LuPone's allusion to a feud between the two Broadway actors was among several eyebrow-raising comments made in a bombshell New Yorker profile.

McDonald was just nominated for a Tony for playing Rose in Gypsy, a role that LuPone previously won a Tony for. When the latter was also asked about McDonald’s current production of Gypsy, Schulman wrote that LuPone stared at him for 15 seconds in silence, before turning to look out the window and sighing, “What a beautiful day.”

Audra McDonald broke her silence Thursday on fellow Broadway vet Patti LuPone's viral New Yorker interview, in which the "Agatha All Along" star said that she and McDonald are not friends and appeared salty about her current Tony-nominated staging of "Gypsy.