Michelle Williams dropped by Watch What Happens Live on Wednesday night (Sept. 10) to manifest a spot on one of the Real Housewives franchises, reveal her favorite Destiny’s Child song and talk about the beloved trio’s surprise reunion at the July 26 Las Vegas date on Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter tour.
Compared to the last time the group got together at Coachella in 2018 — when she and Kelly Rowland hopped on stage for Beyoncé’s headlining gig — Williams said the Cowboy Carter tour finale was “just awesome, spur-of-the-moment,” explaining that before the Coachella gig they had “a little more time” to prepare. “This one was, ‘y’all let’s do this,’ and we did,” she said.
Williams, who is currently starring as Viola Van Horn in the Broadway musical Death Becomes Her, said she did not spill to co-stars Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard that she was sneaking out to hit the stage with her former bandmates. “No, I mean, I spoke to some powers that be once I knew that it was official, but I was kind of already gone,” she said.
Then Cohen got down to what everyone wants to know: is there any truth to the rumors that Bey’s mysterious Act III project will be a full DC album? “Now Andy, if that were the case…” she said, before Cohen cut her off and added, “this would be the last place that you would…”
Williams laughed, “it’s not the last place…,” but, of course, she kept things mum.
He then broadened the question, asking if Williams has hopes that the three of them might record something together some day. “Anything is possible,” Williams said diplomatically. “To me, performing on stage is like that for me… I only like it with Beyoncé and Kelly. But as far as Broadway, I’m a Broadway girl… Music? I only want to do it with them.”
Cohen kept digging in, asking how they landed on the songs they performed, which included “Lose My Breath,” “Energy” and “Bootylicious.”
“See, I don’t like giving away secrets,” Williams said. “There are talks, but I think too, why we’re able to have impact too, it’s not only the fact that people miss us, it’s because of what we don’t share… When you see us, you see us and when you don’t…”
Williams also revealed her go-to karaoke song on the show, and it might surprise you. “Livin’ on a Prayer’ by Bon Jovi,” she told Cohen, adding that her first concert was a Ray Charles gig. She also stressed over naming her least favorite DC song after Cohen reminded her that when Rowland was on the show she picked “Bug a Boo” from 1999’s The Writing’s on the Wall, a track recorded before Williams joined the group for 2001’s Survivor album.
“Ohhh!” she agonized, as Cohen gave her an out by also allowing her to name her favorite track by the trio. “Okay, so, I would say ‘Say My Name’ by far,” she said. Then, remembering that the title track from Survivor had played earlier in the show, she reconsidered and picked that one because “the musicality is still relevant… and it was the first I was ever on commercially.”
Check out Williams talking DC on WWHL below.