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Oh no.
Look at this mess.
It's almost 4 o'clock.
Stewart, that man.
How many times do I have to ask this man
to clean up behind himself?
I can't-- wait a minute.
Just calm down, Mona.
Calm down.
Breathe deep, and stretch, and pull.
Yes.
OK.
Lord, I just need to find the answers.
I just need some answers--
Found it.
I told you she was hiding my mail from me for 18 months.
I can't stand her.
Who?
My ex, Gloria.
You know, the devil.
I can't stand her.
Oh, I wish she was here right now and I'd choke her to sleep.
[evil laughter] Can you breathe, Gloria?
Can you breathe? - Stewie.
Would you stop it?
What are you doing?
Ssh, she's dying.
Let her die.
That's it.
Die, Gloria, die.
[trumpet sound]
Stewart, stop it.
And that reminds me, you need to quit
talking negatively about Gloria in front of the kids.
Honey, I was reading this book by life coach Diamla Benwy, who
is phenomenal, by the way, and she
says that you're dealing with associative separation
animosity.
Mm-hmm, which means you need to start
replacing those negative thoughts
with positive thoughts.
So I wrote out some cards with some positive things
you could say about Gloria whenever
you're feeling negative.
Here, read this.
It's good.
I don't have anything good to say about Gloria.
Your mother is a wonderful person.
Yes.
There's a stack of lies and I'm not saying it,
and you'll be the first one yelling,
hallelujah, thank you Jesus up in church.
I'm not saying that.
Stewart, I just want everything to be
perfect when your kids arrive.
Mona, relax.
My kids adore you.
Your daughter loves me.
Your son, not so much.
You just don't understand.
The last time the kids were here,
they completely took the sunshine out of my life.
It took almost three months for me to get back on center again.
Well, we wouldn't want that to happen.
[laughs], yes.
This is it.
What is it?
I've been looking for this check.
What check?
My state refund check.
How much is it?
$17.53.
$17.53?
So you're happy about that?
Yeah, because I don't have to give my ex half.
Stewart, are you listening to me?
I know Gloria's going to come over here and make some comment
about the way the place look, about the way I look,
how I dress, the way I smell, I can't do this
or that, I can't cook.
But baby, see, Mona can cook.
Here, taste this.
Is it good?
How's it taste?
[coughing]
Water.
Give me water.
OK.
Oh, my voice.
What's wrong with my voice?
Here, baby, drink.
Take a drink.
Oh, Jesus.
What did you put in that chili?
Oh, it's a new spice I got from Sri Lanka.
It puts the body back in balance.
Well, it knocked me off balance.
Is the room spinning?
No, baby, that's your body getting back in balance.
Look, baby, you know Gloria's evil.
Yes, evil and crazy.
You remember she flattened my tires when
we went out on our first date?
Yes, I remember.
Well, look at it this way, if I wouldn't have married her,
I would have never known how special you are, baby.
Stewart, you sound like an old R&B record.
[chuckles] Good spin.
You know, you're the one who should
have been in public relations instead of me.
No, babe, but you're really good at it.
Oh, speaking of which, the hospital called
and I got thee job.
Oh, baby, that's wonderful.
Yes, I know.
So now we can get the [SINGING] hell
up out of your aunt's house.
Ho.
Party over here.
Baby, baby.
You told me you liked it here.
I do, honey.
I do.
Look, your aunt has been good to me.
It's a special place--
old, used, run down, full of mothballs, but it's a place.
I just believe it's time we get our own, that's all.
Well, baby, about that, I've been
meaning to tell you something.
What?
She's not my aunt.
She's Gloria's aunt.
Oh, Lord.
Oh, Lord, let me breathe.
Oh, the weave itch.
Oh, come on, baby.
Every time you get mad, you start patting that weave.
Baby, you know my weave itch when I get upset.
You mean to tell me the nice, old lady
we've been living with all this time is the aunt of your ex?
Stewart, why you didn't tell me that before we moved in here?
Because I knew you wouldn't move in
and we needed a place to live.
Baby.
Look, has she ever been mean to you?
No.
Has she ever made you feel like you
weren't a part of this family? - No.
Well then, there you have it.
Aunt Bam is sweet and fair.
Yes, nothing like your ex.
You sure they're related?
That's what they tell me.
Look, baby, it's fine.
Look, I appreciate you moving in here.
I mean, that divorce wiped me out.
And my kids, they mean the world to me.
I know you love your kids, but did
you have to give up everything?
Yes, to be free.
Did you have to give up the house?
She has my kids.
They need a place to stay.
Did you have to give up the car, too?
She burned that up.
Your clothes?
She burned them up, too.
Your shoes?
She burned them, too.
The jewelry?
Melted it down, made a bracelet, had it engraved
"I hate that old bastard," wrapped it up and gave it
to me for Christmas.
Wait a minute.
That's the bracelet I saw on Bullet, my dog.
Yeah, I couldn't stand that mutt.
Well, look, I just wanted my freedom.
Baby, I'm telling you, I felt like I
was in prison for 20 years.
Mm.
Well, freedom is good, and I'll be your parole officer.
Ooh, so punish me.
We going to do that thing with the handcuffs?
Yes, we are. Mm-hmm, go ahead.
Get on over there.
I have the right to remain silent?
Yup. You've been a bad boy.
A bad, bad, bad boy.
Bad.
Hey.
Hey, daddy.
You bad.
Now I'm blind.
Wash your hands, girl.
Hey, mama.
Hey, bad boy.
Hey, princess.
Daddy, you too old to be that freaky.
I swear you were [inaudible].
We were just watching "Cops."
Yeah, right.
Oh, you look great, honey.
Don't I, though?
Hey.
I got an A in one of my hardest classes today.
Oh, baby, I'm so proud of you. Which one?
Thank you. Um, PE.
OK, that's good, but what about math, science,
social studies, history?
Girl, mind your business.
History going to repeat itself.
That means whatever happened then is going to happen again,
so I'm just going to wait for it to happen.
Ugh.
Daddy, get your girl.
She forgot who my mama was or something.
Well, speaking of Gloria, is your mother outside?
No.
- Where is she? - I don't know.
She probably somewhere flying on her broom.
[laughs] Flying on her broom.
Give me some.
Stewart, Stewart, Stewart.
I'm sorry, baby.
We shouldn't talk about your mother like that.
Your mother is a child of God, too.
You going to make me go to hell, telling them lies.
So how did you get here, honey?
I took the bus.
I thought your mother was going to drop you off.
She was running late.
I couldn't wait to get up here so I told
her I was going to head over.
Baby, you know I don't like you taking the bus alone.
You have to go through some rough neighborhoods.
Dad, if I can deal with living with Conan the Barbarian,
I certainly can take a ride through a rough neighborhood.
[laughs]
[inaudible]
Stewart.
Baby, your mother is a fantastic woman.
Oh, you need to stop it.
Mona, I like that dress.
Thank you.
I got it half off.
Oh, daddy, did you get me one?
No, baby, we didn't have enough.
Daddy, two halves make one, means
you could have bought two halves and paid the price of one.
Oh, so when she takes it all off, I'll split it in half
and give you the other half.
And being that you're so smart, I want
to see an A in mathematics.
Now where's your brother?
I think he with mama.
Mona, what you cooking?
Girl, my famous chili.
You want a taste?
Uh, yeah.
Yeah.
How does it taste?
Is it good?
It's good, come on.
Is the room spinning?
[coughing]
Take it easy.
It's just your body getting back in balance.
Now, you're telling me your brother wasn't at school?
[DEEP VOICE] No.
Why?
I don't know.
[inaudible] voice?
Take a deep breath and get some more water.
Breathe, breathe.
Now, you're telling me your brother is not going to school?
No.
Damn.
look, daddy, don't get upset.
Stewart.
I'm paying good money for that school.
It's just as good as throwing it in the trash.
I'm sure he's fine, Daddy.
You know Bryson.
He's 19 and he's still in high school.
I think he's embarrassed.
Baby, are they still--
Daddy, you know I ain't no snitch.
- Is your mother still drinking? - Daddy.
Is your brother--
You know I'm not no snitch.
Is your brother back out there?
You know I got that Lil' Kim code.
I'm going to write a [inaudible] [singing] Hey,
you right behind me, ain't you?
Little girl.
I don't know.
Look, Daddy, I don't know.
They spend a lot of time together
and he hasn't been coming home, that's all.
Oh, that boy.
Makes me want to kill him sometimes.
Look, don't get all worked up about it.
I'm sure it's fine.
Denise, girl, you keep a good attitude.
Yeah, and I'd have a better one if I had that dress.
[inaudible] new shoes.
For real, Daddy, new shoes.
Mademoiselle.
Baby, you know I'm struggling right now.
It's cool.
I love you anyway.
I love you, too.
And it's not all about material things.
You're right.
