@Nicki Minaj may not have planned to cuss out Keke Palmer at the 2024 Met Gala, but she doesn't want fans thinking she's less than "the bad guy."
On Tuesday, Palmer stopped by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to promote her new memoir, Master of Me, but around the 5-minute mark of the conversation, the actress recalled thinking that Minaj was upset with her at the event.
Palmer was with Marc Jacobs, who was speaking to his husband Charly and Minaj on the red carpet, when the Pink Friday 2 rapper noticed the Nope star.
Palmer, who mentioned that Minaj connected her to famed photographer David LaChapelle for her maternity photoshoot, wanted to say "thank you" to the Queens native at the Met Gala, but Minaj intended to have another conversation entirely.
"'Uh-uh, you, I need to talk to you, hold on,'" Palmer recalled while doing an impression of Minaj.
"I done did something! Nicki about to cuss me out at the Met Gala," Palmer told Fallon while leaning back in shock.
But, to Palmer's relief, Minaj's response was positive.
"'Look, I don’t read the press. I don’t know everything that’s goin' on,'" Palmer claimed Minaj told her. "But I just wanna tell you, nobody knows what it’s like when we turn off the lights and we gotta be with ourselves. So you do whatever you need to do to be good with you."
"And I was like, 'Yeah!'" Palmer concluded, adding, "I was like, 'Thank you for the speech.' I was not expecting that."
But while the interaction turned out to be pleasant, Minaj's reaction to the segment shows she still wants to be considered "Barbie Dangerous."
"Oh, what a KI…KI… Ummmm…why would she even tell that story? doesn’t she know that could mess up the whole 'bad guy' thing?" she joked. "Let’s see if she still laughin when she get hit w/that cease & desist chi."
She signed off her post as "the bad guy Chun-Ki…ki…" and added photos of the Chucky doll from Child's Play. But maybe she's really just a sweet Barbie at heart.