Oprah Winfrey TIRED Of Tyler Perry Because He Is ‘Difficult’ To Work With

According Daily Mail Online, once best buddies TV mogul Oprah Winfrey and Movie producer Tyler Perry are at logger heads.

Sources say the once practically inseparable pair barely speak to each other now unless it’s regarding business.Working together on programming for Winfrey’s OWN Network caused the major strain in their friendship.

Perry, 46, has three series on the channel which include the sitcoms For Better or Worse and Love Thy Neighbor – along with the record-breaking drama The Haves and the Have Nots.

‘When Tyler first brought his shows to OWN in 2012, it was a love affair between the two of them.

‘Oprah was very involved in watching Tyler develop them creatively and they even shot promos together with her as Miss Sophia from The Color Purple and he as Madea.

‘But that relationship has soured in the last six months because Oprah finds Tyler difficult to work with and he doesn’t take constructive criticism well at all,’ a source explains.

Things grew tense with the pair late last summer when 62-year-old Winfrey suggested Perry hire some additional script writers to help develop his shows, particularly the top-rated drama The Have and the Have Nots.

She shared with him research from focus groups and the general consensus from executives at the company was that the writing could be ‘improved significantly.’

‘That’s when Oprah finally got to see a side of Tyler she hadn’t experienced yet. He resisted her feedback, the same way he resists the feedback of critics and media people who chastise his work, and became extremely defensive with her.

‘He told her, “Aren’t the shows delivering ratings for the network? Well, then let me do what I do and you can keep your focus groupresearch to yourself”,’ reveals the source.

Winfrey reminded Perry that the reason he approached her about doing a deal at OWN was because he lost his TV deal at TBS.

‘Oprah basically had to remind him, “you needed me as much as I needed you when we decided to do this partnership and don’t forget that”,’ tells the source.

When the former playwright first launched his sitcoms Tyler Perry’s House of Payne (2006) and Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (2008) at TBS, he scored huge ratings and the network created a new fully-staffed urban division just to manage his programming.

Read More

Here is hoping these two juggernauts resolve their differences amicable and keep working together at least for the sake of their fans. Oprah and Tyler Perry are a match made in heaven.