It’s almost hard to believe that actress Taraji P. Henson has an 18 year old  son.

Earlier this week, she was spotted outside of NBC Studios rocking red and  black as she arrived to the ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’ show. While there,  she chatted it up about her son Marcell who was recently accepted into college.  Unfortunately for him, Taraji has refused to pay for his education until he  realizes how hard it really is out here in the real world.  So to teach him  a lesson, she made him set out his first semester and get a job.

Taraji told Fallon:

Even though he is privileged, he doesn’t remember the bad times when we were  eating Hamburger Helper (boxed food) and peanut butter and jelly, he remembers  all the good times. I don’t want to raise this privileged kid, who’s out of  touch, so I made him sit out the first semester and he has to get a job. He  called his grandmother, he was like, ‘It’s hard out here, it’s hard to find a job.’ So I was like, ‘Yeah, I need you to know  that.

I need him to see how real it is out here. It builds character. I told  him, ‘College is like an investment.  I’m investing my money in your future,  and if I feel like you’re a bad investment, I’m taking my money back.

Talk about tough love.   Watch the interview below: