Don’t come for Sherri.
Sherri Shepherd received right into a confrontation with an “unnamed celebrity” on the star-studded “Othello” opening evening on Broadway on Sunday, she revealed on her speak present the subsequent day.
“I wanna talk about this unnamed celebrity and what she did to me,” Shepherd, 57, advised her dwell viewers.
A supply advised Web page Six on Monday that Nia Lengthy was allegedly the celeb in query. Like Shepherd, Lengthy, 54, took photos on the pink carpet.
The Submit reached out to Lengthy’s rep for remark however didn’t instantly hear again.
“I get along with everybody. I really do,” Shepherd mentioned. “So I’m standing there, and I was talking to Khadeen and Devale Ellis, and Devale Ellis is on ‘Sisters.’ So this unnamed celebrity actress, who shall remain nameless, I’m standing there talking, somebody grabbed my arm, and they forcefully turned me around.”
The actress and comic mentioned she was “in a good mood,” so she gave the particular person a pleasant greeting — which wasn’t reciprocated.
“She says to me, she goes, ‘You’ve been shading me a lot.’ That’s what she said to me,” Shepherd recalled.
“I said to her, ‘No, I haven’t.’ Because I was really confused,” she added. “And she goes, ‘Yes, you have.’ And then she just walked off.”
The speak present host went on, “Now, let me tell you something. First of all, I know who I shade because I don’t shade many people. It might be one person I shade. And I never have shaded this unnamed celebrity.”
“And so she came up to me in front of everybody going, ‘You shaded me.’ And then she walks off. So I was mad. I was really mad, and I said, ‘You know what? You don’t freaking get to do that to me,’” Shepherd added.
So, she went to the toilet throughout intermission and waited there for quarter-hour for the celeb, who by no means confirmed up.
“You wanna tell me I shaded you? No, no. You don’t get to pull me and turn me around like we in a dang gone cartoon, and then you walk away,” Shepherd mentioned.
Since she didn’t get to hash issues out with the celeb instantly, Shepherd shared a message for them on her present.
“I would say to unnamed celebrity, because you think I shaded you — which means you watch my show — I don’t know who you think I am,” she mentioned. “I think you get me confused with somebody, one of the bloggers or the influencers, because I know I didn’t shade you.”
“Matter of fact, when something scandalous came up about you, I was on your side when it happened,” the “30 Rock” alum added. “So I would say to unnamed celebrity, because we’ve known each other [for a] long time, come sit on my couch so we can talk about it.”
“And you know who you are!” Shepherd concluded to the digicam.
The primary official “Othello” present starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal on the Barrymore Theatre in New York Metropolis this weekend was a star-studded affair.
The feminine celebs in attendance included Katie Holmes, Martha Stewart, Nicole Scherzinger, Jennifer Lopez, Ariana DeBose, Cynthia Nixon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Angela Bassett, Danielle Brooks, Sunny Hostin, Anna Wintour, Rosie Perez, Nicole Ari Parker, Deborah Roberts, Jennifer Nettles, Gayle King and Kandi Burruss.
Spike Lee, Colman Domingo, Blair Underwood, Peter Dinklage, Keegan-Michael Key and Joe and Jill Biden have been additionally on the present.
