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Comedian Sheryl Underwood recently unearthed a 14-year-old beef with her co-stars on The Talk regarding The Queens of Comedy.

Underwood’s absence in the spin-off film of The Original Kings of Comedy has become a thing of legend and according to Underwood, it was because three of the four “queens” in Sommore, Adele Givens and Laura Hayes badmouthed her during a phone conference as the movie’s production was underway.

“So the producer called me and said ‘there might be an opening’ they were going to tape another comedy concert. So I’m thinking here’s my second chance,” Underwood remembers. There’s a conference call. In my enthusiasm, I dial into this conference call that has not started yet, I was thinking I’m going to be on time. So I dial into this call—and Mo’Nique is not on this call—and what I hear is, Sommore, Adele Givens, and Laura Hayes talking about it. I hear discussion about my appearance, discussions about my ability. Why is she going to be apart, what do we need her for. So I was startled and hurt, I have to say, I was so shocked and hurt, that I could not un-mute my phone to say ‘hey bitch, I hear you.’”

Underwood is known to fully embrace disparaging comments about her looks but in 2000, it wasn’t something she apparently had yet to learn.

“I stayed on all of the call with my phone on mute. So I thought take notes and listen because rarely we hear someone talking about us and saying what they truly feel about us. So after hearing this call, I was bruised but I wasn’t broken. I listened to the entire call, I waited for everyone to click off and I called Walter Lathem and I said, ‘ I don’t think this is going to be a great fit for me.’ To this day, they did not know I was on this call…”

She also went on to describe how she worked with all three ladies on various occasions throughout the years. When word got back them however, none of them denied it happened but weren’t too pleased in being entangled in the dated drama.

Watch the video below and hit the flip to see the Queen’s unruly reactions. It appears Mo’Nique dropped a subliminal message as well.

Photos: Twitter/CBS

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