worst thing you can do.”
The director stated that he despatched letters to relations that his mom had requested him to assist out with financially after she died in 2009.
Within the letter, he informed his relations they’d 60 days to get a job.
“I’m not going to keep supporting you like that,” he informed them, including that each one relations ended up discovering employment.
“And it wasn’t even, like, jobs where they made a lot of money, but it was a job,” he stated. “It was something else for them to do, feel some pride in. That’s the same thing I would want someone to do for me.”
Perry presently boasts a web value of $1.4 billion, in response to Forbes. He owns 100% of the tasks he creates, together with his most profitable franchise to this point, “Madea,” grossing over $660 million.
It’s not the primary time Perry had opened up about his parenting decisions.
Throughout an look on “The Sherri Shepherd Show” in December 2024, the filmmaker revealed that his son solely will get “books and Legos” for Christmas, and that the pair fly coach.
“He was complaining once, this was about five years ago, he was complaining about flying commercial because the lines were so long,” he shared.
Perry stated that he and Aman’s mom, Gelila Bekele, got here to a mutual settlement that their baby could be flying business from then on out.
“So he understands, I worked, he did not. So when he works, he can learn that lesson,” he stated.
“He’s not gonna be one of those ridiculously spoiled rich kids, I can’t stand that. He ain’t got no money.”
