Loretta Devine looked back on her long friendship with Sheryl Lee Ralph, as the Abbott Elementary star received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Wednesday. 

Devine, 75, and Ralph, 68, who has strong opinions about women being Sєxualized in Hollywood, have known each since their days starring on Broadway in Dreamgirls, and Devine revealed that there was smooth sailing for most of the four years they were on stage in the Tony award winning musical. 

‘Sheryl and I were roommates on Broadway, 1981, for four years,’ the Emmy winner told the very large audience who turned out to see Ralph honored.

Ralph starred in Dreamgirls as Deena Jones, earning a Tony nomination for her performance. 

Devine played Lorrell Robinson and Jennifer Holliday starred as lead singer Effie White. Together the three characters formed a girl group known as the Dreamettes in the early 1960s through the 1970s.

The Crash actress revealed that during their time living and working together, they only got in two disagreements. 

Loretta Devine, 75, looked back on her long friendship with Sheryl Lee Ralph, as the Abbot Elementary star received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Wednesday

‘The first one was because I kept getting hit in the head by a flat [a wooden piece of scenery used in a play] because Sheryl Lee, I thought, wasn’t moving fast enough. We were in the line and she had to go [onstage] and she wasn’t going!’ Devine explained.

‘I was like, “She’s trying to kill me!” Only to find out later that it was Zane the stage hand. He would fall asleep and just let the flat fall wherever,’ the Grey’s Anatomy alum laughed. 

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The second dust-up came with Ralph painted her dressing room ‘Pepto-Bismol pink.’

‘They had taken these new girls to L.A. here. They would not bring us,’ Devine explained about a promotional trip for the musical. ‘Jennifer Holliday came. Debbie Burrell. They wouldn’t even let us come,’ she said.

‘On top of that, they sent pictures of this beautiful dressing room with a sofa that was pink, and Sheryl was determined to upgrade,’  the Boston Public star said of the decision to paint the dressing room.

‘On top of that, every night we had to go down to the basement, downstairs to the basement, cross the basement stairs, go back up the stairs to the stage, and they had put a huge poster of the new girls in these skimpy outfits on the door.’

Devine said Ralph did not like the so-called ‘skimpy’ pH๏τos, and did something about it, surrepтιтiously. 

‘The picture vanished. Nobody knew what happened to the picture,’ and then ‘One day, Sheryl Lee said, “Loretta, you wanna know what happened to the poster?”‘

Devine (r) and Ralph, 68, starred in Dreamgirls with Jennifer Holliday (l) for four years on Broadway beginning in 1981.  They were co-stars and roommates during that time 

The Crash actress revealed that during their time living and working together, they only had two disagreements. One was regarding a piece of equipment that kept hitting her as they went on stage, the other was about Ralph painting her dressing room Pepto-Bismol pink

Ralph revealed Devine hardly spoke to her for a week after she painted her dressing room that bright  Pepto-Bismol color

‘I was like, “Where’s the poster?” There was a brick on the floor in front of the door. She moved the brick and there it was. It was like rolling away the stone in the Bible!’ she exclaimed.

‘I was amazed at how creative she was and to this day, I’m amazed at her ability to get things done,’ she said.

‘That’s Sheryl Lee Ralph: she was strong then, and she still is strong.’

‘You were very mad at me for that Pepto-Bismol room,’ Ralph said when it was her turn to take the mic. 

‘She hardly spoke to me for a week!’ she told the global audience.  

As she accepted the honor, Ralph said she felt it represented ‘every artist who has ever felt unseen, every woman who was told to wait her turn,’ adding, ‘I want generations to see what’s possible. That their dreams are valid, that their voice is powerful and their potential limitless’

Ralph was surrounded by her Abbot Elementary family, including William Stanford Davis, Tyler James Williams, Quinta Brunson, Lisa Anne Walter, Chris Perfetti and Janelle James

 As she accepted the honor, Ralph said she felt it represented ‘every artist who has ever felt unseen, every woman who was told to wait her turn’.

‘I walked this path with purpose because I know young people are watching and representation matters, and when I am able to, I step on the set of Abbott Elementary every day with the same joy and enthusiasm,’ the actress declared.

‘I felt that when I was 24 years old in Dreamgirls, and it’s because I want generations to see what’s possible. That their dreams are valid, that their voice is powerful and their potential limitless.’

Ralph was not only honored by Devine at the landmark ceremony, but she was surrounded by her Abbot Elementary family, including Quinta Brunson, Lisa Anne Walter, Janelle James, William Stanford Davis, Tyler James Williams and Chris Perfetti.