You always told me to keep a smile on my face,
and keep my head up, even if these shoes is raggedy,
this dress got holes in it.
I'm over here looking like Kizzy.
[SINGING] Swing low sweet chariot.
You playing around with that, but those Negro spirituals,
they brought us through.
And that was the signal song to let
the slaves know that the Underground Railroad was near.
See, you don't want to learn your history, Nisey,
but that's why history is important.
Yeah, I know.
I [inaudible] be singing all those old songs,
but I think my mom's favorite was [SINGING]
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
This is one of those old ones.
[SINGING] Walk with me, Lord.
[music playing]
Walk with me.
Walk with me, Lord.
Please walk with me.
While I'm on this tedious journey,
I want Jesus to walk with me.
Hold my hand, Lord.
Please hold my hand.
Hold my hand, Lord.
Please hold my hand.
While I'm on this tedious journey,
I want Jesus to hold my hand.
[vocalizing]
[SINGING] Some glad morning when this life is over,
I'll fly away.
Oh, when I die, hallelujah by and by.
I'll fly away.
Oh, I'll fly away, hallelujah.
I'll fly away.
Oh, when I die, hallelujah by and by, I'll fly away.
Come on, go to church with me.
I'm going to fly away.
I'll fly away.
I'm going to fly away.
I'll fly away.
Go where the glory, I'll fly away.
I'll fly away.
Go and see Jesus.
I'll fly away.
[inaudible] Going to fly away.
Oh.
When I die, hallelujah by and by, I'll fly away.
Hallelujah.
[applause]
Thank you, Jesus.
Hallelujah.
Praise God.
That's why I keep the Lord in my face.
Yes, yes, and the devil at your back.
[clearing throat]
You don't knock?
Not like you used to upside my head, remember?
Gloria, stop lying.
Just get the hell out of my way.
Is this [inaudible] keep my aunt's house?
Oh, I'm still mad she let y'all move up in here.
Well, I'm glad they're here.
You would be.
You always were my Judas.
That's what I should have named you.
Don't talk to my daughter like that.
Your daughter?
Now you got two little girls.
What does girl done to you?
Got you living in substandard housing.
Tell you, these young girls is after one thing, the money,
and that's what you fall for.
It wasn't the young one that got it.
It was the old, slow one.
Old and slow?
This coming from the man--
you better be glad your daughter here.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
She look young enough to be your daughter.
They look like sisters.
Telling you, this young girl right
here is going to bleed you dry.
No, that's what marrying you did for him.
No, it wasn't the marriage.
It was the divorce.
I lived very well in the home that we built.
You can learn something from a chick like me.
Why are you here?
Hey, Mama, you want to try some chili?
What the hell am I going to do with some chili?
[squealing]
Give me a bowl.
They got crackers?
You don't even need none for this.
Eat it, eat it, eat it.
Mm, this is good.
Mama, you like that chili?
Aunt Bam know how to make some chili.
Oh my god, make the room spin.
Well, she has a point.
Why are you here?
You were just supposed to drop the kids off.
I was going to do that, but someone wasn't at school today.
I know.
Denise told me that Bryson was with you.
Bryson was at school.
That thing there wasn't.
Don't call my daughter a thing.
Thing, thing, thing.
I think it's time for you to leave.
I said now, Gloria.
Trying to take this good chili out of my hands.
Are you crazy?
Hey, Mona.
Gloria likes your chili.
[coughing]
Oh.
Oh, that's awful.
[inaudible] trying to kill somebody.
Gloria, get out of here.
I will, as soon as I figure out where my kids are
going to be for the weekend.
What do you mean?
This is your aunt's house.
I know that.
I just want to make sure it's OK for the kids.
You never care where we are so what does it matter now?
Oh, so you want to show off in here, huh?
Remember, you got to come home, little girl.
You hear me?
Gloria.
What, Stewart?
Don't talk to my daughter like that.
What are you going to do?
Touch me, I dare you.
I promise you ain't seen a devil in me
until you try to touch me.
Go ahead, touch me.
Where's my son so you can leave?
Social worker says I have the right
to approve this visit because you
don't have a place of your own.
Now, if you and Little Miss Thing over here
get in my face about anything, I will
take them right out of here.
Oh, I can't wait till I turn 18.
Why?
So I can move out on my own.
You're already acting like you're out on your own,
having sex like you're 18.
Did you tell your Daddy you're having sex?
Mama, stop it.
You know that's not true.
Bryson told me.
That's probably why you wasn't at school today.
Out with some boy.
And knowing your fast [inaudible] wasn't a man.
Oh my god.
Denise.
[MOCKING] Oh my god.
Who are you, living with a man and you half his age?
That's the blind leading the blind.
Mm, I wish I had a taser, a big one.
Where's my son?
- In the car. - Doing what?
Getting high.
Is that what you've been over here
telling him, that your brother out getting high?
He is.
Oh, I can't stand it when you start talking like that.
Hey, hey.
Get off of me.
Oh my god, I got to call 9-1-1.
Oh, Jesus, he hit me in my eye.
I got to get out of here.
Bryson, Bryson.
Bryson, he hit me in my head, I mean my eye.
What?
Now you hit my Mama?
Bryson, stop.
She lying.
I bet you won't hit her again.
Damn.
See, I told you I ain't want to come over here.
Baby, I know.
I don't want you here either, but this is court-ordered.
Mama, I'm 19.
You know why I need you here.
Say hi.
Hello, son.
What up?
Hi, Bryson.
Oh, what up, Mona Lisa?
How you doing, girl?
You got a hug for your stepson.
Yeah, sure.
[chuckling]
Bryson, are you high?
As Moses was when he was on the mountaintop.
Hell, no.
He ain't high.
You always think somebody's high.
That's why we ain't make it.
Gloria, I think it's time for you to leave.
[MOCKING] Gloria, I think it's time for you to leave.
[laughs]
I said now.
Who are you to put me out of my own aunt's house?
I'm warning you.
What are you going to do, hit me in front of the kids?
You know I wouldn't hit you.
You used to, and I got the scars to prove it.
Gloria, stop lying.
Our kids are here.
And I tell them every day you are a low-down dirty bastard.
Wait, you're drunk?
I ain't drunk.
I can smell the alcohol over here.
You drove our son over here drunk?
See, Daddy, that's why I didn't want
to ride over here with her.
You can't let her drive like that.
Give me your keys.
No.
Gloria, give me your keys.
Oh, you bad.
Take them.
Give me your--
Hey, man.
Don't put your hand down my Mama's bra.
Bryson, I'm your father and I'm
doing this for your own good.
What, about trying to put your hand down my Mama's bra?
All y'all crazy up in here.
Look, I know what I'm doing, and ain't nobody,
I mean nobody going to take my kids.
[applause]
Gimme these keys, Gloria.
Just gimme these damn keys.
Aunt Bam, where you come from?
Where did I come from?
I came from heaven, where all angels descend down from.
What's going on in here?
Nothing.
She's drunk.
Your mother.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute now.
Wait a minute.
Gloria, are you drunk?
I'm fine.
You can stop that lying, baby.
I can smell the alcohol from right here.
If I light a match, you blow all of us up.
Boom.
[laughs]
What the hell is wrong with him?
He tried to put his hand down my Mama's bra.
In front of you?
Yeah.
Stewart, what are you doing?
I told you, I don't like all that freaky stuff in my house.
Don't do that.
You and [inaudible] I don't like all that going on.
Don't do that, honey.
And I told y'all about it.
That's what the children are all messed up now.
Look, I'm out of here.
I'm leaving.
Gloria, I got your keys, and you got bad knees, honey.
You ain't going nowhere.
Look, it's bad enough you got him and this girl living here.
Now you're going to force me to stay?
Yeah, either that, honey, or you go on
and I call the cops, have you arrested,
as soon as you leave out that driveway.
Go on, baby, go on.
Hey, put that phone down, honey.
I didn't really mean that.
We not snitches, honey.
That's what y'all do over in that bourgeoisie neighborhood.
Y'all just be telling it and telling it.
Over here in our neighborhood, honey,
we just take you out back and we handle our business.
You hear me?
Honey, we don't call the cops.
We hide from them.
Fine, but you're my aunt, and I'm still upset you let him
and this little tramp move up in here.
Now, don't say that, Gloria.
I let you live here when you was a tramp.
Don't do that.
[laughs]
It ain't that funny.
Don't laugh at your mama.
She couldn't help if she was a tramp or not.
Gloria, go on upstairs, honey, and get you some sleep.
Sleep that off.
Go on upstairs and sleep some of that off.
[inaudible] I choke you to sleep.
Lord, have mercy.
OK, here we go.
Listen.
Oh, baby, could you please get that grocery
out of the car for me?
Thank you so much, Stewart.
Thank you, Aunt Bam.
Oh, Lord, have mercy.
Baby, listen, they let you wear your little choir robe
home today?
She always be dressing like that.
Shut up.
