“Give him my regards,” Barbra mentioned of Melissa’s pal, earlier than taking a stunning pivot and asking her: “Did you’re taking Ozempic?”
This remark was swiftly deleted, however not earlier than it was broadly shared on-line, with the two-time Oscar winner later insisting she “simply wished to pay” her pal and former collaborator “a praise”.
“I forgot the world is studying!” she added in a press release posted on X (previously Twitter).
She has since made an try to shut down the dialog with a publish on her Instagram on Wednesday morning.
Posting a photograph of herself studying {a magazine} with a classic Babs picture on the duvet, Melissa insisted: “The takeaway – Barbra Streisand is aware of I exist, she reached out to me, and he or she thought I regarded good.”
“I win the day,” she added with a smile.
Melissa additionally captioned the publish: “@Barbrastreisand fan membership members solely!!!”
Barbra and Melissa beforehand labored collectively on the music and display legend’s 2016 album Encore: Film Companions Sing Broadway.
The 2 recorded a duet of the traditional showtune Something You Can Do, taken from the musical Annie Get Your Gun.
