Earlier this week, Tyler Perry was forced to file a restraining order against one of his employees after a bizarre standoff at the Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta.
In a detailed message to his Facebook fans – that has since been removed from the page – Tyler Perry explains exactly what happened.
Here’s an excerpt:
“I get a call from the president of my studio. He called me to tell me that there was an employee at the studio who was behaving strangely. I asked who it was and he said I wouldn’t know him because he works in production. Well, he was right. I didn’t know him.
TPS is a 60-acre campus that looks a lot like a small college. There are 400 employees working there. He works in a department that I have no firsthand dealings with.
This young man wasn’t fired and didn’t get into it with anyone at the studio. He just decided that he wanted to meet me. So he came up to the executive office. The accountant that he said this to was scared by it, so she called security. In the 15 seconds that it took for them to get upstairs to look for him, he seemed to have vanished. His supervisor and coworkers said that he had been acting strange all morning. Security continued the search for this young man. After 45 minutes they heard him inside of the sheetrock walls. He had somehow climbed into the drop ceiling and made his way into an empty office. He barricaded himself inside and refused to come out of the office until he met me.
It took the police about 4 hours to get him to come out of the office. At one point they thought they were going to have to call the SWAT team because they didn’t know if he had weapons. After he was arrested they searched the small office he had barricaded himself in, and he had left his headshot on the wall with a note to me saying ‘I believe in your leadership’.”
