'Hollywood Divas' Paula Jai Parker Reveals She's Embarrassed And Ashamed About Her Homelessness And Welfare Status — Is Her Husband, Forrest Martin, To Blame?

Hollywood Divas reality star Paula Jai Parker is facing the music and spilling all the tea about her family life, and her living situation, and money woes.

When it comes to Hollywood, Parker claims she was "blackballed." In a new Interview with Essence Parker exposes some of her "so-called" friends, and relives her troubling times.

When the magazine asked Parker about being "blackballed," in Hollywood Parker explained the meaning behind it:

It's very difficult to explain. Hollywood is very cliquish. Working is about having relationships. It’s more about who you know, who you don't know, who you're friends with, who you're not friends with. Me being out of the loop kept me from being able to work. It left me being out of the circle."

People use the example that I did Idlewild right after Hustle & Flow. But if you pay attention, I've been a working actress for over 20 years. After that particular movie, you didn't see me very much. You can ask anyone on the Idlewild set as far as the executives go there were phone calls made concerning me and that movie.

Parker's resume seemed to be pretty lengthly but to her it seems that it wasn't enough, she claims that she did independent work as her hustle.

Right, I worked independently. I've always been a hustler. As far as I'm concerned my God is bigger than man. I've been blackballed at least three times in my career literally. Each time, I've continued to flourish. Because I don't sit around and wait for somebody to call me up and say I've got a job for you. After Idlewild I had to start from scratch. I had to go to auditions with little girls that I'd never seen before if I expected to get back in the game. I had to do independent films that were paying me less $100 a day.

Fans of the new reality show are now aware that Parker and her family were homeless, the struggling actress claims that her husband, Forrest Martin wasn't too happy with her decision to let the world know their circumstances.

"Of course not. In this season of our lives this is what we were going through. There is no coincidence. I am not the only person going through homelessness ... I am not the only person in America right now on unemployment. I am not the only person receiving benefits that Mr. Barack Obama made possible for us."

She continued:

As I stood in those food stamp lines and humbled myself and did what I had to do for my son ... [she starts crying] I did it because I want other people to know that they are not alone. It’s a national issue. I genuinely believe that God wanted me to talk about it. I just have to have courage and know that it was the right thing. My husband trusted that. I really respect that because he is a private person. It was still an embarrassing situation for my whole family, not just my husband but my nieces, cousins, in-laws. The majority of our family found out on national television like the rest of the world. I genuinely believe that this is something I'm supposed to be doing. I'm supposed to be sharing the struggle because we're all in the struggle.

So how did Paula and her family become homeless, where did all her fortune and fame go?

 I don't feel like I made a lot of money. There are only about three percent of actors in the entertainment industry that are able to provide for themselves without getting a day job. People are under the assumption that actors make a whole grip. But from all of my career, the most money I made was on an ABC TV show. With that money I was able to buy a home. I bought a condo. After I bought the condo, we only did one season.

That money was gone. I invested it. Actors — especially black actresses — we don't make that much money. The majority of the films that I've been in, even though they've been successful, they were independent film. Residual checks aren't what they used to be. You can ask any actor. I've gotten a residual check back for $0.00, and they genuinely sent the check to me in the mail. Another fallacy about Hollywood is that we're all out here living like stars. These cars that we drive aren't ours. It's all smoke and mirrors. A lot of these reality shows that you're watching, the homes that they're renting for the show, they aren't going to be in after the show wraps. I'm strong enough and honest enough to tell you the real. Actors don't make that much money. We really don't."

Hollywood Divas airs every Wednesday night at 10 p.m. ET on TVOne. CLICK HERE for more of the Interview.