Lauren LaRosa (3:03)
Hey, y', all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa. And this is another episode of the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, first we have to do the thing that we do over here where we check in behind the scenes of the grinding and checking in behind the scenes of the grind today. I mean, I'm just happy that it's almost Friday. I'm gonna just be honest with you guys. Like, I am looking forward so much. Just been in the holiday weekend. Easter is coming up with my family and just taking that time to do so that I have been counting down. I. I kicked off the week, not the week, but I kicked off kind of like my weekend, or I was supposed to be kicking off my weekend. We're heading on over to see Meg thee Stallion on Broadway in Moulin Rouge. And that completely went left field. I just wrapped and you guys can catch those live now. I just wrapped two interviews about that experience, the Broadway one with Inside Edition and one with the Good Morning America where we talked about the fact that I went to go see Meg thee Stallion on Broadway and abruptly the show stopped because Meg got sick and was taken to the hospital. Literally, very abruptly, not planned. So you guys can imagine, I would say that it caused a shakeup, but honestly, it didn't. Like, I mean, they paused for a second in the moment. It felt like, what the hell is happening? Super confusing. But then they continued on. But now it's the after conversation of what happened. So I received a statement from a spokesperson for Meg the Stallion. And that statement says, on Tuesday evening, Megan was transported to a local hospital to undergo a medical evaluation after experiencing concerning symptoms. Dr. Doctors ultimately identified extreme exhaustion, dehydration, low metabolic levels as the cause of her symptoms. Megan has since been treated, discharged, and is now resting. Megan is incredibly grateful for the prayers in the well wishes from her supporters and is looking forward to resuming her role as Ziddler on Moulin Rouge or at Moulin Rouge on Thursday. Now, Meg Thee Stallion herself posted to her Instagram as well. Just thanking people for the support and providing some more information. So Megan posted a photo of her from Ziddler from Moulin Rouge, and she says, last night was a real wake up call for me. I've been pushing myself past my limits lately. Running on, running on empty. My body said enough. It's honestly scary for me. I thought I was going to faint on stage, which is crazy because watching her, you couldn't tell that. Like, I think that's the scariest part about all of this. You know, her saying that she felt like she was going to faint. And then you're bringing in dehydration and exhaustion and all these things. You could not tell that when she was on that stage, y'. All. And again, she wasn't. She wasn't there long like she was. She didn't appear too many times on stage prior to the moment that we're talking about where she had to no longer be on the stage. But the times that she appeared, like, I literally remember sitting and thinking, like, okay, number one, the cast was just fire. It was very timely. Like, the music that they used to create the Moulin Rouge vibe wasn't like, I thought it was gonna be timepiece stuff. So I thought the music was going to be like a lot of older, like ballady, you know, like those type of things that it wasn't like they were doing Britney Spears, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner. It was a vibe. But Meg Thee Stallion fit right in. Like, her energy, her voice, even though she's not like a sanger at all, but just even in her speaking role, because Ziller is more of like the orchestrator of all of the madness in the show. Because Ziddler is the person that is running the Cabaret, the Moulin Rouge location. But you know how Meg Thee Stallion has that, like, animated high voice? It just fit with the show. She looked good. She fit with the cast. She didn't feel like the celebrity on the stage at Broadway. And I'm very surprised to hear this. But, you know, you don't always know what that looks like, exhaustion and all the things that she is claiming. And she then continues to go on to say that she hates letting people down. She wants to be real with the hotties who are her. You know, her, you know her followers because they mean everything to her. But she just needs a day of rest. She says she'll be back on that stage this coming Thursday, stronger, clearer, and ready to give you 100 the way you deserve. Thank you for always riding with me and loving me through everything. The hotties was in the building, okay, because there was a few girls, there was a few ladies who got up and left. Once it was announced that Magnify would not be returning back onto the stage as well as, like, people just sitting there with well wishes. I stayed as long as I could. I didn't finish the show though, but I stayed as long as I could because I still wanted to see the show and it was great. The understudy who came in for Megdascallian was great. The rest of the cast was great as well. Like the lead who plays Celestine, the woman who plays her, her voice is like, not real. Like, at one point we thought, well, I. I knew I'm like, this is live. There's no way that this is, like pre taped that much. I know that they probably might add some, like, you know, support vocals, but to hear a person sing live and sound the way that the lead of the place sounded was everything but, yeah, just. I don't know, it's just I didn't expect sitting there in the show for any of that to happen. And then I was talking to. I reached out and just text Charlemagne and Envy because I was trying to figure out what was going on when after I reached out to Max Team and they didn't tell me anything, right? I hit them and I'm like, yo, can y' all reach out to somebody that y' all may know in the camp? Because I need to know what's going on. Number one, just as a person sitting here in this theater who was being told not to go anywhere, to sit down and have a seat, right? That was number one. Just make sure I'm cool. But number two, also now it's like the journalist in me is kicking in. I made notes inside of the theater just in the moment of things, because, like, I just wanted to document everything that was happening. And I didn't even remember taking these notes. That's how fast everything happened. When I came in to work the following day, I. I remembered or I saw these notes. So at 7:40pm they paused the show and asked the crew to clear the stage and said that they'd be making an update for the audience, but to stay seated. And then I just talked a little bit about some of the songs that, you know, they were doing. Like Elton John. I told you guys, Britney Spears, Tina Turner. When I heard what's Love Got To Do With It, I was like, okay, so this This I. I like. They take the newer songs or, I mean, not. That song's not super new, but you guys get what I mean. Like, songs that you recognize and identify with, but they make it feel within. The love story of Moulin Rouge. Now I do want to go back. I do want to go back on Thursday. I should actually try and buy a ticket right now. I think I'm gonna do that. I want to go back on Thursday. I'll purchase a ticket because I doubt anybody won't invite me because I don't put this story out. But I didn't know that the story would do all of this, y'. All. Like, I. I really didn't. I didn't. I knew that it was news and I knew that I was going to make it news, but I had no idea, you know, the reach and the legs that this thing would have. But I think it's because, you know, people are just nosy, if we've been honest. People love anything drama and it had all of the, you know, the elements. But I think that there just is a really. There's a crowd of people who are really invested in Meg thee stallion. Whether it's for positive things because you care about her, you wanted the hotties you want to support, or it's for negative things. Following everything with Tory Lanez, like, I think that there are people on both sides that are super, super invested. Um, and I can see why, you know, she is doing, like, pushing herself to the limit that she's pushing herself. Not that I think that it's right, but I can understand it just because of how big the conversation around her gets. She's superstar, so. So I get it. So I'll keep you guys posted. I'm actually going to go in. I'm a buy some tickets to return back to Moulin Rouge on Thursday. We'll let you know how the full show with Meg the Stallion goes when I am able to do so.