And I always be laughing at her.
[laughs]
Listen, baby, why are you wearing
this little outfit, honey?
You look like Harriet Tubman come get you
for the Underground Railroad.
Excuse me?
You look like a slave, honey.
Just don't wear this little outfit no more.
I don't like this.
Why do you always cover up?
You got a nice little shape.
Why you cover up all the time?
What are you hiding from?
Hiding?
Hiding, you hear me.
Hiding.
Aunt Bam, this is my style.
Well, you need to change it, baby.
It don't look good on you.
Aunt Bam, I just got hit on by so many
boys, the men, the grown men.
I'm trying to be focused on school.
I'm not trying to be like my mama or the rest of them
fools in the neighborhood.
Wait a minute, baby.
Now, you started out really good.
You really did.
But don't do that, honey.
This little outfit right here is telling your future.
Well, what's it say? What's it say?
Baby, it look like you're saying,
I ain't going to never--
I just ain't going to never.
[laughs] I just ain't going to never.
You tell her, Aunt Bam.
You know what?
Let me tell you something.
If my stash come up missing, I promise you right now,
they're going to need an Amber Alert for you, honey.
An Amber Alert.
An Amber Alert, you heard me.
Ha, ha, ha, hell.
Come on, [inaudible]. Come on, babe.
Let me tell you something.
Listen, go on out back and lock them doors and them windows,
honey.
And put my riding lawnmower up.
You know this boy, honey.
He steals, and you know it.
Go and put my riding lawnmower.
I got it.
Look, don't get on it.
Just push it, honey, or that vibration will get you, honey.
How about that riding lawnmower, honey, when Sylvester died?
And I promise you, that thin just going to save my life.
I just ride it and ride it and ride it.
I ride it over here and I ride it over there, baby.
I just be cutting everybody's yard.
Bam, come over here and cut my yard.
I mean, I just can't get off of it.
I ride it on Fridays and Saturdays.
I ride it on Sundays.
I just ride it and just let it [inaudible]
until all the gas run out.
I just can't take it.
Aunt Bam.
Sometimes I even pop wheelies on it.
Aunt Bam.
I sure do miss Sylvester.
Aunt Bam.
What, baby?
Cut it out.
Oh, she back.
Now, I know Gloria's been crazy a long time,
but I've never seen her like this.
Didn't you tell me she was an outpatient rehab?
She was an outpatient rehab, and then she just
got all the way out, honey.
But I'll tell you what, Gloria going to end up in an inpatient
hole if she keep on driving drunk.
That ain't going to be good for her.
Mm, tell me about it.
No, no, really.
You remember what she did?
Yeah, I remember.
She flattened her tires.
Her tires?
That was my car she was driving.
Ma'am, she swear it wasn't her.
That was her.
My mama wouldn't do that.
[laughs]
Do you even know your mama's name?
Yeah, I know my Mama's name.
What is it?
[laughs]
Right.
That's what I thought.
I know it was her.
Look, we're not going to let her ruin this for us.
She's going to sober up and then she's going to leave.
All right.
Gloria.
[laughs]
Gloria what?
That's my mama's name.
Yeah.
Oh, watch this y'all.
What's her last name?
[laughs]
Now that's going to take two hours right there.
Bryson, baby, Lord, have mercy.
I'm just praying for you.
I'm praying for you, baby.
I thought you told me you was getting better.
Aunt Bam.
Aunt Bam, let's try to leave that alone.
Wait a minute. No, no, no.
Don't tell me to leave it alone.
Honey, you tell him to leave it alone.
He in my house, honey.
You tell him to leave stuff alone.
He the one stealing, not me.
You all know he stole my VCR.
You ought to be glad somebody stole that old thing.
It went out in the '80s.
It still work.
They don't sell beta tapes anymore.
They coming back.
Oh yeah?
Beta tapes is coming back.
It's that internet foolishness that
ain't going to last long time.
Who want to log in, and then put a password in,
and then click this and double-click
that and right-click this.
And pop-ups are popping up.
I don't want nothing popping up unless I make it pops up.
That's all foolishness, honey.
Ain't nobody got time for all that stuff.
I just want to watch a movie.
So wait, wait.
So you'd rather load a beta tape into a VCR?
And push play and watch the move.
Yes, that's all.
Aunt Bam, you gotta get with the times.
What, baby, my time is the right time
to be with the one you love.
It's called the old-school, baby honey.
It don't get no better than no old-school, I'll tell you that.
But stuff is much faster now.
That's what I'm talking about.
That's what I'm talking about right there.
See, fast ain't always good, honey.
Tell her, Stewart.
You know what I'm talking about.
You ain't no spring chicken just 'cause
you got a little young chick on the side.
He is not old, stop it.
He is.
Oh, he old enough to be your daddy.
Aunt Bam, love does not have an age.
But that's what you say now, honey.
You say that now, but one day you're
going to be over here saying, Aunt Bam,
can I ride your lawnmower?
Can I ride that lawnmower?
And I'm going to say, hell no.
You go get your own lawnmower.
Baby, you say that now, but I tell you, in about five years,
when you ready to do the do, he ain't
going to be able to do the do.
Not 'cause he can't, just 'cause he ain't going to be able to.
He just can't, honey.
He going to tell you, you know it.
Aunt Bam.
What?
I will always be able to do the do.
Yeah, as long as I have my blue pills.
Peterson.
[laughter]
Aunt Bam.
Wait, Peterson?
That's my Mama's last name.
[laughs]
That's good.
Look, he quicker than I thought, y'all.
Well, look here, what's the middle name, baby?
Think on that.
Aunt Bam, what are you doing with blue pills?
What do mean, what am I doing with blue pills?
MONA: Yes.
Sometimes I just keep them around.
I just keep them around, just in case a little company come over
and everybody ain't able.
You know, I'm a lot of woman. he got to be ready, that's all.
[laughs]
I just keeps them, just in case.
- Aunt Bam? - What?
A little company.
AUNT BAM: My little company.
Thank you.
Aunt Bam, you are so funny.
That's why I want to come live with you.
Wait a minute, Stewart, we don't talk about this.
Baby, I know, but there's not enough room for all of us here.
That's it.
There's not enough room here for you, baby.
I'm so sorry you can't move in with me.
Aunt Bam, you don't like us living here?
I love y'all, baby.
I love you all so much I could just kill the two of you.
I really do.
Well, Mona, I'm happy you with my dad.
You make him so happy.
Because when he was with my mom, he was miserable.
That lady is crazy.
No, she's out of control.
Yeah.
And since you got remarried, she act like the world
is coming to an end.
You know, she sits in her room and stares at your pictures.
What?
Stares at whose picture?
His.
Lord have mercy, she stares at his picture?
Yeah, for hours.
I can't stand to look at him for three minutes.
I don't understand why she would be just
all looking at him like that.
And Aunt Bam, that's not all.
What, baby?
The other day, I was in her room looking for something,
and I found a pair his shoes up under her bed.
What?
Wait a minute.
You found a pair of his shoes up under her bed?
Yeah.
Did you try to move them?
I tried to but the funny thing is my Mama
had them nailed to the floor.
That's not good at all, y'all.
- What? - That's not good at all.
Let me tel you something, y'all got get out of here.
- Huh? - What?
I got to get y'all out of here.
This is not going to be good at all.
Aunt Bam.
Baby, where did you get that weed?
It was under--
Why is that weed right there?
Give me this.
See, Stewart, that's what I'm talking about.
Why is this weed in here?
You don't brought this weed in here?
- That was you. - No, this ain't my weed.
I keep it, but it ain't mine.
I didn't put that there.
It look like a good grade, but look at.
Look at, this is not mine.
Don't do that, honey.
Don't do that.
I'll keep that.
I was looking for that. - Huh?
Where that weed was.
Look here, baby, y'all need to get out of here.
Listen, that girl gone been to the voodoo doctor on you.
Who?
Gloria went to the voodoo doctor on you.
Anytime somebody your shoes up under their bed, baby,
that means they're trying to keep you at their bedside
for the rest of your life.
That's crazy.
I already left her.
Have you?
Do you know that you have?
This ain't good, honey.
I did it one time to a man, honey.
That man never left my bedside, ever.
You're into voodoo?
Lord, have mercy.
Baby, look.
This was before I got saved.
Honey, I'm saved.
I don't play around with no voodoo.
Don't mess with that stuff.
That stuff will kill you.
Voodoo, don't play with that stuff, honey.
I was trying to trap the man.
I just wanted to trap.
Oh, it traps a man.
You don't need to know none of this.
Get over there and sit down, honey.
Wait, but Aunt Bam, that explains it.
She has some hair under there, too.
It was long and brown.
Uh-oh.
Mine?
That's you, baby.
That's you.
Wait, and Aunt Bam, and there was a sock.
A sock?
It was filled with beads and beans and melted wax.
Oh Lord, y'all got to get the hell of here, y'all.
