The Shakespeare play unfolding onstage wasn’t the one drama within the constructing on Sunday through the opening evening of “Othello,” starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal on Broadway.
Talking on her discuss present the subsequent day, Sherri Shepherd revealed that whereas attending the large evening, an unnamed celeb confronted her resulting in a barely heated change.
“I wanna speak about this unnamed celeb and what she did to me,” the 57-year-old discuss present host instructed her dwell viewers as a nonetheless from the play appeared behind her.
Shepherd recalled attending opening evening and chatting with notables from Black Hollywood, together with Devale Ellis and his spouse Khadeen, when the “unnamed celeb” approached and grabbed Shepherd’s arm and forcefully turned her round.
“I’m in a superb temper. So I’m going, ‘Hello, what’s occurring?’ As a result of I do know her. And he or she says to me, she goes, ‘You’ve been shading me lots,’” Shepherd defined, including that when she turned confused by the unnamed celeb’s accusation, she pushed again. The unnamed celeb insisted Shepherd had been shading her not too long ago earlier than Shepherd stated she walked off.
The preliminary encounter left Shepherd so “mad” that by the present’s intermission, she was prepared for one more encounter, solely this time within the girls’ room.
“I used to be actually mad, and I stated, You understand what? You don’t freaking get to try this to me. So I went to the toilet throughout intermission, I stood there for quarter-hour ready for a gathering within the girls’ room,” she stated semi-jokingly. “Individuals get stuff confused. I’m so candy. I’m a praying particular person. If you happen to want some, I’ll provide you with some scriptures. I’ll make you’re feeling good. However I’m additionally from Chicago, okay? I don’t play like that.”
Shepherd believes that the unnamed celeb might have confused her for another person as a result of she genuinely has not shaded this particular person on her present or another platform of hers.
“Matter of reality, when one thing scandalous got here up about you, I used to be in your facet when it occurred,” Shepherd stated, addressing the unnamed celeb. “So I’d say to the unnamed celeb, as a result of we’ve identified one another a very long time, come sit on my sofa so we will speak about it.”
Whereas she didn’t title her, a supply reportedly instructed Web page Six that the unnamed celeb was actress Nia Lengthy. Nevertheless, Shepherd’s co-host and bestie, Jawn Murray, famous that the unnamed celeb in query is likely to be from Chicago like Shepherd, whereas Lengthy is from Brooklyn.
Many celebrities attended the star-studded opening evening, together with Angela Bassett, Nicole Ari Parker, Danielle Brooks, Sunny Hostin, Gayle King, Ariana DeBose, Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Martha Stewart, Jill and Joe Biden, and “Othello” co-producer Kandi Burruss.
