For reference, 39-year-old Leighton changeable to fame playing Blair Waldorf successful Gossip Girl backmost successful 2007, and was astatine the ceremonial with her husband, Adam Brody, who was nominated successful the Best Actor successful a Comedy Series class for his show successful Nobody Wants This.
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Meanwhile, Ariana, 32, was astatine the ceremonial arsenic she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her relation arsenic Glinda successful Wicked: For Good.
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And successful reddish carpet footage that was captured by E!, Ari and Leighton were seen having a little speech up of the main lawsuit — Ariana was seemingly connected her mode into the venue, portion Leighton and Adam stopped to airs for photographs.
The 2 women caught each other’s oculus and waved astatine 1 another, with Ariana saying: “Love you truthful much!” Putting her manus to her thorax arsenic she walked off, she continued: “Wow, wow, wow.”

At this point, Leighton turned to the pistillate lasting adjacent to her and appeared to repeat: “Wow, wow, wow,” earlier pulling a look and laughing.

Now, Leighton herself has weighed successful connected the speech and explained what really happened connected the reddish carpet — and it turns retired that it was each 1 large misunderstanding.

In a clip from her caller quality connected the Podcrushed podcast, Leighton explained that she’d attended the Critics’ Choice Awards with Adam past year, erstwhile helium won, and it made her cry. She said: “I conscionable felt precise earthy and affectional astatine the time.”

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Acknowledging that the communicative she was astir to archer is “just truthful silly,” she added: “But, like, a fewer weeks ago, I was going to the aforesaid grant show, and I was like: ‘Oh my god, retrieve erstwhile I cried past time?’ And I benignant of, like… Tears were coming out. And past I walked by Ariana Grande connected the reddish carpet, and if you conscionable locomotion by her, you’re connected the internet!”

“And she said something, I couldn’t perceive her,” Leighton went on. “I was with my publicist, Kate, truthful [Ariana] was walking by, she said thing to me, and past Kate turns around, and we some heard: ‘Hi, I emotion you, wah, wah, wah!’ I couldn’t hear; she was walking away.”

Explaining that she had conscionable mentioned to Adam and Kate that she had cried past year, Leighton went on: “I was like: ‘Oh, she’s benignant of a drama queen, she’s conscionable being funny.’ Like: ‘I emotion you, wah, wah, wah!’ I thought that was thing she would do, and I was like: ‘Oh my god, that’s cute and funny.’”

“Then it turned retired she didn’t accidental that,” Leighton sheepishly admitted betwixt giggles. “And past I saw her the adjacent week, and I was like: ‘I person to archer you, like, I thought…’ and she’s like: ‘You thought I said wah, wah, wah? That’s truthful funny!’ And I was like: ‘No, it’s an aged idiosyncratic not being capable to hear!’ That’s truthful embarrassing.”

You tin ticker the podcast clip below:
Leighton Meester explains her absorption to her viral brushwood with Ariana Grande astatine the Critics Choice Awards:
“I was with Kate [my publicist]. And she [Ariana] said thing to me. And past Kate turns astir and we some heard that she goes, ‘hi, I emotion you. Wah, wah, wah’. I… pic.twitter.com/WgR6Da4VYf
Podcrushed / Via Twitter: @leighmeesterorg

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