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John Legend never gets nervous—until he starts prank calling people he’s never actually called before (well, except his wife). The EGOT winner delivers an Oscar-worthy performance in this episode of “Phoning It In” as he gives alum Kelsea Ballerini a taste of her own medicine by claiming their fellow ‘Voice’ judge Adam Levine’s group texts have leaked. He also sends Kerry Washington into a full-blown casting crisis with fake news that Jay Ellis is dropping out of their Off-Broadway play, and tells Chrissy Teigen that Andy Cohen hit his car and drove off. She says her reaction might’ve been different if he’d called an hour later—but to John, her response (and she herself) were absolutely perfect.  Get tickets to John Legend’s Get Lifted 20th Anniversary Tour here: https://johnlegend.com/#shows  #JohnLegend #GetLifted #PhoningItIn #ELLE

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00:00What the hell?

00:01And this was a prank call.

00:04Oh my god, you stupid idiot.

00:08I'm John Legend, and this is Phoning It In with Elle.

00:13All right.

00:14I'm so nervous.

00:14Why am I nervous for this?

00:15I'm never nervous for anything else.

00:17These are people I've literally never called.

00:20I've texted all these people.

00:22I've never called Carrie.

00:23I've called my wife before.

00:25Never called Kelsey Ballerini.

00:27All right, here we go.

00:28Let's do Kelsey.

00:28Let me think of something.

00:30I could do one on our group chat,

00:31because we've definitely had some things,

00:33some spicy things in the group chat.

00:35I'm going to call Kelsey Ballerini and tell her

00:38that Adam's text got leaked.

00:41The group chat has been exposed.

00:47Acting.

00:48Mr. Legend.

00:49Miss Ballerini, how are you?

00:51Oh my goodness, I miss you.

00:52How are you?

00:53I'm doing great.

00:54I miss you too.

00:56Where are you in the world right now?

00:57You know what?

00:58I am on a girl's trip in Paris,

01:00and we are just having the best time.

01:02Well, have you been checking the news and shit?

01:05Not today.

01:06Is there anything new that I should know about?

01:09Yeah.

01:11Did you see Adam's text?

01:12What?

01:13Adam's fucking text got leaked,

01:15and he was like talking shit with us,

01:18like everything, and it all got leaked.

01:20That doesn't sound right.

01:23Yeah, it's weird.

01:26He didn't talk shit to me.

01:27Yeah, he did to me, and it all got leaked.

01:32On what?

01:32On TMZ?

01:33I don't know.

01:34It's out there, though.

01:35It's out there.

01:38I didn't say anything.

01:39I feel like I was Switzerland, right?

01:42Yes, you were Switzerland.

01:44Adam, not so much.

01:45Me, not so much.

01:47John, you're lying to me.

01:48I don't believe you.

01:49What are you talking about?

01:51I'm lying to you.

01:51I'm with Elle right now.

01:55You are with Elle right now.

01:57I just did this.

01:58I'm doing a segment called Phoning It In.

02:00You are on camera right now.

02:04I just did this, and I should have known.

02:06I was like, she's going to know because she just did it.

02:11I was so scared because you've never called me on the phone

02:14before.

02:14Exactly.

02:15That's what I just said.

02:16I was like, I never call anyone, and they're all going

02:19to be so weirded out by the fact that I'm calling them.

02:22No, I'm weirded out.

02:23I'm officially weirded out, but now I feel a little.

02:26I can breathe.

02:26I'm sweating.

02:28I'm sweating.

02:30This is the karma that I deserve.

02:32All right, bye.

02:33Bye.

02:34She's like, I was Switzerland.

02:38Who can I call with this?

02:39I'm going to call Kerry Washington.

02:41We have a show, an off-Broadway play that we're producing.

02:45We could say Jay doesn't want to do it anymore.

02:48I'm going to see if Kerry has any casting ideas for his replacement.

02:55Hello?

02:56Kerry!

02:57Good morning.

02:58How are you?

02:59I'm good.

03:00I'm in the car with Kay strapping in at camp, so keep it clean.

03:04I'll keep it clean.

03:05The show went so beautifully last night.

03:08I was so, like, just so impressed.

03:10I'm so excited.

03:12I wish I wasn't filming.

03:13I'm so, so happy you were there.

03:15Yeah, it was so good.

03:17And, you know, I never call you, but we've got a kind of interesting situation.

03:24Jay Ellis, who was brilliant last night, it looks like he's going to have, like, a film

03:29opportunity come up sooner rather than later, and we might have to recast.

03:34Whoa!

03:38Exactly.

03:41Okay.

03:41Uh, we probably are going to need a casting director.

03:45It's like, how do you just replace a big movie star that decided he was going to do off-Broadway

03:49for a little while?

03:50It's going to be rough.

03:51All right, this is interesting.

03:54Are you open to me calling Carrie Barden, who's such a great New York theater casting person?

04:00Absolutely.

04:01That would be so helpful.

04:03And I should tell you that I'm with Elle right now, and they have me prank calling my friend,

04:08so none of this is actually true.

04:10Oh, my God, you're the worst!

04:17Ah!

04:17This felt real, right?

04:19Yeah, well, you're such a good actor.

04:23We need to get you back on this scene, not with this scene.

04:31Well, thank you, Carrie, and, uh...

04:34Oh, my God, thank you for giving me a heart attack this morning.

04:36Thank you!

04:38Okay, that worked.

04:40That was perfect.

04:41All right, here we go.

04:42Andy Cohen could work for Chrissy.

04:45She's going to die.

04:47She's going to be so annoyed with me for pranking her.

04:51I'm scared of how she's going to react.

04:54I'm going to tell her that Andy Cohen did a hit and run. Come on, Andy.

05:01Hello?

05:01Baby.

05:02Yeah?

05:03So I'm rolling around New York in our sprinter, and we fucking get in a car accident, and it's Andy Cohen's car.

05:13No way.

05:14Yes!

05:15His people just drove off. Like, he was in the car, I saw him, and they just drove off.

05:20How bad is the accident?

05:21We're fine. Everybody's fine. We're alive. I mean, we're in a sprinter.

05:25Like it was his SUV or something?

05:27Yeah, his SUV. I literally see him in the SUV, and he's like, bye, peace.

05:31What the hell?

05:33Yeah, Andy just drove off. Like, stay there. You're supposed to, you know, exchange insurance information.

05:39Oh, my God. Okay, let me know what happens.

05:41Okay, and this was a prank call.

05:45Oh, my God. You stupid idiot.

05:49I'm with Elle magazine, and they made me do it.

05:52Oh, my God. I was going to tell you, don't start a conversation like that. It scares me.

06:00You behave perfectly.

06:01Oh, thanks. You know what it is, is I'm so fucking tired.

06:07I don't know if it's an hour from now. It would have been really different, I think.

06:13But I'm literally, I can't even feel my face. I'm so tired.

06:17I love you. Thank you for being perfect.

06:19Okay, I love you.

06:21Love you. Bye.

06:22Chrissy was great. She handled that very smoothly. You never know.

06:27That was Phoning It In with Elle. You can catch me on tour. I'm celebrating 20 years of my debut album,

06:34Get Lifted, and we'll be all around North America celebrating. Come hang out with us.

06:38Chrissy just texted me, are you proud of me?

07:04Ooh, gosh.

07:08You'll never know.

07:18You'll never know.

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