Ariana DeBose reveals health scare almost meant she didn’t perform Baftas rap

Ariana Debose reveals health scare almost meant she did not perform Baftas rap. Source: The Jonathan Ross Show

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00:00 You've got a kind of some flack for the bastard. Oh, yeah

00:02 You did here early this year and I know there was a kind of backstory that we don't all know

00:06 Yeah, well I was I was kind of recovering from like walking pneumonia Wow

00:12 So you were really had been really ill

00:13 I I kind of was but I'm a theater kid like I you know

00:18 The show must go on sort of thing and we've come, you know gone down the road for so long

00:23 I was just like I didn't have the heart to back out and I was I'd been deemed well enough to continue to work

00:28 I wasn't gonna go and like get anybody sick. It's a room full of very famous very talented people

00:32 So not to be irresponsible by any stretch of the mind

00:35 But I really wanted to go and support the folks and we were trying something new and what I do is typically high energy

00:40 and you know hindsight is 20/20 and maybe

00:43 recovering from walking pneumonia is not the time to like be in six-inch heels and like a big fat pink skirt and jump off

00:50 A chair and try and rap at the same time. Okay, Angela Bassett did the thing. Well, she did

00:55 She did the hit.