For as long as I have worked in the theatre, I have spoken my mind and never apologized. That is changing today,” LuPone wrote in a statement.

The seventy-six-year-old theatre diva, famed and feared for her salty bravado, dishes on Hal Prince, her non-friendship with Audra McDonald, and sexy but dumb New York Rangers.

Broadway performers and theater professionals are calling on the producers of the Tony Awards to disinvite Patti LuPone from the show after the theater legend made controversial remarks about Audra McDonald and “Hell’s Kitchen” star Kecia Lewis in an interview with the New Yorker.

LuPone previously worked with McDonald before criticizing her in a new wide-ranging interview.Key PointsPatti LuPone had a shady reaction to questions about Audra McDonald in a new interview.The Tony winner said McDonald is "not a friend" to her after previously working together.

"He was a Lothario," the Broadway star said of her ex Kevin Kline Patti LuPone recalled her "painful" on-off relationship with Kevin Kline, whom she dated in the 1970s after they met at Juilliard "I was his girlfriend when he wanted me to be his girlfriend,