The Masked Singer’s Miss Cleocatra Revealed as [Spoiler]

The Masked Singer generally feels like a hallucination, but for Pass up Cleocatra, it almost was a person.

“I was even now on a minor morphine,” Jenifer Lewis quipped to Us Weekly in advance of her unmasking on the Wednesday, April 24, episode. “And if you glance intently, you are going to see the cat head goes, like, ‘What? What transpired?’ I was stoned under the hat.”

Lewis, 67, says all of this with a good deal of laughs, but she was recovering from a major wellbeing scare when she filmed her physical appearance on period 11 of the Fox level of competition collection, getting fallen from a 10-foot resort balcony in 2022 whilst vacationing in Tanzania. She unveiled in March that she could not try to remember how to stroll after the incident.

That was nevertheless the circumstance when the Black-ish alum filmed her appearance on The Masked Singer, and her Miss out on Cleocatra costume was developed with that in intellect.

“I was nonetheless on a walker when I did the present,” Lewis described. “I suggested that they make me Cleopatra so I could be carried out on a barge, so I could have the throne and that the males could escort me — you know, the muscular gentlemen, Cleopatra. So they named again and they confirmed me the cat head and they stated, ‘We’re heading to make you Cleocatra.’ And woman, I laughed so difficult. I imagined it was hysterical. And it worked! It labored for me remaining ready to disguise the fact that I could not stroll. … I experienced a great time.”

The Masked Singer was really one of the initially assignments she did subsequent her restoration, in element due to the fact her good friends believed it would be a enjoyment way for her to get again in the activity.

“My mates manufactured me get out of bed,” she recalled, introducing that she appreciated the thought of executing one thing purely worry-free of charge. “That’s my career now. No strain, especially soon after the drop in Africa. Just present up, have some enjoyment and give some terms of wisdom when you can. End of tale.”

It’s the exact same cause Lewis, a seasoned stage and display screen vet, stated yes to a further off-the-wall job this year: Jennifer Lopez’s This Is Me … Now: A Adore Story. Lewis played the Gemini member of the zodiac council who recommended Lopez’s character, The Artist, on matters of existence and really like.

“She known as and she actually desired me to offer with the mental sickness factor of what she was hoping to relay to her viewers,” Lewis discussed. “And she experienced seen an interview wherever I talked about coming out of dark rooms and depression. Due to the fact you know, I have bipolar dysfunction, but I have been treated for lots of yrs and I actually highly regarded that. So, I confirmed up for her and it was a whole lot of entertaining. I indicate, that costume alone, I was like, ‘What am I sporting? What is that about?’”

The Masked Singer, even so, even now stands out on a bright spot on Lewis’ résumé for its pure ridiculousness.

“My guess is it would be up there in the major 5 [weirdest things I’ve done],” Lewis advised Us. “I’ve experienced some mishaps with costumes — a tit fell out after in entrance of an viewers. I experienced a few of factors materialize. Oh, girl, I could inform you stories. But yeah, Masked Singer‘s up there with a ton of them.”

The Masked Singer airs on Fox Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET.