Regardless of the amount of pay she received, she would have had a Netflix comedy special just like Rock, Chappelle, Shumer, Ansari, Kat Williams, Kevin Hart, etc.
She devalued her already sickly brand by going public with how much Netflix was paying her.
This isn't going to go the way she wants. This was a huge blunder.
Considering that we all know how she burned bridges with Tyler Perry, Lee Daniels and Oprah, and seeing how she hasn't worked in ages, her making that dollar amount public makes it look like she is so unmanageable, irritating and undesirable that $500,000 is all she is worth right now.
If she hadn't gone public with that 500k dollar amount, no one would have known and been talking about it. Folks would've just been like, "Cool, a Mo'Nique concert."
She could have taken that 500k, and given a 10 million dollar critically acclaimed performance and used that performance to negotiate a higher fee for her next televised concert from Netflix and/or other networks.
But now...