Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande have famously gotten very close while filming Wicked – so close, apparently, that they’re not just finishing each others’ sentences but replicating them entirely. On Wednesday, a Wicked fan speaking to the Washington Post pointed out that Erivo’s new memoir included an uncredited quote from Grande, copied almost verbatim. The accusation came two weeks after the book, Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much , was published on November 18.

The passage is in Chapter 42, where Erivo writes about her struggles with body image. “I’ve been a specimen in a petri dish since I was a teenager. I’ve heard it all, every version of what’s wrong with me. And when I fix it, then it’s wrong for different reasons. Maybe you’ve felt the same?

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