Kathy Najimy Breaks Silence on Being ‘Separate Friends’ With Sarah Jessica Parker & Kim Cattrall

“You know, we each tin person abstracted friends,” Kathy Najimy told PEOPLE at the New York City premiere of her caller movie, Hocus Pocus 2. The remark came successful respect to her relationship with Hocus Pocus costar Sarah Jessica Parker and Sarah’s erstwhile Sex In The City costar Kim Cattrall. With the ongoing rift betwixt Sarah, 57, and Kim, 66, Kathy said that she’s been capable to negociate her narration with the idiosyncratic women. “You tin emotion 2 radical the aforesaid that are on, you know, antithetic parts of the universe,” said Najimy, 65. “Being friends with 1 idiosyncratic doesn’t mean you’re not friends with the different person.”

Kathy got caught successful the crossfire of the alleged feud successful June 2022, erstwhile The Hollywood Reporter published an occurrence of its Awards Chatter podcast wherever SJP addressed the falling out with Kim, and wherefore  Cattrall wasn’t progressive successful the sequel series, And Just Like That. “Sending you alll the emotion and enactment successful the WORLD today!!” Kathy tweeted to Kim. “One of the best, astir authentic humans successful the ‘business’ and possibly the world! meal soooon my love!”

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During the chat with THR, Sarah Jessica Parker spoke connected Kim’s deficiency of engagement successful AJLT. “We did not inquire her to beryllium portion of this due to the fact that she made it wide that that wasn’t thing she wanted to pursue,” said Parker, “and it nary longer felt comfy for us, and truthful it didn’t hap to us. That’s not ‘slamming’ her, it’s conscionable learning.”

“You’ve got to perceive to somebody,” she added, “and if they’re publically talking astir thing and it doesn’t suggest it’s immoderate spot they privation to be, oregon a idiosyncratic they privation to play, oregon an situation successful which they privation to be, you get to an property wherever you’re like, ‘Well, we perceive that.’”

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Cattrall and Parker’s narration seemed to crook sour astir the failed effort astatine a 3rd Sex And The City movie, with reports claiming Kim made demands that yet sunk the movie. “The lone DEMAND I ever made was that I didn’t privation to bash a 3rd film,” Kim tweeted successful response. “And that was backmost successful 2016.” From there, a agelong nationalist acold warfare followed, with Kim claiming she never was friends with her SATC coworkers, portion SJP did her champion to downplay immoderate speech of a “fight” betwixt her and Cattrall.