Just as a film tore their friendship apart, another put it back together in 2022 when Daniels and Mo'Nique, unbeknown to her, were joined again through her newest film, a thriller called "The Reading," directed by filmmaker Courtney Glaude. According to THR, Glaude reached out to Daniels about the film to ask for feedback. Daniels then spent five months working on the movie with Glaude — work that included editing footage of Mo'Nique.
"In that footage I saw the woman that I worked with some 13 years ago," Daniels told THR in 2023. "But I realised how much I loved her. And I realised how talented she was." Shortly after, Daniels called Mo'Nique (both pictured here in 2009) when he also realised "not only did I want to reach out to her, but I realised I wanted to work with her again."
That phone call eventually led to Daniels offering Mo'Nique a role in another film called "The Deliverance." But in that same conversation, the comedian told the director, "'Lee, we can't talk about a part until we talk.'" "And he was like, 'I know.' And then we had a real conversation," Mo'Nique told THR. "That was the moment that he said, 'I'm going to apologise to you and your family for anything I've done to hurt y'all.'"