#DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN DRIVER#
#DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN TRIAL#

Brenda chooses to let Charles die, but Helen, still Charles's legal wife, tells the doctor to do everything possible for him.Ĭharles recovers, returns home with Helen, and resumes verbally abusing her, but Helen takes the opportunity to retaliate for years of neglect, verbal, emotional, and physical abuse by not only physically humiliating him, but also by revealing that Brenda finally showed her true colors by not only opting to let Charles die, but also by emptying his bank account and leaving with their boys during his hospitalization. The doctor says Charles might be permanently paralyzed and asks if they should resuscitate him if things deteriorate.

Before she can respond, she sees the shooting on the news and goes to the hospital with Brian. While being led out of the courtroom, Jamison snatches the bailiff's gun and shoots Charles in the back for failing to get him acquitted. In the shooting case, despite Charles' efforts, the jury convicts Jamison. In divorce court, Helen lets Charles keep all the money and property, provided he pay Brian's attorney fees and continue paying for her mother Myrtle Jean's stay in a nursing home since he made her place her there Charles agrees to both terms.

#DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN TRIAL#

Meanwhile, career criminal Jamison Milton Jackson asks Charles to defend him in his trial for shooting an undercover cop during a drug deal and to possibly bribe the judge $300,000 to rule in his favor, revealing that Charles received most of his money through drug deals and buying off judges. Helen cultivates a relationship with Orlando. Fearing that Tiffany will turn to drugs like her mother, Brian refuses until Madea convinces him otherwise, encouraging him to also fix his relationship with Debrah. Judge Mablean Ephriam places Madea, a repeat offender, under house arrest and sets a $5,000 property or cash bond for Helen.īrian kicks his addict wife Debrah out of their home, causing him to have a strained relationship with their daughter, Tiffany, who wants to join the church choir. Joe's attorney son Brian defends Madea and Helen after Charles and Brenda catch the pair breaking into and vandalizing the marital home.

Madea takes Helen in and helps her get back on her feet, upsetting Madea's brother Joe.

#DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN DRIVER#

Helen kicks the driver Orlando out of the truck and visits her intimidating grandmother Madea. On the evening of their 18th wedding anniversary, Helen arrives home to find all her belongings in a U-Haul, and that Charles is abandoning her for his young mistress Brenda, the mother of his two sons. Despite seemingly perfect lives, Charles is actually distant, verbally and physically abusive, and has been having multiple affairs, while Helen is unemployed, bored at home, and desperately trying to make her marriage work.

Helen Simmons-McCarter and her attorney husband Charles McCarter have money, success, and a fine home.

Diary of a mad black woman