Wait.
Y'all killing me.
Y'all bringing all these spirits in my house.
I can't it, honey.
Beads, beans, and melted wax means your stuff
is going to fall out.
What?
And that hair up under that bed, that's your hair.
That's a root, honey.
She got a root on you.
Wait, wait, wait.
Aunt Bam, that's not her hair.
Hey, let me tell you something.
God just blessed you, honey.
That's right, her hair is black and kinky.
It's nappy.
That's right.
Your hair is black and kinky, honey.
And that hair you got on, oh no, that's not good.
Lord have mercy.
There's a child and woman somewhere
not even understanding why her hair falling out of her head.
But there's a root.
There's a root on her, honey.
She don't even understand.
She over there trying, somewhere,
honey, wondering why-- but I ain't going
to talk about how she--
ain't going to even say what that woman--
This is crazy.
I feel so bad for her.
This is crazy.
I don't believe in all that stuff.
I have the Lord on my side. - Well, you listen.
You better keep the Lord on your side, 'cause that's
all going to help you, honey.
But let me tell you something.
That voodoo ain't got no power.
Just give your life to Jesus, that voodoo ain't
got no power on you, honey.
Ever.
You hear me, Bryson?
[AFRICAN ACCENT] Follow me, I know de way.
[laughs] He's out.
Bryson?
[AFRICAN ACCENT] Follow me, I know de way.
[laughs] Aunt Bam, when he smoke, he swears he's African.
That's not funny, y'all.
That's really not funny.
Lord, have mercy.
That's why I don't mess with that hard stuff, right there.
That's very [inaudible] To have you talking out of your head
like you're crazy?
You can't make sense of nothing.
You'll start a sentence over here
and you'll finish it over there, and you won't even
know that you started a sentence over here, because then you
start a sentence over there, and when you finish it over there,
it will be over here.
No more.
I don't do that hard stuff no more, baby.
That's why I just smoke me a joint every once
in a little while and I'm good.
Aunt Bam.
What? What?
It's for my glaucoma.
It's medicinal, baby.
I just smoke it, honey--
I just started really smoking it not too long ago,
about a couple of years ago.
Before I was smoking weed, making real [inaudible]..
Before I started smoking, I was size 2.
[laughs]
Now I smoke all that weed and I blew up.
It ain't good for you.
Why are you laughing?
You can't believe I was a size 2?
That's not fun, honey. - Really?
Really, Aunt Bam?
Really?
Really, really, really.
You need to eat.
You need to eat something, hon.
I eat.
No, I'm talking about meat or something, baby.
Aunt Bam, you know I'm a vegan.
And I'm a Baptist, but I still eat meat.
She's a vegan.
It means she doesn't eat meat.
Listen, what are you really trying to say to me, baby?
I said I'm a Baptist and I do eat meat.
But she's a vegan.
It means she doesn't eat meat.
I get all the protein I need from tofu.
What is tofu?
What is it?
Look, it's really good for you and it
can taste just like meat.
It could take just like meat.
Why would I eat anything that could taste just like meat when
I could just eat some meat?
I don't even understand what y'all be going through.
I don't understand why y'all do that, honey.
It don't make no sense.
Don't make no sense to me at all.
When I smoke that joint, I don't want to eat no tofu.
I want to to some foo up.
I be ready to throw it up.
[laughs]
Hey, Mona, whatever happened to that little dog you had?
Who, Bullet?
He ran away.
It was that tofu that ran him away.
Aunt Bam.
See, dogs don't even like tofu.
[music playing]
[knock on door]
Gloria.
You been asleep long enough, hon.
Come on, get on out.
Come on.
Gloria.
Well, I guess I'll let her sleep a little longer.
Oh, look at the baby.
Lord have mercy.
Oh, Lord.
How can something so sweet be so foul when you get up?
It's a shame, honey.
Look at you, laying pretty.
Gloria, I'm going to put your keys in your purse.
I'm going to put your keys in your purse, Gloria.
[snoring]
Girl, you made me think I was riding on my lawnmower.
You sound like Sylvester, girl, I tell you.
God rest your soul.
Sylvester, I just miss you, honey.
I just miss you, miss you, miss you.
Bam, you really should not be going through nobody's purse.
But you going to drop the keys in there.
I just want to drop the keys in there.
Well, drop the keys in there.
I'm going to drop them in there.
Don't start.
Don't start with what?
Don't start with me.
OK.
Just drop them in there.
What is that down there?
She got so much good stuff in here.
See, that ain't even right, right there.
Gloria, why would you even put this in here?
I bet you've been just driving and drinking.
You can't do this, baby.
See, this is the problem right here.
I can't let you be driving around
like that with this old alcohol bottle in here.
It smells-- yeah, it's 100%.
Yeah.
Oh, Lord, that's real real.
I keep that right there so I can make sure you
don't hurt yourself, baby.
But it really is a sad thing.
Gloria, it really is sad.
Gloria, come on, get up.
Come on, get up, Gloria.
Aunt Bam.
Get on up.
What are you doing in my house?
No, baby, you in my house. Come on, get up.
Come on. - Did I move?
No, you didn't move, honey.
You're in my house. Get up.
How did I get here?
You drove here.
Get up.
Gloria, we need to talk, honey.
You need to get some help, baby.
Let me get out.
Yup.
Whoa.
How long was I asleep?
About two or three hours, Gloria.
Come on.
I gotta get out of here.
Listen, Gloria, baby, you are going to have to--
What?
I pulled it out.
And I got rid of all of it.
I pulled it out.
What are you doing with that liquor in your purse, anyway?
I was thirsty.
Well then drink some water, honey.
Drink water.
I know what you're going to say,
and I don't have a problem.
Well, yes, you do, baby.
You really do have a problem, Gloria.
I'm going to tell you that now.
Really, you do.
Your mother would be turned over in her grave right
now if she knew what you were doing.
Please don't say that.
What do you mean, don't say that?
Didn't she teach you better than this, baby?
Don't you-- you got a flask, too?
I did not see that in there.
Gloria, listen to me, baby.
This right here ain't going to lead to no good place for you.
You got to think about other people, baby.
What if you hit somebody else's child, honey?
You may not die in an accident.
Somebody else may die in an accident.
Think about everybody else.
This is not good for you just to be driving drunk.
Please, don't bring all that up here, OK?
This is the reason why I don't come over here anymore.
You're always in somebody's business.
No, no, no, no, no.
See, that's where you're wrong, baby.
I ain't always in your business, honey.
I don't do that, honey.
You brought all your family over here, you and your children,
and you're all up in my house.
You hear me?
You brought your business in here.
So being a family with me means that I'm in your business.
It's just that simple.
[music playing]
[SINGING] Look at you.
Gloria, let's look at you.
See, you're all messed up, drunk, broken, and confused.
You keep saying that you don't know which way to turn.
I remember when you were a little girl.
Respect is what you earn.
You know why nobody wants to hang around you?
'Cause you're twisted and mean and bitter,
and there's nothing more we can do.
There's only so much we can do before you destroy you.
You ain't got no love.
Baby, if you don't have no trust, girl,
you ain't got no girl.
Oh, listen.
None of us are perfect.
We all have a thing.
Why don't you just take some time
to make everything all right?
You brought it on yourself, and we've had about enough of you.
Empty your heart of all the evil thoughts and find the truth.
You know why nobody wants to hang around you?
Because you're twisted and mean and bitter, and OK,
there's nothing more we can do.
Done as much as I can do before you destroy you.
You ain't got no love if you don't give us no trust, girl.
We can't give you no love.
Hey, what about [inaudible].
You ain't got no love.
You have forgot about Jesus.
You ain't going to get no love.
Love is patient.
Love is kind.
It does not envy at any time.
Love is patient.
Love is kind.
It does not envy at any time.
Love is patient.
Love is kind.
Does not envy at any time.
I just want to push you in your head.
I just want you to listen to me.
Oh, Gloria.
Can I have my keys now?
Listen to me.
They're in your place.
I just want to mush you in your head.
But I love you, Gloria.
Gloria, Gloria.
Gloria, honey.
- Mama. - What?
Boy.
Boy, what are you doing?
Wait.
Where's your daddy? - Mama, look.
I don't know.
Look, I don't want to stay here.
I need you to stay here.
You got to do something for me.
Mama, I can't stay here.
Look, I'm going to need that.
Mama, you know what I need. [music playing]
Boy, I'm not giving you nothing.
You promised.
Well, then you have to do what you have to do.
Mama.
What?
That man left us.
He left you hungry.
He molested your sister.
He beat me, and he took all the money
and he gave it to that girl.
Now, look, baby.
You a man now.
OK, you strong.
You're a man, and I cannot beat your father.
But you can.
So tonight, when they go to bed, I want you to get that bat
and wear him out.
Mama.
Please, just do this for me.
Do this for Mama.
I don't to.
You want this crack, right?
