Jesse Tyler Ferguson is sharing a hilarious story about his friendship with Vanessa Williams and having the wrong phone number for her for years.
The Modern Family actor is also the host of the podcast Dinner’s on Me and he has Vanessa as a guest for the latest episode. They previously worked together in 2017 in a production of Sondheim on Sondheim at the Hollywood Bowl. On the podcast, Jesse explained that he would send texts to Vanessa over the years and he never received a response, but he kept sending messages anyways.
Jesse said, “I would text you occasionally, but I never would get a response. It didn’t bother me. I was never waiting for Vanessa to text me back. But I would always text you again like, ‘Oh, the last text I sent to her is right there. She never responded. Oh well, she’s busy.’ This happened for, like, a few years.”
Among the things that Jesse would send were photos of his kids or screenshots of things he saw online.
In 2022, Jesse and Vanessa were both on Broadway, performing across the street from each other in the plays Take Me Out and POTUS, respectively.
Jesse said, “For your last show, basically I know the entire cast of POTUS at this point, so I sent a group text to you all. The first line of your play was the C-word, see you next Tuesday—it’s spoken by Julie White—so I said, ‘Congratulations! Have a great last show, C-word.’ The comments go,‘Haha, that’s so funny,’ and then I see, ‘Vanessa Williams has left the conversation.’”
“So, I privately text you and I say, ‘Vanessa, I’m so sorry, I was quoting the play. I’m so sorry if I offended you.’ This person responds back, ‘This is not Vanessa Williams! Please stop texting me.’ [For] years I’ve been texting this person!” he added.
Jesse had POTUS castmate Lea DeLaria show the texts to Vanessa, who then finally made sure the actor had her real phone number.
Jesse figured he wrote Vanessa‘s number down wrong, but she said she had “two different phones.”
“Well, the number I had that was no longer your number was now someone else’s number. Mortified. Mortified. But glad we cleared that up,” Jesse said.
Vanessa joked that Jesse “can call me the C-word anytime you’d like! Not offended.”
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