Audra McDonald is responding with shock to Patti LuPone‘s latest interview with The New Yorker by which LuPone shaded McDonald and revealed the 2 had an obvious falling out and are not buddies.

“I imply, if there’s a rift between us, I don’t know what it’s,” McDonald advised Gayle King on “CBS Mornings” when requested if she was “shocked” by LuPone’s remark. “That’s one thing you’d need to ask Patti about.”

“I haven’t seen her in about 11 years as a result of I’ve been busy with life and stuff,” McDonald added. “So, I don’t know what rift she’s speaking about. You’d need to ask her.”

Within the unique interview, LuPone stated “she’s not a pal” when McDonald’s title was introduced up by interviewer Michael Schulman. McDonald is a Tony nominee this 12 months for enjoying Rose in “Gypsy,” a job that beforehand received LuPone a Tony.

The 2 actors’ alleged feud was introduced up as LuPone was reflecting on an incident that occurred final fall when she was on Broadway in “The Roommate.” LuPone filed a grievance as noise from the musical subsequent door, “Hell’s Kitchen,” could possibly be heard in her theater. “Hell’s Kitchen” Tony winner Kecia Lewis posted a video slamming LuPone’s conduct as “bullying” and “racially microaggressive.” Lewis added that LuPone was “rooted in privilege” and known as out LuPone for labeling “a Black present loud.” McDonald favored Lewis’ video.

“Precisely,” LuPone advised The New Yorker. “And I believed, ‘It’s best to know higher.’ That’s typical of Audra. She’s not a pal.”

When Schulman then requested LuPone for her ideas on McDonald’s manufacturing of “Gypsy,” LuPone stared again at him “in silence for fifteen seconds” and proceeded to look out the window and say: “What an exquisite day.”

 LuPone and McDonald labored collectively in 2007 on the Los Angeles Opera’s manufacturing of “Rise and Fall of the Metropolis of Mahagonny” and in 2000 for the New York Philharmonic’s live performance model of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Avenue.”

Watch McDonald’s interview on “CBS Mornings” within the video beneath.