"We hugged, cried, made up and picked up where we left off, " Mo'Nique said.

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"I'm shaking when I tell y'all I'm in the midst of my dream, " Mo'Nique said.

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The best supporting actor and actress awards were collected by Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds and Mo'Nique for Precious respectively.

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Mo'Nique carried home both the Golden Globe and SAG trophies last month.

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San Fernando Valley resident Eddie Satterfield, whose best female friend is Academy Award-winning actress Mo'Nique, remembers some particularly trying times in their friendship.

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As Eddie and Mo'Nique's breakup and makeup shows, friendships between gay men and straight women aren't that different from same-sex friendships or sibling relationships.

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The riveting film "Precious" yielded a best supporting actress win for African-American performer Mo'Nique, and the first ever statuette for an African-American screenwriter in the best adapted screenplay category went to Geoffrey Fletcher.

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Two of her ex-husbands were jealous of his relationship with Mo'Nique, even though he was gay, says Eddie, who has been friends with the comic star since 1989, when they were phone operators in Baltimore.

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Mo'Nique is now happily married a third time to Sidney Hicks, but the disagreement she had with Eddie during the divorce from her second husband almost ended their treasured friendship until Eddie wooed her back with emotional mixtapes.

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