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Tyler Perry Story
As a young child he suffered a background of harassment and abuse and he wanted to take his life to escape the beatings of his father but his mother on the other hand took him to church every week where he sensed a certain refuge and contentment.
At 16 he changed his name from Emitt to Tyler in other to distance himself from his father. Years later after seeing the film "Precious", he was moved to relate for the first time accounts of being by a friend's mother at age 10; he was also molested by three men prior to this and later learned his own father had molested his friend.
Due to the abuse and frustration, Perry could not complete high school. He eventually discovered his ability to write after watching after watching an episode of the Oprah Winfrey's show where someone talked about the corrective effect writing an have on a person. His first play ‘’I know I’ve been changed”was financed with his life savings of $12,000 at the age of 22 years and even though discouraged, went bankrupt, lost several jobs, slept in his car, went hungry,and was super convinced to give up on his dreams, he didn’t, he never gave up.
As at now, Perry is known for both creating and As at now, Perry is known for both creating and performing as the Madea character; a no-nonsense, tough black woman. Perry also creates films, some produced as live recordings of stage plays, and others professionally filmed using full sets and locations with full editing. Perry is estimated to have earned around US$75 million by 2008. Many of Perry’s stage-play films have been subsequently adapted as professional films. Perry has also created several television shows, his most successful of which is Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, a show that ran for eight seasons on TBS from June 21, 2006, to August 10, 2012. On October 2, 2012, Perry struck an exclusive multi-year partnership with Oprah Winfrey and her Oprah Winfrey Network. The partnership was largely for the purposes of bringing scripted television to the OWN network, Perry having had previous success in this department. Perry has created multiple scripted series for the network, the most successful being The Haves and the Have Nots. As of 2014, The Haves and the Have Nots has given OWN its highest ratings to date. The series has also been referred to as being “one of OWN’s biggest success stories with its weekly dose of soapy fun, filled with the typical betrayals, affairs, manipulations and a bitch slap or two.
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