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Audra McDonald Breaks Silence On Patti LuPone’s ‘Rift’ Claim — And Adds 1 Major Detail

10 27
30.05.2025

Audra McDonald and Patti LuPone

It turns out that Patti LuPone’s alleged feud with fellow Broadway icon Audra McDonald may be one-sided.

On Thursday, CBS Mornings unveiled a teaser video of Gayle King’s upcoming interview with Audra, who received her 11th Tony Award nomination for the current Broadway revival of Gypsy, in which she makes history as the first Black actor to portray Momma Rose.

In the interview, set to air next week, Gayle asks the musical theatre star for her response to Patti’s claim, which appeared in a recent bombshell profile in The New Yorker, that there’s a rift between the two actors.

“If there’s a rift between us, I don’t know what it is,” Audra told the interviewer. “That’s something you’d have to ask Patti about.”

She went on to note: “You know, I haven’t seen her in about 11 years just because we’ve been busy, just with life and stuff. So, I don’t know what rift she’s talking about, but you’d have to ask her.”

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