Barbra Streisand Swears She Was Trying to Compliment Melissa McCarthy by Asking ‘Did You Take Ozempic?’

Barbra Streisand has apologized after getting a harsh reminder that public comments on someone’s Instagram are not, uh, private direct messages. 

The 82-year-old icon was caught in the comments of a recent Melissa McCarthy Instagram post asking the actress, “did you take Ozempic?” Actually, the full comment is even better, lacking all punctuation, besides the final question mark at the end, and exhibiting a short but profound stream of consciousness writing style. The photo was of McCarthy and director Adam Shankman en route to a charity gala, and, in full, Babs wrote, “Give him my regards did you take Ozempic?”

Like clockwork, the post was picked up by the popular IG aggregator, CommentsByCelebs — designed exactly for moments like this — and quickly went viral. That forced Streisand to issue an apology on social media — a post that was just as glorious, in its own way, as the one that got her into this mess. 

First, it began the way you hope all posts from octogenarians begin, with an “OMG,” followed by a kinda curious and circuitous explanation: All this started, because she’d logged onto Instagram to “see the photos we’d posted of the beautiful flowers I’d received for my birthday.” (One would assume those same pictures are also in a photo album on Streisand’s phone, so why not look at them there? Either way, the flowers are, indeed, beautiful and plentiful.)