[2][citation needed] After high school, Vidale worked as a waitress in Pasadena, Texas[2] before friends encouraged her to be a comedian.
[2] Vidale's most prominent featured role on a TV series was as the title character, a single mother, on the short-lived 1993 sitcom Thea.
[citation needed] She was regularly a judge on the BET comedy competition TV series Comic View.
Vidale made a guest appearance, playing a hairdresser, in the episode "Queens for a Day" (2007) of the television series Ugly Betty.
She has performed in feature films such as 1995's Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, Jerry Springer's Ringmaster[2] in 1998, and the 2006 Master P comedy Repos.
[10] Over the next several weeks, "Momma Benjamin" was involved in several backstage skits resulting in her challenging wrestlers to matches on Shelton's behalf.
After he turned back to finish the match (which he won), Momma Benjamin fainted to the ground, prompting EMTs to rush to her side and wheel her backstage.
Momma Benjamin returned to Raw the next week,[15] but with an oxygen tank attached to her wheelchair that started being used as a weapon, especially on the February 20 episode when she led Shelton to winning the WWE Intercontinental Championship, in the process turning them both heel.
[4] On October 21, 2010, Vidale was a guest on The Howard Stern Show, where she announced she had decided to have gastric bypass surgery because she had developed complications resulting from type 2 diabetes.