Talk show host Sherri Shepherd has heated confrontation with star while watching Broadway play

Drama brewed between US TV host Sherri Shepherd and an “unnamed celebrity” after the Hollywood star accosted her at a Broadway event.

Long story short: It seems that there’s drama of Shakespearean proportions between Sherri Shepherd and Nia Long.

On Sunday night, Shepherd went to the blowout debut of the white-hot show Othello — which stars Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal — alongside stars from Jennifer Lopez and Katie Holmes to Angela Bassett and Joe and Jill Biden.

And on her self-titled chat show Monday morning, Shepherd said she’d been accosted by an “unnamed celebrity” before the show began.

Sherri Shepherd called out the “unnamed celebrity on her talk show.

The former View co-host said that the star “grabbed my arm and forcefully turned me around … and she says to me, ‘You’ve been shading me a lot.’”

Page Six is told it was Boyz In The Hood and Friday star Long.

Shepherd said she denied the disses, but the adversary spat: “Yes, you have!”

Shepherd said she was left “really mad.”

“I went to the bathroom during the intermission and I waited there for 15 minutes waiting for a meeting in the ladies room,” she said.

The talk show host said the celebrity grabbed her arm at the opening night of Othello in New York on Sunday night. Picture: Valerie Terranova/Getty Images

Although Shephard did not name the celebrity, reports claim it is actress Nia Long, seen here at the event. Picture: Valerie Terranova/Getty Images

“You don’t get to grab me and turn me around like we’re in a daggum cartoon and just walk away.”

The actress and talk show star said that she thinks it was a case of mistaken identity, and invited the “unnamed celebrity” to come on her show to hash it out.

Also at the star-studded opening were Samuel L. Jackson, Zoe Kravitz, Christine Baranski, Peter Dinklage, Colman Domingo, Tamron Hall, Sunny Hostin, Keegan Michael Key, Spike Lee and many others.

A rep for Long didn’t immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.

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