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Blonde bombshell Jackie Siegel, best known for her Bravo documentary The Queen of Versailles, which has been turned into a Broadway musical, exclusively spoke to RadarOnline.com to defend the musical's star, Kristin Chenoweth, against the backlash she's received for supporting Charlie Kirk.
Asked if the rumors are true in the interview, published Nov. 3, Chenoweth first acknowledged the source of the hearsay that has long-swirled about her and Menzel, 54, telling THR, "We are so different in the way we do our process that of course rumors are going to fly, right?"
The actress went viral for comments in which she said she "appreciated some perspectives" of the late right-wing activist.Kristin Chenoweth is reflecting on the "tough" time after her not so popular comments about the death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk angered her fanbase for seemingly alluding to agreeing with some of his extremist views.
Kristin Chenoweth has addressed the backlash she faced after commenting on the death of controversial activist Charlie Kirk. “It nearly broke me, and that’s all I’m going to say,” she said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published on Monday.
And this time, her character is far from a good witch. She's playing shopaholic one-percenter Jackie Siegal - wife of time-share king David Siegel, played by F. Murray Abraham - in a lavish musical adaptation of the 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles. The music and lyrics are by Stephen Schwartz, the man behind Wicked.