Audra McDonald gracefully clapped back after Patti LuPone claimed they weren’t friends.
“If there’s a rift between us, I don’t know what it is,” the “Good Fight” actress said in a preview posted via Instagram Thursday for her upcoming “CBS Mornings” interview.
“That’s something you’d have to ask Patti about,” McDonald, 54, continued.
“You know, I haven’t seen her in about 11 years just because we’ve been busy just with life. So I don’t know what rift she’s talking about, but you’d have to ask her.”
Several fans applauded McDonald’s remarks, with one commenting, “classssssy girl!!! luv me some her! 👏🏿👏🏿.”
“A true lady is baited by NOone [sic]. ❤️ Great answer, Audra,” another added.
A third chimed in, “Audra is a class act (had she chosen to be petty I wouldn’t have been mad either).”
Reps for LuPone, 76, weren’t immediately available to Page Six for comment.
McDonald’s response came after the “Agatha All Along” star threw shade at her in a New Yorker profile published Monday.
“She’s not a friend,” LuPone said.
When LuPone was asked her thoughts on McDonald’s role as Mama Rose in the latest Broadway revival of “Gypsy,” she sat in silence for 15 seconds.
The outlet noted that she then turned toward the window and said, “What a beautiful day.”
LuPone notably played Mama Rose in the 2008 revival.
McDonald’s role in the musical earned her an 11th Tony nomination earlier the month, continuing her reign as the most-nominated Broadway performer.
The “Private Practice” alum has won six Tony Awards throughout her career, while LuPone has nabbed three.
The duo previously worked together on Broadway in 2000’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” and 2007’s “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.”