At one point, Henson told a story about living in a “rich area” in Chicago in a building full of white families.

“Before I got Cookie [her role on Empire], I remember I walked into the elevator,” Henson recalled. “I own in this building – I was not renting. I own. And I was wearing Chanel head-to-toe. Very classy. This older white couple gets on, and it was very uncomfortable. I felt that nasty stare from the husband… He looked at me as if I should be dead, like, ‘What the fuck are you doing in this building?’”

She continued: “Now, they will never treat me like that because they know who I am, but people who are not Taraji P Henson deal with that every day. And I don’t like it because I don’t know who I’m dealing with – are you being nice to me because I’m Cookie or because you really like me?”

Taraji P Henson wants everyone to know what to look for in a therapist