Tyler Perry’s upcoming collection Divorced Sistas follows 5 pals — Rasheda (LeToya Luckett), Geneva (Khadeen Indréa), Naomi (Porscha Coleman), Tiffany (Briana Worth) and Bridgette (Jennifer Sears) — who’re navigating the ebbs and flows of affection and life whereas being established profession girls.
On the Friday evening premiere of the collection, Perry shared with The Hollywood Reporter, “These girls are robust, highly effective, extra mature, been by the woes of relationships and the ups and downs of marriage, and so they discover themselves in peculiar conditions.”
Peculiar — but relatable — conditions embrace their private obstacles by relationships like divorce and tensions inside their very own sister circle, the place “them sticking collectively is what will get them by it,” he stated.
Whereas viewers at house might doubtlessly see themselves in every character, in the course of the panel dialogue the actresses shared the methods they particularly relate to the battles their characters are going through.
“I feel youthful Khadeen, possibly in her teenagers and twenties, can relate to Geneva in that she was very a lot anxious about what everybody thinks about her,” Indréa shared. “Due to that, she is continually dwelling in a facade and she or he is displaying up as a consultant of herself to an extent.”
From left: Anaja Smith (Moderator), LeToya Luckett, Khadeen Indréa, Porscha Coleman, Briana Worth and Jennifer Sears communicate onstage in the course of the BET+ Tyler Perry’s ‘Divorced Sistas‘ Los Angeles premiere at NeueHouse Hollywood on June 06, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photograph by Robin L Marshall/Getty Pictures for BET+)
Coleman added, “Regardless that you see Naomi come out and she or he’s going to maintain it actual … there’s so many moments too in so many scenes later the place she lastly has her breaking factors. I feel what that taught me simply as a person is, in fact, be fearless, but in addition be OK to only present the actual you.”
Vulnerability was a subject of the evening, the place every actress onstage described how the collection gave their character the area to reside out and handle the worry of displaying up authentically.
“I simply suppose that for every of those characters’ defining traits, there’s an reverse facet that’s consultant of their worry,” Worth defined. “For my character, she’s very fascinated by everyone else. I feel that she has a worry of really herself.”
Indréa added: “[Geneva] wants to know that she’s human. … And being trustworthy about that may actually prevent a whole lot of heartache and turmoil and the heartache and turmoil with these round you, in the event you simply be clear.”
In the identical universe as Perry’s unique collection Sistas (and with crossover potential), the eight-episode BET+ collection highlights and challenges themes of beginning over, visibility and what it means to be robust.
Sears defined, “We have now to attempt to combat in opposition to the entire ‘robust Black lady’ trope. We all the time really feel like we have now to be robust. After which there’s no alternative so that you can be fragile or susceptible.”
She continued, “Not simply as a magnificence normal, Black girls, we need to really feel seen, we need to really feel heard, we need to be revered, we need to be protected. And sadly that’s not occurring sufficient.”
From left: LeToya Luckett, Khadeen Indréa, Porscha Coleman, Briana Worth and Jennifer Sears pose onstage in the course of the BET+ Tyler Perry’s ‘Divorced Sistas’ Los Angeles premiere at NeueHouse Hollywood on June 06, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photograph by Robin L Marshall/Getty Pictures for BET+)
However it’s the sisterhood circle, Luckett stated, that retains her character — who’s coping with perfectionism and upholding the picture of being a pastor’s spouse — grounded. “I feel Rasheeda is simply making an attempt to maintain it collectively as finest she will, however I feel she’s additionally on the verge of breaking,” she defined. “She will all the time lean on her sisters and so they know her. They’ve been understanding her 20 years-plus, and she will preserve it actual with them.”
Whereas the drama reveals a layered sisterhood onscreen, the women shared in the course of the dialogue that additionally they developed a bond in actual life.
“We held one another down no matter what got here our method,” Indréa stated. “We had been going to cope with it collectively head-on. That was in all probability an important half to me.”
Luckett defined, “I really feel like we’re very intentional about displaying up for one another, loving one another, being actual and ensuring that we maintain one another accountable. You’ll see that all through the collection.”
As for Perry’s tackle the performances, he stated: “I feel the primary two episodes are simply the warm-up, however when this factor begins taking off, all I’ll say is, maintain on. They ship.”
Divorced Sistas will premiere on Monday on BET after the 2025 BET Awards and can be accessible to stream on BET+ beginning Tuesday.