Zendaya forced to respond to claims she ’threw shade’ at Blake Lively and Emily Blunt in video
Topics: Blake Lively, Celebrity, Zendaya
Ali Condon
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Topics: Blake Lively, Celebrity, Zendaya
People are remembering the famous viral video of Zendaya sitting with Blake Lively and Emily Blunt at a Michael Kors fashion show.
The moment first went viral back in 2018, when the three A-listers sat front row at the New York Fashion Week event.
While Blake and Emily could be seen laughing hysterically, Zendaya looked almost unimpressed.
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With her back turned to them and her eyes darting, people were certain that Zendaya was being 'shady' towards the two stars.
Re-watching the famous clip after it resurfaced on TikTok this week, viewers started reanalysing it all over again, with some suggesting that the former Disney star simply didn't have her glasses on.
"She looks like me when I forget my glasses", commented one viewer.
"Oh God... is this how mean I look when I’m not wearing my glasses and I’m trying to see?!" asked a second.
And a third agreed: "To be honest it looks like she couldn’t see and was looking hard at the run way."
Others argued that there was no way Zendaya could have been acting shady.
"I refuse to believe Zendaya is capable of being mean", one fan commented.
"Poor girl can’t just enjoy peering down the runway in peace", wrote another.
After the video took the internet by a storm, Zendaya was eager to set the record straight, and quickly took to Twitter to assure fans that it wasn't what it looked like.
"Whoa whoa whoa y'all not bout to have me out here lookin' shady", she tweeted. "I was looking at the runway and asking Law when the show was gonna start. Don't do me. They were super nice."
A day later, she added: "Y'all messy that's all lmao."
To back the Euphoria star up, photos from the runway event show Zendaya laughing along with Blake and Emily. So it's official: No beef here!
Last year, Emily Blunt also addressed the viral video clip while taking a lie detector test for Vanity Fair.
Asked what she and Blake Lively had been cracking up over, Emily confessed that it was over something pretty inappropriate.
Pointing out that Blake had been dressed in a bright red trench coat and over-the-knee dress, Emily recalled: "I think I was worried she was flashing her vagina. So it might've had something to do with that."
If we were Zendaya we'd probably try to pretend we didn't overhear that conversation either!