Actress Melissa McCarthy knows a compliment when she hears it.
“The takeaway, Barbra Streisand knows I exist. She reached out to me, and she thought I looked good! I win the day,” McCarthy said in a post on Instagram per the Hollywood Reporter.
McCarthy’s post is in response to a comment Streisand made on a photo of McCarthy with director Adam Shankman at the Center Theatre Group’s CTG The Gala event in Los Angeles.
Streisand said, “Give him my regards did you take Ozempic?”
Although the post was deleted, some followers captured the comment, leaving Streisand to explain she was just paying McCarthy a compliment.
“OMG — I went on Instagram to see the photos we’d posted of the beautiful flowers I’d received for my birthday! Below them was a photo of my friend Melissa McCarthy who I sang with on my Encore album,” Streisand on X, formerly Twitter. “She looked fantastic! I just wanted to pay her a compliment. I forgot the world was reading!”
Ozempic is a prescription drug used to treat diabetes. Recently , it has gained popularity as a weight loss drug.
McCarthy and Streisand did a duet of on Streisand’s 2016 Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway album.
