By AFRO Staff
The cast of the popular 90's sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air". (Courtesy Photo)
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(June 23, 2009) - Actress Janet Hubert, the original sitcom mom on popular 1990s comedy “Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” has waited nearly a decade to air Will Smith’s dirty laundry before the public eye.
In her new book, Perfection Is Not a Sitcom Mom, Hubert dishes on the show’s behind-the-scenes politics and what she calls Smith’s egoism, insensitivity and public slander.
“There’s a machine and it was designed to make him a superstar,” said Hubert of “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” in an interview with blackamericaweb.com. “That machine was designed to steamroll over anybody who got in the way. I was simply a body.”
According to the actress, Smith was verbally and mentally abusive on set, spewed “your mama’s so Black” jokes and has slandered her name to such an extent that she is unable to find consistent work in the entertainment industry.
“He had a lot of power. He had full power on that set. Maybe not the first season, but by the second, third season, he was basically running it,” said Hubert in an interview. ““He knew what everybody was making because even on that V103 interview he said, “She made $250,000 – a quarter million dollars a year. Now she ain’t makin’ nothin.’’
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