Yeah.
Here.
You do it tonight.
You hear me?
Yeah.
Good.
Wait, where's the rest of it?
I'm not giving you all that.
The last time you almost OD'd.
I can handle it.
I am not crazy.
I'm not giving you all that.
I need you to beat him, for me and for your sister.
Baby, please.
Mama loves you.
I know.
But Mama, that is my Daddy.
When I was pregnant with you, he
wanted me to have an abortion.
And when I said no, he pushed me down a flight of stairs.
And when you were young, he put a gun in your mouth
because you wouldn't stop crying.
Mama, Mama, look.
OK.
OK, I'll do it.
He ain't never going to put his hands on you again.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I don't want you to kill him, I just
want you to make him suffer.
Beat him real bad.
Death is too good for him.
And if Little Miss Muffet gets in the way, do her, too.
What if I go to jail?
You will not go to jail.
Your father is too weak to press charges.
And have all the guys at work know
that his son whipped his tail?
Baby, please, just do this for Mama.
Please?
OK. OK.
Here.
Here is some more.
Now you go out to the garage and you do it before you go
at them tonight, you hear me?
OK.
Mama loves you.
[music playing]
[laughter]
That wasn't the most embarrassing moment, honey.
I think the most embarrassing moment was when I was 12.
I was 12 and it was in the summer.
It wasn't in the summertime.
It was right around Easter because it was time
for me to do my Easter speech.
And before we got to church, me and my Mama
had the biggest fight.
She wanted me to put on a slip.
I didn't want to wear no slip.
I was 12 years old, it was hot, and I had big thighs.
And I didn't want to wear no big slip under that skirt.
It was already hot.
But anyway, I stood up there in front of the church
and I got ready to do my Easter speech.
It's Easter Sunday and--
and everybody just started laughing.
And I was like, well, let me start over.
It's Easter Sunday morning, and before we get--
they were getting louder.
And I felt a cool breeze.
I was like, oh, Lord, what are they laughing at?
All of a sudden, honey, I looked down
and my skirt was fell down to the floor.
[laughs]
I had on one of them wraparound skirts.
You remember them wraparound skirts?
You tied them.
I was 12, I didn't know how to tie it tight.
Anyway, so that old skirt fell down.
Honey, I was embarrassed.
People thought I was embarrassed 'cause my skirt fell down.
That wasn't why I was embarrassed.
[laughs]
Why?
I didn't wear no drawers that Sunday.
I told you, I was experimenting and we
had some visiting preachers.
And they were standing behind me.
I was so grateful for my Mama.
That's why I wear a slip today.
I just keep a slip on all the time.
Aunt Bam.
I thought to wear them with my pants.
I'm telling you, boy.
Aunt Bam, I've had some embarrassing moments myself.
You ought to be embarrassed to be married to my daddy.
Excuse me?
He said she ought to be embarrassed to be
married to you.
He didn't say nothing.
Oh, boy, you high?
Drink this.
Don't you hate him sometimes?
Bryson, who?
Him.
Daddy?
Boy, no.
Drink this.
Look, I know what he did to you.
OK, Bryson, what are you talking about?
I know what he did to you, and he going to get his.
I promise you, he going to get his.
OK, well, in the meantime, can you just drink this?
Because you high.
Bryson, hello?
Bryson, water, drink, you.
Bryson.
Excuse me, sir.
Bryson, where are you going?
- Don't worry about it. - Huh?
Bryson. AUNT BAM: Where is he going?
Bryson.
AUNT BAM: What is he doing?
Bryson.
Wait a minute.
OK, he's acting really strange.
Bryson is strange.
Honey, y'all know that.
DENISE: I guess.
AUNT BAM: Where is he going?
DENISE: I think he's going to the bathroom.
Oh, well make sure he don't go--
OK, he ain't going in my room.
All right.
[door slam]
Bryson, you scared me.
Is everything OK?
What, I can't talk to you?
Yeah, yeah, you can talk to me.
What's on your mind?
So you really love my Daddy?
Yes, I do.
He beat you, too?
Beat me?
He used to beat my Mama.
He never told you that?
No.
And he raped my sister.
Look, he tried to kill me.
Bryson, I don't believe that that is true.
And I don't believe that you know him.
OK, why don't we go down with the rest of the family.
What family?
We ain't no family.
OK, I'm going to go down to the--
Why do you look so nervous?
OK.
Look, we ain't your family.
How old are you?
I'm 27.
See?
I told you.
He like them young girls.
He 45.
I'm 19.
You should be with me.
But I'm with your dad.
What, so you think you better than me?
No, no, no.
I don't think I'm better than you.
You know what?
I see the way you look down your nose at me and my Mama.
You think you're better than me. - No.
Bryson, I think you should move. - You ain't going nowhere.
- Bryson, please don't. - Come here.
Let me go.
[screams]
Let me go.
Stewart!
[interposing voices]
What the hell is going on?
Get your hands off of me.
Are you all right?
I'm fine, but that boy is on something.
You need to get to him.
- Just calm down, Bryson. - He's on something.
Bryson.
What?
He don't care nothing about us.
Bryson.
You do that to my Mama and you do that to my sister.
AUNT BAM: Bryson, wait a minute.
Oh my god.
Honey, don't hurt him.
[interposing voices]
No, Daddy, no.
[screams]
Oh, Stewart, he's getting you.
Oh.
Wait a minute.
Get him.
What the hell is wrong with you?
That's enough.
Man, you just left us.
Daddy, [inaudible]
You pushed my Mama down them steps.
And you raped my sister?
What?
Who's telling you this stuff?
Mama lying.
Bryson, Daddy never raped me.
I hate you.
Bryson, Bryson.
Wait a minute, baby.
Bryson.
Just wait a minute, baby.
Now, you are a smart boy, baby.
Just calm down, baby.
Just calm down.
Just calm down, baby.
Just calm down.
Stewart, talk to her.
Boy, do you know how much I love you?
You don't love me.
You just love your new wife.
I love you, man.
All you guys do is--
all you guys do is fight.
Wait a minute, hon.
Bryson, just-- Stewart, talk to him.
[SINGING] when the doctor said you were a boy, my whole heart
was filled with so much joy.
You in my arms, safe from all harm.
Rocked away till the early dawn.
I am so grateful for this one chance.
I have a challenge to raise a good man.
I tried sometimes, but I think I failed.
But before I let go, I'll fight the devil in hell.
Son, son, I give my life to see you through,
but you got to make a step, too.
Son, my only son, Daddy is here for you,
but you got to go through.
When the doctor said you were a boy,
my whole heart was filled with joy.
I rocked you to sleep, taught you to count sheep.
I pray the Lord your soul to keep.
I dread the day that my little boy went away and returned
a man that I don't understand.
I can help you, but you've got to trust me.
I can lead you to Jesus.
He will set you free.
Son, oh son, I give my life to see you through,
but you've got to make a step, too.
Son, my only son, Daddy is here for you,
but you've got to want to go through.
Son, my only son, I give my life for you.
Oh, but you've got to go through.
Son, my only son, Daddy, Daddy is here for you,
but you've got to want to go through.
Son, my, my, my, my, my son.
Let me lead you to His Son.
He's the only one.
[applause]
[vocalizing] My son.
[applause]
Bryson, Mona, Aunt Bam, call 9-1-1.
What happened?
Bryson.
Call 9-1-1.
What happened to him?
Call 9-1-1.
Bryson.
Is he OK?
Father, it is in the name of Jesus, Lord,
that we come before you now, O God.
[music playing]
Aunt Bam, what do you think happened?
Baby, I don't know, hon, OK?
We're just going to have to wait and see, OK, baby?
But I want to go to the hospital.
Oh, just stay right here with me, hon, OK?
Don't [inaudible].
I'm so mad.
OK, I'm mad, too, baby.
Aunt Bam, my Mama wrong.
I know she wrong.
She's wrong, she's wrong, she's wrong.
OK, OK.
Honey, OK, wrong about what?
Look, I didn't want to say anything because I
knew it would make my dad mad.
OK, would you tell me what she wrong about?
Go.
Look, my brother is weak.
My mother brainwashes him.
She tells him all these lies.
She leads him around like he's a puppy,
and she's giving him drugs.
Wait a minute now.
Wait a minute.
Now, honey, you gone a bit too far now.
I know brainwashing and I know he weak,
but you do not know for sure that your Mama
is giving that boy them drugs.
Don't say that, honey.
And whatever you do, do not tell your Daddy that.
I don't need him to understand that.
I don't need him to hear.
I don't need him to do nothing with that.
But Aunt Bam.
AUNT BAM: Don't do it.
That's our Mama.
Why is she like that?
Well, honey, you can't choose the parents that you're given,
baby.
That ain't how life goes.
She embarrasses me.
She hates me.
No, she doesn't.
Then why does she talk to me like that?
OK, listen.
Listen now.
