Sherri Shepherd recently had a run-in with an "unnamed celebrity actress" on Broadway.

The 57-year-old star attended the premiere of Denzel Washington's 'Othello' earlier this month - but Sherri was shocked when she was confronted at the event by a well-known actress.

The TV star said on her 'Sherri' chat show: "I get along with everybody, I really do. So I'm standing there, and I was talking to Khadeen and Devale Ellis, and Devale Ellis is on 'Sisters'. So this unnamed celebrity actress, who shall remain nameless … grabbed my arm, and they forcefully turned me around."

Sherri recalled being caught off-guard by the actress.

She said: "I go, 'Hi! What's going on?' Cause I know her. And she says to me, she goes, 'You've been shading me a lot.' That's what she said to me.

"I said to her, 'No, I haven't.' Because I was really confused. And she goes, 'Yes, you have.' And then she just walked off."

Sherri subsequently insisted that she doesn't "shade many people".

She explained: "First of all, I know who I shade because I don't shade many people. It might be one person I shade. And I never have shaded this unnamed celebrity … So I was mad. I was really mad, and I said, 'You know what? You don't freaking get to do that to me.'"

Sherri actually went out of her way to speak to the actress later that night.

The chat-show host said: "I went to the bathroom during intermission and I stood there 15 minutes, waiting for a meeting in the ladies room. I stood there!

"'You gonna tell me I shaded you? Nu-uh. You don't get to turn me around like we're in a doggone cartoon.'"