Rita Moreno Admits She ‘Peed’ In Designer Gown At Kennedy Awards Dinner

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Rita Moreno shared an embarrassing communicative astir the State Department meal earlier she received her Kennedy Center Honor, during an quality on The View on Tuesday, May 16. The Fast X actress, 91, admitted that she ended up wetting herself erstwhile 1 of the different guests gave her excessively choky of a hug aft she received the grant from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. 

Rita explained that earlier the incident, the Supreme Court Justice gave a beauteous code honoring her and her accomplishments. “The nighttime earlier the existent Kennedy Awards connected television, you are invited to the State Department, and that’s wherever you get your necklace, and that’s wherever you get your dedication,” she said. “She asked maine to travel to the podium with her, and she said fabulous things astir me, enactment the necklace astir me, and past near maine to respond, and I did, and it was fun, and I was insanely proud.”

Rita Moreno shared the embarrassing communicative connected ‘The View.’ (Luca Carlino/NurPhoto/Shutterstock)

The West Side Story star continued and explained that arsenic she returned to her table, she was greeted by a precise excited guest, who was conscionable arsenic thrilled astir the grant arsenic she was. “I’m walking backmost to my table, and determination was a young man, a Puerto Rican young man. He was a lawyer, who was sitting astatine my table, actually. So proud, due to the fact that helium benignant of helped enactment this together, and helium lifted maine up, and was conscionable hugging maine to death, and I mean truly hugging me,” she explained.

Unfortunately, it was a small spot excessively overmuch for Rita, and she was shocked astatine the moment, but it doesn’t dependable similar the lawyer noticed. “I felt a watercourse of thing hot,” she said. “Yes, I was peeing connected my Narciso Rodriguez gown that helium made for me.”

Rita continued and said the lawyer kept praising her and went to prime her up again, but she tried to get him to stop, aft having the embarrassing moment. The View co-host Joy Behar even joked that the young antheral “squeezed it close retired of you.” The histrion said she was aghast astatine what had happened. “I’m a star. This is not happening,” she said.

Before the interrogation ended, Rita revealed that luckily, the information that she’d peed wasn’t noticeable, but it did extremity up altering the gown completely. “It did not permission a stain, but it got truthful cold, I had to spell change. I hung up the gown, and it shrank down to a size 4,” she said.

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