{"id":998769,"date":"2022-02-21T12:30:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T12:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/21\/queen-latifah-brings-pearl-thusi-to-tears\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T12:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T12:30:45","slug":"queen-latifah-brings-pearl-thusi-to-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/21\/queen-latifah-brings-pearl-thusi-to-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Latifah brings Pearl Thusi to tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Queen Latifah, an American actress and rapper, has moved South African actress Pearl Thusi to tears after she sent her a shout-out complimenting her work in the industry, specifically her acting in \u201cQueen Sono.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thusi, who couldn\u2019t believe her eyes, posted a video of herself crying while watching Latifah\u2019s shout-out on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Pearl Thusi, what\u2019s up? This is Queen Latifah, just wanted to give you a shout-out sister and let you know you are strong, you bad, you know,\u201d Latifah said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m watching you. I\u2019m watching you do your thing. Keep doing your thing, and maybe one day we\u2019ll do something together that\u2019ll be hot,\u201d Latifah said.<\/p>\n<p>A tearful Thusi, who recorded herself, couldn\u2019t believe Queen Latifah knew who she was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s definitely talking about me, heck,\u201d she said after watching it a second time. I can\u2019t, I can\u2019t, I can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also need to talk to myself about why I\u2019m recording myself crying, because that\u2019s weird,\u201d she said before breaking down in tears.<\/p>\n<p>In the caption that accompanied the video, Thusi explained why this shout-out meant so much to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pain I\u2019ve been through in the last two years is something I\u2019ve hidden so well,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Losing my father, heartbreak, the cancellation of QS, and watching people celebrate while the sting from something out of my control continued to burn\u2026 And just when I thought one of the most epic weeks of my life was coming to an end,<\/p>\n<p>She expressed her gratitude and humility for everything good that had happened in the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry that I\u2019ve doubted myself and thus God in recent months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he hasn\u2019t stopped blessing me so abundantly this week.\u201d \u201cI can\u2019t stop sobbing-but I\u2019m doing it in private in first class on @emirates,\u201d Thusi wrote.<\/p>\n<p>She recalled seeing Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah at the BET Awards and getting down on her knees to greet them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no picture because it didn\u2019t feel right-I wanted more than just a picture.\u201d I just told myself that one day I wanted them to know my name and that one day I wanted to work with them. I simply thanked them for being an inspiration to me. They humbly took my hands in theirs and nodded.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: #d-trends (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Latifah, an American actress and rapper, has moved South African actress Pearl Thusi to tears after she sent her a shout-out complimenting her work in the industry, specifically her acting in \u201cQueen Sono.\u201d Thusi, who couldn\u2019t believe her eyes, posted a video of herself crying while watching Latifah\u2019s shout-out on Instagram. Pearl Thusi, what\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":998770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}