Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then-- as long as your closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

On April 1 2013 however it was announced that Orlando Jones would be replacing Perry in playing the "Madea" role in "A Madea Christmas. " She took him to task for his Madea character saying that through this "the country has laughed at one of the most important members of the black community: Mother Dear the beloved matriarch. Criticism
Criticism of Perry’s work focuses mainly on a perception that it perpetuates negative racial stereotypes.

Perry is best known for both creating and performing in drag the Madea character a giant overreactive and thuggishly tough elderly woman. His career with conventional onsite films began in 2005 with Diary of a Mad Black Woman which features the character Madea his claim to fame. ".