“It degrades me.
“Thank goodness, because it was not the two ladies that I was auditioning with.”
Grande seemed taken aback by the admission, exclaiming, “Oh my God!”
Erivo doubled down, saying the news of Grande’s casting caused her “absolutely no surprise whatsoever.”
“The whole day was a nightmare.
We cried every minute, every hour.
We both were in a horrible state for a few days,” Grande revealed to theNew York Times.
“Yeah, it was really hard to let them go,” Erivo chimed in.