Look, she's not a real mother at all.
OK, listen to me.
Don't you say that.
Just because she acts like she is and acts like she does,
you cannot do that.
You still have to honor her, honey.
The Bible says honor thy father and thy mother that thy days
might be long upon the earth.
You still have to honor her, no matter what she does.
Can't let her mistakes make you miss your blessing.
This is hard.
I know it's hard, baby.
Loving somebody who does you wrong ain't easy,
but it is right, and we got to do that.
But my Daddy's a good man.
I know he is.
But look how she treats him.
Listen, learn from it.
You get it?
Learn from it, honey.
You just make sure when you get a good man in about eight,
nine, 10 years--
You make sure you treat him right.
That's all, baby.
What am I supposed to do?
Pray.
I know it sounds so simple and sounds so vague,
but that's what we have to do, pray.
And then pray some more.
I'm so mad.
Then pray some more.
I just wish I knew what happened.
I wish I knew when Bryson and my mom, when they lost their way.
Pray, baby.
[music playing]
[SINGING] Sitting here low, the bottom's at the top.
Sitting here in agony, my heart's about to drop.
A child in pain, and I can't make it stop.
I wish I knew the day.
I wish I knew the hour.
I wish the time my mother went astray.
I wish I knew the day.
I wish I knew the hour.
I wish I knew when my mother's love went away.
I hope my mom's OK.
I hope she finds her way.
I'm coming back to me.
I'm going to let go of this grief.
Hey, I'm coming back to me.
I'm going to find relief.
[vocalizing]
I wish I knew the day.
I wish I knew the hour.
I wish I knew the day my mother went astray.
I wish I knew the day.
I wish I knew the hour.
I wish I knew when my mother's love went away.
It's all right.
Yeah, it's OK.
I'll make it.
Somehow, I'll make a way.
It doesn't matter what my Mama says.
It doesn't matter, no, no, no, no.
I've got my Daddy's love.
I wish I knew.
I wish I knew the day.
I wish I knew.
I wish I knew my Mama's love went away.
I wish I knew the day.
I wish I knew.
I wish I knew the hour.
I wish I knew.
I wish I knew when my mother went astray.
I wish I knew.
[vocalizing] Hey, I wish I knew.
I wish.
[vocalizing] Hey.
I wish.
I wish I knew.
[applause]
I wish.
Yeah.
I wish.
It's OK.
I wish I knew.
It's OK, baby.
We got to just keep praying for her.
It's going to be all right.
You're going to be all right, baby, OK?
Oh.
OK, OK.
What did the doctor say, baby?
He OD'd.
His heart gave out.
Lord, have mercy.
Oh, jeez.
Is he going to be all right?
They think so.
Well, Lord have mercy.
We just got to get him off them drugs, y'all.
We just got to get him off them drugs.
Aunt Bam, the doctor said he had enough cocaine
in him to bring down a horse.
A whole horse?
Lord have mercy, that sure is a lot of drugs, baby.
A whole horse.
Where's he getting these drugs from?
He doesn't have any money.
Look, Daddy, I got something to tell you.
[SINGING] I wish I knew.
I wish, I wish, I wish.
I wish.
I wish I knew.
We don't know.
Baby, Denise, how's your brother
getting all those drugs?
She don't that.
She don't know.
Stop asking her all these questions, honey.
She don't know that yet.
Now, if I didn't know any better,
I think it was his mother.
Look, she's evil, but I don't think
she'd stoop that low, to use her own child to get back at you?
No.
Something's telling me that it's her.
MONA: No.
No, it's her.
My Holy Ghost is not lying to me.
Something's telling me that it's her.
[applause]
Didn't you tell me--
[SINGING] I wish, I wish.
I wish, I wish.
I wish you'd just go on and--
Didn't you tell me you saw them getting high together.
DENISE: Yes.
Now wait, wait, wait.
Don't do that to her.
She don't know.
She don't know that, Stewart.
Don't do that.
That's it.
Stewart, where are you going?
- Daddy, no. - I'm going to set her straight.
Stewart, come here.
She's tried to kill my son.
Stewart, you don't know that for sure.
You don't know that she tried to kill your son for sure.
You don't know that.
Now you come back here and sit down, boy.
You don't know that for sure.
Let me talk to her first.
All I need is for you to end up in jail, honey.
I can't take that.
If you go to jail, I don't know what I'd do.
You pay your rent you pays it on time.
I need that money.
Just let me please--
just let me please talk to her, OK, baby?
Just calm down.
Aunt Bam, I wouldn't hit her.
Well, I know you wouldn't her, baby,
but she sure swears that did you.
Don't do that.
Don't rush out like that.
Baby, let me make you some herbal tea to calm you down.
Yeah.
You want some tea?
I don't want no herbal tea, honey.
I don't put mine in tea.
I [inaudible] mine.
Are you OK?
I'm fine.
Good, because I don't like it when you're upset.
I can't believe this.
How did it get this bad?
It's OK.
You're OK.
And he's going to be OK.
I feel like I let my kids down.
There are two forces working here.
I know.
Stewart, this isn't your fault.
I keep trying to tell myself that.
Do that, and tell yourself this, you're a good man
and you have a woman that loves you so much.
I love you, too.
We'll get through this.
You're all I ever wanted in a man.
And you're all I ever wanted in a man.
Was she always this bad?
No.
Really?
We had a good life at one point.
What happened?
It went bad the first five years,
and I stayed for 13 more.
Why?
Why did you stay?
My kids.
I thought it was going to get better,
but she started drinking.
And I tried to stop it, then everything
went downhill really fast.
Wow.
And baby, you know me.
You know me.
I kept asking myself, is it me?
Is it me?
And the more I realized that it wasn't, I
just let everything go.
It's OK, baby.
It's OK.
Yes.
Just sit.
[vocalizing]
[SINGING] 'Cause everything's safe, the way it should be.
Every little moment, just know that God sees.
Yes, the good, and even the bad.
Of course, the happy, and even the sad.
But it's all, it's going to be OK.
And this pain will soon pass away.
And your heart, it will go on 'cause our God
is on the throne.
So I know it's OK.
Come on, let's take a walk.
OK.
When you worry, it does no good.
But just pray.
You know you should.
Oh, take the joy and take the pain.
But take the sunshine and even the rain.
Because it's all, it's going to be OK.
And this pain, it's going to pass away.
And your heart, it will go on 'cause our God
is on the throne.
Don't worry and don't you fret.
Don't cry.
Don't even try.
Trust the Master, He has a plan.
Trust the Master.
It's all in His hands, in His hands.
Yes.
Don't worry.
It's going to be OK.
And this pain you feel, it's going to pass away.
Your heart is going to go on, is going to go on.
I know, yeah, it's going to go on.
It's going to be OK.
This pain will soon pass away.
Your heart, your heart is going to go on.
I know God is on the throne.
So it's going to be OK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I said it's going to be OK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's going to be OK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He can [inaudible].
It's going to be OK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I love you, Stewart.
[applause]
[music playing]
Dang it.
I'm so glad you're all right.
Me, too.
Lord have mercy, baby.
I'm so glad you tell me you're bringing him home right now.
Hey, baby.
Oh, Lord.
My baby, I'm so glad to see you.
Wait a minute.
Oh, this is good.
This is so good.
Don't you ever do like that again.
You scared me, boy, half to death.
You all right? - Yes.
I'm sorry.
Come on in.
Come on in, sit down.
Lord, have mercy.
Boy, you scared us half to death.
I'm sorry.
Baby, you're just going to have to stay off
all them drugs, now you hear?
I will.
AUNT BAM: Thank you.
Look, I know I apologized at the hospital,
but I really am sorry.
It's OK, son.
Well, hopefully, you learned something.
I don't plan on ever touching them again.
Wait a minute, what do you mean you never
plan on touching them again?
It's not that simple, baby.
You got to do more than just plan on not touching them.
Aunt Bam, God can do it in just one step.
I know God can do it in one step.
He can also do it in 12 steps.
And that's what you need, baby, a 12-step program.
Them 12 steps program, they work, honey.
They only work if you go through all 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
You got to go through all the steps, honey.
You got to go through everything, honey.
You could have died.
I know.
My Daddy took me to the morgue and showed
me several people who had OD'd.
Oh Lord, well, did that open up your eyes?
Yes, ma'am.
Good. 'Cause if you ever take me through all that mess again,
I promise you, I'm going to swell them shut.
Don't you ever do that to me again, baby.
Don't you do that to me no more, honey.
You almost gave me a heart attack.
I can't believe you had all the police and [inaudible]
coming over here.
Honey, you know I got illegal substances
growing in the backyard.
I just want to choke you.
Almost gave me a heart attack.
All that [siren sound] coming over here, honey.
I don't like that.
I thought they were going to bring dogs and things.
I don't know.
You know I don't do dogs.
And I don't even like the dog, honey, since Alabama.
