Audra McDonald is speaking out in response to Patti LuPone‘s claims that there’s a “rift” between them.
Patti has received a lot of backlash from the Broadway community for comments she made in a new New Yorker profile, including what she said about Audra.
Patti bashed Audra for supporting Kecia Lewis‘ complaints that Patti was “racially microaggressive” to ask the Broadway show Hell’s Kitchen to lower their sound because it could be heard in her theater for The Roommate.
“I thought, ‘You should know better.’ That’s typical of Audra. She’s not a friend,” Patti said in the profile, adding that they had a “long-ago rift.”
So, what did Audra say?
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“If there’s a rift between us, I don’t know what it is,” Audra said on CBS Sunday Mornings. “That’s something you’d have to ask Patti about. You know, I haven’t seen her in about 11 years just because we’ve been busy just with life. So I don’t know what rift she’s talking about, but you’d have to ask her.”
Watch the clip below!
Audra is currently getting rave reviews for her work as Rose in the musical Gypsy. The last time the show was on Broadway was in 2008 when Patti played the role and won a Tony Award for her performance.
Source: justjared.com