Keke Palmer recently shared a story about a run-in with Nicki Minaj at the Met Gala.
The actress and singer, 31, admitted she feared being called out by the Super Bass rapper during the event earlier this year.
Keke Palmer recounted the encounter during her appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night.
“So we’re at the Met Gala, and I was with Marc Jacobs and he was talking with Charlie Jacobs and Nicki Minaj over to the corner,” the Nope star explained. “I know Nicki because on DM (direct message) she connected me to (photographer) David LaChapelle for my baby shower photos. So I wanted to tell her in person, thank you, you know?”
“And so I walk over there and she’s in the middle of talking to them. She’s like… ‘You, I need to talk to you. Hold on,'” Keke continued, imitating the Super Freaky Girl rapper’s trademark New York-via-Trinidad accent.
The former Nickelodeon star then remembered thinking, “I done did something! Nicki about to cuss me out at the Met Gala.”
Keke Palmer explained that instead of calling her out, Nicki – who is known for publicly ripping her enemies – gave her some advice.
“Look, I don’t read the press. I don’t know everything that’s goin’ on,” Palmer said in her Nicki voice. “But I just wanna tell you, nobody knows what it’s like when we turn off the lights and we gotta be with ourselves. So you do whatever you need to do to be good witchu.”
Pleasantly surprised, Keke Palmer told host Jimmy Fallon she thanked Nicki for the advice, adding, “I was not expecting that!”
The actress is currently promoting her recently released memoir, Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative.