I don't even like dogs.
I don't like dogs and I don't like waterhoses.
I don't even like that.
I don't even like taking showers.
Aunt Bam.
I don't like all that water on me.
Aunt Bam, you don't take showers?
No, I don't take showers.
I take ho baths.
What's a ho bath?
It's a quick bath that hos take.
Aunt Bam, that's nasty.
That is nasty.
That ain't nasty.
You ever smell me?
No.
You ever smell a ho?
Yeah.
Well, she ain't do it right.
They don't do it right.
Why did you leave this out here?
Didn't I tell you, don't be leaving this stuff out here.
Don't be doing no experiments in my house.
Son, I haven't seen you this clear in a long time.
I was clear, but I'm [inaudible] make me cloudy.
[inaudible] make you cloudy.
I'm going to tell you something about cloudy.
I told you about leaving stuff out like this.
Let me tell you about cloudy, honey.
This right here is going to be your brain,
you ever do this stuff again.
If you ever do this stuff again, this will be your brain.
And this will be your brain on drugs.
I promise you.
You all didn't see that. Look at that.
There it is right there.
I told you, put this up, hon.
I don't like when you leave stuff out like there.
Don't do that, honey.
Learn your lesson, baby.
Don't do us like that.
Don't take us through these changes no more.
Hey son, can I talk to you for a minute?
[inaudible] out of the way.
Son, what did you mean that it was scary for you?
I got a lot to deal with.
I got a lot of problems.
Well, that's what being a man is.
Not hiding behind drugs or anything
else, but standing up in your life, facing your fears.
I know.
You can't hide from the world.
But Mom told me you did all those things,
and I just got so mad.
I mean, I didn't know what I was going to do.
Hold on. Hold on.
Hold on, son.
I know you don't understand what's going on between me
and your mother, but I never hit her
and I never hurt your sister.
She was lying to you.
None of that was true.
Why should I believe you?
Because I'm telling you the truth.
Son, I love you and I would never do anything to hurt you.
But it hurts me that you can't come to me and get some help.
I'm always here for you.
Man, you just left us.
Bryson, you were young.
No, no.
Look, I might have been young, but you still left us.
I thought it was best to leave than to have
you go through all this stuff.
Even though I left your mother, I never left you.
Son, I love you, after all I did,
especially after all I've done.
I'm your father, and nothing can ever change
that, After all I've done.
[SINGING] Dad, I know I did this to myself.
I chose a wrong road, and now I'm asking for your help.
Dad, I know this has been rough on you,
but please understand it's been rough for me, too.
'Cause I'm broken, battered, but still blessed.
Saved and sanctified, still I find myself in a mess.
Dad, I'm still your one, only son.
I'm still your little boy after all the wrong I've done.
When you look at me, what do you see?
And when you're angry, do you still love me?
I know that I'm to blame, and I can know that.
But Daddy, please love me like you did before you left.
'Cause I'm broken.
And battered, but blessed.
You can be saved and sanctified, and still find yourself.
Find yourself in a mess.
[vocalizing]
Broken and battered.
But I'm still blessed.
Saved and sanctified.
Still I say I am blessed.
Please forgive me.
I know it might be hard.
Please accept me [inaudible] with the Lord.
Every day I kneel to pray, praying that I won't go astray.
[vocalizing]
Broken, battered, but blessed.
I could have been dead.
I could have lost my mind.
But I was broken, yeah.
Broken and battered.
But I'm still blessed.
Yeah, yeah.
Saved and sanctified.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was broken, yeah.
I am blessed.
No matter what they say about me.
I am blessed.
No matter how they talk about me.
Hey, hey, hey.
I am blessed.
Hey, hey.
Still I say I am blessed.
[applause]
I just left the hospital.
Where's my son?
Mama, Mama, I'm right here.
I'm fine.
What happened?
He overdosed.
What?
How-- how could he have overdosed?
You tell me.
Gloria, I need to talk you, honey.
I thought you hit him.
Why would you think that?
Because I know you, Stewart.
I wish I never knew you.
See, and then your kids wouldn't be here.
You see how your Daddy feels about you?
I didn't mean it like that.
Yes, he did.
Stop trying to twist my words.
Stop trying to turn my children against me.
Like you did my son?
And that's why you had to go to the hospital, because he OD'd?
Bryson knows not to take too much, OK?
Wait a minute.
What do you mean Bryson knows not to take too much?
You knew what he was doing?
Yes.
He needs a man around.
I'm just a woman.
I can't raise no man.
You can just stop all that, honey.
You can just stop all that, I'm just a woman stuff.
Plenty of single women out there raising boys.
[applause]
They trying to be mother and father to them, honey.
You can just cut all that out.
And you can't raise a daughter, either.
Shut up, you little, ungrateful tramp.
Don't talk to my daughter like that.
You shut up.
Hey, listen to me right now, girl.
You better show me some respect in here.
I'm sorry, Aunt Bam.
Yeah, you ain't seen sorry yet.
Get up there in my room.
Everybody just calm down, just barging up in here
and just trying to take over, looking like Edith Bunker.
You don't come up in here and run things, honey.
You got the wrong one, baby.
Now what is wrong with you?
Do you hate that man that much that you would
sacrifice your own son for it?
What is this, gang up on Gloria day?
Yeah, and it's going to be followed
up by whoop Gloria's ass week.
And that girl told us that you were
giving that boy them drugs.
I didn't.
Yes, you did.
She ain't got no reason to lie to me.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Gloria.
You hate that man that much that you would
sacrifice your son for it?
What is wrong with you?
I don't know what.
Well, you better find out, honey.
I'm just-- I'm just mad.
Listen to me.
That man went through all he could with you,
and he was a good husband to you.
I just get so tired of everybody always
saying they're the victim.
Things always going wrong with you, Gloria.
Well, check yourself.
[applause]
That man stood by you, went through that addiction
with you, went through drug-- you got him in debt, honey.
He still went to work, paying for you and that house
you over there living in.
He wanted out, Gloria.
You were wrong.
Now you going to barge up in him because your son OD'd
when you were the one that gave him the drugs.
You are pathetic and simple, and I am just sorry that my blood
runs in your veins.
The sight of you just makes me sick,
and I want you to get out.
Get out of here.
Aunt Bam, you've never talked to me like this before.
Well, I'm just so sorry.
And you should be for saying these mean things to me.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, honey.
I am not sorry for one word that I have said to you.
I'm sorry that I didn't say it sooner.
[applause]
Aunt Bam, you're just going to take his side.
I'm on the side of right, Gloria, and you are wrong.
You just so foul.
Wake up.
Wake the hell up, Gloria.
The things that are happening to you and your life,
honey, you manifested them.
You brought all of this stuff down on yourself.
No, I didn't.
He left me.
Listen, you forced him out.
He molested my daughter.
No, he didn't.
- Yes, he did. - No, he didn't.
Admit it. Admit it.
Right now, just admit it. You lying.
No he did not.
He hit me.
No he did not.
I can't talk to you.
You just lying [inaudible].
Get out of here.
Come on, get out of here now.
Aunt Bam, you're all I have left,
and now you're going to walk out on me.
I sure am.
Until you are able to tell the truth to yourself and everybody
else, baby, I cannot help you.
Fine.
I don't need you.
OK.
You remember that.
You remember that, Gloria.
I will be helping Stewart get custody of these children,
and they going to move into my place, baby.
And I'm going to take care of them
and I'm going to love them, and I'm going
to show them some real love.
Do you hear me?
I love my children.
Shut up.
You don't love nothing but that bottle.
I love my kids.
Then make a choice, Gloria.
Put the bottle down.
Get clear.
Stay clear.
Love your children, honey.
Do that, baby.
Make a choice, Gloria.
It's either the spirits in that bottle or the Spirit of God
to reign over your children.
Which one is if, baby?
[applause]
Don't come to me with all this God crap.
Oh.
Oh, God.
Your mother is turning over in her grave right now.
I'm sure she is.
You sound just like her, talking about how the Lord
is going to make a way.
We were still poor and hungry.
He didn't make the way.
He did, Gloria.
You're still here.
He did make a way.
[applause]
You're still here.
What about when Mama died?
What about it?
She left me here alone.
She was sick, honey.
She was sick and she was ready to go.
But I wasn't ready for her to go.
Gloria, and that's when you're going to start drinking?
Answer me.
So that's when you start drinking?
Yes.
Well, Gloria, why didn't you come to us for some help?
We love you.
We would have helped you.
You can't be mad at God because your mama died.
You can't be mad 'cause Stewart left.
You forced them out.
Your mama was tired.
And she knew the Lord, baby, and she was ready to go.
But I wasn't ready.
So you just sit around here and destroy yourself?
You don't-- you don't understand.
I don't understand?
I don't understand, Gloria?
Baby, I've had to deal with death.
I had the best daddy in the world.
