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Gabourey Sidibe said she thought Raven-Symoné didn’t like her early in their careers
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Sidibe made the comments during the Thursday, Nov. 5 episode of Symoné’s podcast Tea Time w/ Raven and Miranda
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Raven-Symoné said she felt jealous of Sidibe’s fashion and acting opportunities after her acclaimed role in Precious in 2009
Gabourey Sidibe called out Raven-Symoné for allegedly telling people not to be friends with her when they were both early in their acting careers.
Sidibe, 43, made the comments during an appearance on the That’s So Raven alum’s podcast Tea Time w/ Raven and Miranda on Thursday, Nov. 5. During the episode, Symoné revealed that she was “jealous” of Sidibe, who worked with stylists and designers after gaining critical acclaim for her role in Lee Daniels’ Precious in 2009, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
“Because when I was growing up in the industry, no one dressed me. I wasn’t able to do fashion icons, really, like you, I had to go buy my stuff,” Symoné, 40, recounted.
“Can we get into this? Because you’ve never been fat, and that is what bugs me,” Sidibe said. “Because you had big boobs. That’s different than being plus.”
“I was a 16, I was a 10, I was a 12, 13, I went all the way up to 16,” Symoné replied.
“It was the darkest of times,” Sidibe recalled of the fashion industry’s lack of size inclusivity at the time, as Symoné agreed.
“I remember when you came on the scene, and you were embraced, and I was like, wow, I’m not, she is,” the Disney Channel alum recalled of her feelings at the time. “[I thought], ‘Congratulations, thank you for knocking down doors,’ and I’m also, like, angry.”
Gabourey Sidibe on ‘Tea Time with Raven and Miranda’
Credit: Tea Time With Raven and Miranda
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“Girl, I didn’t think you liked me,” Sidibe said with a laugh. When Symoné asked why she had that impression, she quipped, “Because you treated me like you didn’t like me.”
“I was actually here like, ‘What’s up? I’m going to be on whatever time [you’re] on,’ ” Sidibe added.
Symoné’s wife and co-host, Miranda Maday, then chimed in and encouraged them to hash out the past, pointing to their interactions during a 2015 episode of Empire, in which Symoné guest-starred.
“I was told that you made some people promise to not be friends with me,” Sidibe said, with the people in question’s names being bleeped in the podcast. “I was told that you made some folks promise not to be friends with me.”
Sidibe then recalled a cast outing at a restaurant in Chicago, where she “felt like [Symoné was] put off by me.”
Maday, 39, then joked that her wife “can be shady.”
“She can be shady, she can be petty, but she’s not the type of person who would ever go behind someone’s back and be like ‘don’t be friends with her,'” Maday said. “She doesn’t have that much energy to give to someone else or something.”
Gabourey Sidibe (left) and Raven-Symoné (right) on ‘Tea Time with Raven and Miranda’
Credit: Tea Time With Raven and Miranda
“What I would say is, like, ‘Don’t bring her around me,’ ” Symoné admitted, adding that she had “a lot of chips on my shoulders” at the time.
Maday then said that Symoné can “come off very cold and very distant” when she does not know someone, adding that “it’s from a place of not knowing and not being sure that she’s going to open up.”
Symoné and Sidibe then appeared to move past their prior miscommunications, and Maday even invited Sidibe to a Pilates class, noting that they are neighbors. The podcast also posted a clip from the discussion on Instagram, adding the caption, “Consider the beef squashed.”
New episodes of Tea Time with Raven and Miranda are released weekly on Thursdays.
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