Long before Tiffany Haddish had her breakout role in the 2017 comedy Girls Trip, she was a “homeless” actress who never received a penny from the first movie she ever filmed — despite being promised a paycheck.

While speaking in a video interview with the Associated Press, Haddish looked back on the early days of her career — and how she wasn’t compensated for some of her work.

“My very first movie I ever did that I was the star in, I was homeless while I was shooting that movie,” she explained. “They were supposed to pay me $1,200 to do the movie. I wasn’t in the union. It was non-union film so there was nothing I could do about it.”

Haddish alleged, “They never paid me. They never paid me a dime. The producers gave me 10 DVDs and said, ‘Sell those. Good luck.’ I never saw the movie.”

When Girls Trip — which also starred Regina Hall, Queen Latifah and Jada Pinkett Smith — came out in 2017, it brought forth a heightened interest in Haddish’s previous work. Despite her original movie eventually making its way to “BET,” “VH1” and “streaming,” she said she was still never paid.

“It’s everywhere that movie!” she said. “I don’t get a dime. It’s the second worst movie I was ever in. Not a penny.”

While Haddish didn’t disclose exactly which movie she was talking about, her IMDb page lists her first-ever film as The Urban Demographic — which was released in 2005. Her comments also come amid the ongoing Hollywood strikes with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and SAG-AFTRA — both of whom are fighting for streaming residuals, among other demands.

Last year, Haddish — who recently starred in Disney’s Haunted Mansion remake — revealed that she had used the $80,000 she made from Girls Trip to pay off her house, which she bought before filming the second season of The Carmichael Show.

“People told me to spend it in other ways, but I used it to pay off the house because I was always afraid of being homeless again,” she told Cosmopolitan. “Now I have a surplus of money, but I’m still afraid of being poor again. Every movie I made, I would just buy another piece of land or a house.”