Christian Keys, a popular actor who got famous for appearing in Tyler Perry plays and movies, dropped a bombshell yesterday. As Media Take Out reported, the actor explained that a wealthy male “gatekeeper” has been s**ually harassing him for years.
Christian was careful NOT to name who the alleged abuser was …. but fans quickly began speculating (without evidence) that it could be Tyler Perry.
Media Take Out has obtained no evidence that Christian was talking about Tyler. In fact, we’re hearing that he was talking about someone else. But social media doesn’t need any evidence …. they just react.
Hundreds of people have now flooded Tyler Perry’s Instagram comments, with angry messages – suggesting that he may be the man who Christian was talking about.
Here’s a sample of the shambles that Tyler’s comments look like, as of this morning.
Christian really needs to go on IG and clear it up …. if he’s not talking about Tyler, who helped launch Christian’s acting career, he really needs to tell fans – so they can leave Tyler alone.
Tyler Perry is truly one of the great Black filmmakers and philanthropists of our generation. He’s created hundreds of jobs for Black actors, singers, and behind the scenes personnel. If he’s not the person that Christian is talking about – he deserves to have his name cleared.
is an American actor, filmmaker, and playwright. He is the creator and performer of Mabel “Madea” Simmons, a tough elderly woman, and also portrays her brother Joe Simmons and her nephew Brian Simmons. Perry’s films vary in style from orthodox filmmaking techniques to filmed productions of live stage plays, many of which have been subsequently adapted into feature films. Madea’s first appearance was in Perry’s play I Can Do Bad All by Myself (1999) staged in Chicago.
Perry wrote and produced many stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. His breakthrough performance came in 2005 with the film Diary of a Mad Black Woman, which he wrote and produced as an adaptation of his stage play of the same name. He also developed numerous television series, most notably Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, which ran for eight seasons on TBS from 2006 to 2012. In 2011, Forbes listed him as the highest-paid man in entertainment, earning $130 million between May 2010 and May 2011. In 2012, Perry struck an exclusive multi-year partnership with Oprah Winfrey and her Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). The deal featured scripted projects such as The Haves and the Have Nots.[7] In 2019, he produced the political drama series The Oval for BET.
Outside of his own productions, Perry has been cast in numerous Hollywood films including Star Trek (2009), Alex Cross (2012), Gone Girl (2014), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), Vice (2018), Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021), and Don’t Look Up (2021). Perry has also done voice acting for animated films such as The Star (2017) and PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021).
