TP: Well, I hated the food that was in the house with a passion. I feel like he had to endure so much so that I could be here. TP: And me, too, when I say it, but it's so true. There wasn't anybody there to protect him or make sure he was okay, but he made it through. I think about the child I was, the tremendous debt I owe him now. O: When you're a little boy, you don't know that. And that it was his issue, that I didn't own any of it. It wasn't until I got older and my mother and I had some conversations that I started to get where his anger came from. I didn't understand it for a very long time-why so much disdain and hatred. This girl's parents only knew to beat her, so what she knew was to beat my father. When he was 2 years old, he was found in a drainage canal by a white man and brought to a 14-year-old black girl called May to be raised. TP: My father was a man who didn't know his parents. O: What was life like for you with your father? It didn't matter that I was 40 I still felt so much fear around him. Even when my mother was well, it was hard to go home and sit with my father and try to smile. That's what I do when I need freedom from something. I had been carrying so much heaviness for so long and trying to smile my way through it. I was frustrated with so much in my life. I was told she had only a month or so to live, which turned out to be true. O: Last year you caused quite a stir when you wrote on your Web site about your extensive abuse as a child. I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love. There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized. I love the idea because I think my whole life is a miracle, and I wonder if you think yours is also. Oprah: This issue of the magazine is dedicated to miracles. Start reading Oprah's interview with Tyler Perry When I'm near him, I have the same experience I had back when I first went to one of his stage productions: I leave feeling more connected to others, like I just came from church. The fact that Tyler's work began with a play he scribbled in a notebook-and that he has grown it into such a powerful bond with so many millions-still blows me away. And now I don't have to worry about getting bedbugs when I travel, 'cause I have my own mattress!" "This is my home away from home," he told me. He was in Washington, D.C., to perform in Madea's Big Happy Family, and we met up in a parking lot, in his favorite place to unwind on the road: a double-wide mahogany-paneled bus, complete with kitchen, sitting room, two bathrooms, and bedroom. I sat down with Tyler on a rainy Sunday morning last September. It made me so proud to see the respect everyone had for him-there was a lot of "Mr. When I visited him on the set last year, he was in his element, and I loved watching him. Now he's pushing his self-honed directorial talents to a new high with a drama that debuted in early November: For Colored Girls, based on Ntozake Shange's 1975 play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. After his second film, Madea's Family Reunion, he opened Tyler Perry Studios, in Atlanta, and went on to direct and produce seven other movies and create two successful TBS shows, Tyler Perry's House of Payne and Meet the Browns.
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His first movie was 2005's Diary of a Mad Black Woman, adapted from his 2001 play and featuring his most famous character, the outspoken, gun-toting, 66 grandmother, Madea. Since then millions of people have turned out to see Tyler's work. He kept on pursuing his dream, and in 1998 it finally took flight, when hundreds of mostly African-American fans lined up to buy tickets for the seventh staging of the show he'd devoted his life to, I Know I've Been Changed. When that effort failed (and failed, and failed, six times over), he was left homeless, disheartened, and broke-but not broken. In 1992 Tyler moved to Atlanta with the dream of staging his first play. The trauma left him confused and angry-one especially "nasty" outburst got him kicked out of high school-but he found an outlet in writing about his life. Outside the home he was also sexually abused, as he recently revealed on my show. Tyler, 41, grew up in New Orleans, in a physically abusive home. There's a similarity in our paths: Each of us has been on a journey that can only be called a miracle. It doesn't surprise me that Tyler Perry and I have become close friends in recent years. Perry sits down with Oprah to talk about his journey from struggling artist to superstar. The director, playwright, and actor is the first black studio mogul in American history-but 14 years ago he was living in his car.
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