Leighton Meester has finally spoken about the viral moment with Ariana Grande at the Critics Choice Awards.
During the January ceremony The bad star was spotted telling Meester: “I love you so much. Wow, wow wow” after their meeting on the red carpet.
The clip later went viral after Meester was seen laughing repeating the phrase “Wow, wow, wow,” sparking speculation that she was making fun of Grande.
Now, weeks after the incident, Meester has cleared up the misunderstanding while speaking to her former Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley on Podcrushed.
She explained that she misheard Grande talking about her emotional moment when her husband Adam Brody won an award in a stinging way last year.
“I was with Kate, [my publicist]’, Meester recalled of the first meeting at the Critics Choice Awards. ‘And [Ariana] said something to me. And then Kate turns around, and we both heard that [Ariana said]’Hello, I love you. Wa, wa, wa.”
“I couldn’t hear her. She walked away. And I thought, ‘Oh, she’s like a comedy queen. She’s just funny.’ Like, ‘I love you. Wow, Wow, Wow.’ I thought this would be something she would do. And so I thought, ‘Oh, my God, that’s cute and funny.'”
She later realized her confusion and clarified her response to Grande during their new meeting next week.
“It turns out she didn’t say that,” Meester recalled, “and then I saw her the next week, and I thought, ‘I gotta tell you, I thought, [you said that].”
Meester added, “And she said, ‘Did you think I said, ‘wah, wah, wah?’ That’s so funny.’ And I thought, ‘No, it’s an old person who can’t hear.’ That, for example, is so embarrassing.”
