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Mo'Nique won an Oscar for "Precious." She was paid $50,000. The film made $63.6 million. Then she refused to promote it for free. She says she was blackballed for it. In the video below, she explains who asked her to work for nothing, and what they said when she asked to be paid. She never complained about the $50,000. "That's what I signed up for. It was an independent film." She finished her promotion in the US. Then Lionsgate asked her to fly to Cannes. She said no. They offered another week in France and a better room. Her husband asked if there was a dollar amount. The answer: "We will never pay anyone to promote a film." Then Tyler Perry called her into his room. He and Oprah were producers on the film. She says Perry told her a nomination would make her next movie worth $3 to $5 million. A win, $6 to $8 million. "You can pay me to promote it," she told him. "I'm not in the habit of giving out money for free," he said. "Then I'm not in the habit of working for free." She says Oprah's longtime makeup artist, Reggie Wells, asked Oprah why she didn't just pay her. Mo'Nique says the answer was: "I won't be paying her nothing." She won the Oscar anyway. She says the big offers never came. The case for the studio: every actor promotes their film. That campaign helped win her the Oscar. And $50,000 was the deal she signed. So should Mo'Nique have promoted it for free?