And that day I had to see him in that casket, honey,
I wanted to jump over there with him,
left me here to deal with all you fools.
But I couldn't, honey.
I had to just deal with it, because I
knew I had a life to live.
I knew that he knew that there was some other things
on this earth that I had to do.
Your mother taught you that, Gloria,
that you have some dreams that have not yet been realized,
baby.
Death and life go hand in hand.
You can't get upset about that.
You can't get mad at God about that.
And let me tell you one thing, baby.
All the alcohol, cocaine, drugs, whatever you got,
honey, can't make the pain go away.
It can't make the pain go away, Gloria,
because when you come down, when you stop being drunk,
you're still going to feel it.
It just feel like grief just sits on the side of the bed
and just waits for you to wake up, and then it's right there.
They embrace you like a robe and slippers.
Honey, you just got to deal with it.
How?
Through that very God you don't to hear nothing about.
He's a comforter.
He allowed it to happen.
She was His child first.
You can't be mad at God, honey.
Your mama taught you better than this.
She taught you to love the Lord.
She taught you to trust the Lord,
and she did not want you to be in this way.
When is enough enough, Gloria?
You did this to yourself.
And you just need to decide when enough is enough.
And when you decide that enough is enough, baby,
we'll be right here waiting for you to come back.
That's how much we love you, Gloria.
You tell us, when is enough enough?
Because we've had enough of you.
[applause]
[music playing]
[SINGING] Look at all these memories, how they fade,
black to white.
I still feel pain and callous.
But it's all right.
They don't know how hurt I've been and all the many lies.
They don't know what it feels to be left out in the cold.
They don't understand.
They don't even care.
They could never be the answer to my prayer.
They don't understand.
They don't even care.
I gave them all of me and they left me in despair.
I wake up every morning feeling so bad.
My mind's all crazy and my heart is sad.
And you're sitting there, you're looking straight at me.
I try to move on, but it hurts so bad.
They don't understand.
They don't even care.
They could never be the answer to my prayer.
Oh, they don't understand.
They don't even care.
I gave them all of me and they left me in despair.
So I drink now and then.
because I can't admit [inaudible]
I scream when I think about everything [inaudible] to me.
Oh.
You, you, you, you, you don't understand.
You don't even care.
You could never be the answer to my prayer.
Oh you don't understand.
You don't even care.
I gave you all of me, all of me, all of me, but you left me.
You left me in despair.
[applause]
Gloria, do not leave these children.
Do not leave your children.
Just wait a minute.
Mama, Mama, I love you.
Mama, don't cry.
Gloria, we're here for you.
- I know you. - I can't.
Yes, you can.
I can't.
Gloria, come here.
Gloria, don't leave these children.
Gloria.
Aunt Bam, Aunt Bam, how she just
going to leave us like that?
[music playing]
Baby, baby, we just have to pray for her, honey.
We do.
Some people just have to come in on their own time, baby.
But we can't give up on her.
God never gave up on us.
He didn't give up on you.
He still loves me.
[SINGING] We just can't give up now.
[applause]
We've come too far from where, from where
we started, started from.
Oh.
Nobody told me that road would be easy.
I don't-- I don't believe He brought us,
brought us this far.
Y'all, He ain't going to leave.
[applause]
[SINGING] I don't feel no ways higher.
I've come too far from where I've started from.
Whoa, nobody told me that the road would be easy.
Yeah.
I don't believe He's brought me this far to leave me.
[applause]
[SINGING] I know--
I know He'll always [inaudible] Lord,
I've come too far from where I've started from.
Nobody told me that the road would be easy.
Oh, I don't believe He's brought me this far.
I don't believe He's brought me this far.
I don't believe He's brought me this far to leave me.
[applause]
[music playing]
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, introducing
the cast and band of Tyler Perry's "Aunt Bam's Place."
The band.
On trumpet, Melvin Jones.
On saxophone, Michael Burton.
On drums, Marcus Williams.
On electric and acoustic guitar, Derek Scott.
On percussion, Aaron Draper.
On keyboard and organ, Natalie Reagan.
Also on keyboard and organ, Justin Gilber.
Your musical director on bass guitar, Mr. Robbie Garrett.
Your background singers are Rashad Henderson, Raquel
Morton Briton, and Tasha Denae.
Now, for this all-star phenomenal cast.
Maurice Lauchner, Taral Hicks, Jeffery Lewis,
Paris Bennett, Melonie Daniels, and as Aunt Bam, Cassie Davis.
[applause]
That is amazing. Sit down.
God bless you.
Thank you so much.
Stop all that screaming.
Did you enjoy the show?
Make them feel really good, y'all.
Make them feel really good.
They have worked so hard.
[music playing]
I wanted to do this show--
I know it's a little different, but you know,
it's time to come up some streets
and talk to some people on the real.
So I wanted to do this show about that.
'Cause this is going on every day and nobody
is talking about it.
And what is so wonderful about being able to tell a message
like this is you can slip it in there while nobody's
paying attention.
Come on, somebody you know that's drinking too much,
come over.
I got this new Tyler Perry DVD, we're
going to sit and watch it.
Somebody you know that's doing drugs, come on, sit down.
Let's talk and laugh a little bit, and before you know it,
they're being ministered to. [applause]
I'm so proud.
I wanted to find some new people.
What's so crazy about this girl here, Miss Paris Bennett,
is I worked with her grandmother and her mother.
She was nine years old.
My first play.
I know I've been changed.
Her grandmother is Aunt Nesby and her mother's name
is Jamica, and they singing some ballads.
And even then, she was singing.
She ain't got no taller, but she was still
singing at nine years old.
So I was trying to find some new talent.
Y'all know Jeffery, who I found on YouTube.
[applause]
Miss Melonie Daniels on the end.
[applause]
Right?
Finally, right?
Finally, you get to see her out front doing something.
She's been in the background singing for a lot of people,
and finally, she's out front.
[SINGING] You don't understand.
Y'all don't want me to get that.
Y'all don't want to mess with that.
Maurice.
Give it up for Maurice here.
[applause]
And this is Taral.
She is amazing.
Her sister is D'atra Hicks.
I've worked with her for quite some time,
and it's really great to work with the younger sister.
And this lady right here.
[applause]
Let me tell you something.
When we started talking, it was like family.
Been together ever since.
[applause]
So what I would say to you is this.
Don't give up.
You, you, don't give up.
Don't give up.
I don't care what's going on in your life.
I don't care how tough it gets.
I don't care who says what ain't going to happen for you.
Keep going.
Keep dreaming.
Keep believing.
Keep trusting God.
Keep believing.
I'm telling you what I know, keep believing.
If I had stopped, I wouldn't be here now.
I think about all the times I wanted to give up,
all the times I wanted to walk away.
If I had said, no, this is enough,
I wouldn't be standing in this position.
And I tell you, for all the hell that you go through,
what sense is it to go to all of that hell in your life,
go through it day to day to day to day to day,
and stop right before you get to what you're pressing toward?
You got to keep going.
[applause]
God bless you.
I love you.
So great to see all of you.
[applause]
Take it all.
Take it all with you.
Use it.
I love you back, darling.
Thank you.
Thank you, Khadija.
Y'all take care.
See you soon.
[music playing]
We're from Raleigh, North Carolina.
Glad to be here.
We're all the way from Michigan to see Tyler Perry.
All the way from Connecticut.
I'm here with some friends.
I have a good friend from St. Paul, Minnesota.
My friend and I drove from Shreveport, Louisiana.
Drove from Birmingham.
Tyler Perry, you're the best.
This lady came all the way from Maryland
to see Tyler Perry.
Yes, I did.
Came all the way fro, Canada.
As we said, we're from Canada.
And we've come to see just about all of your plays.
We've gone to Detroit, New York, Atlanta now,
and we'll probably go just about anywhere to see your shows.
Tyler Perry, you're the man.
This is the first time I've ever
seen one of Tyler Perry's plays live, and I think it's great.
I really thought the play was amazing.
Great message, and I loved to see it.
How on earth were you able to choose people that not
only could act, but could sing?
It really inspired me to sing more in church,
and I have chills right now.
They should have given everyone a box of tissues,
because you absolutely needed it.
The most touching part was the mama, Gloria,
because I felt her pain.
As a single mother, I really enjoyed it.
I can really relate, because I raised
a son who's now in college.
The play really touched me because I am a single mother.
I cried.
I laughed.
Your play touched me, it moved me,
and it gave me much strength and hope and courage.
In true Tyler Perry form, he touched on every emotion.
But it was so kind of funny, but I really liked the show.
You are one excellent writer and producer and entrepreneur,
and everything else.
Tyler, keep on doing what you're doing.
God is blessing, and I'm so thrilled to just
be a part of the audience.
Keep on doing what you're doing.
You really touched a lot of souls and hearts.
And Tyler, I need a job.
[laughs]
Take care, Tyler.
See you later.
Bye bye.
Bye.
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