Rita Moreno tells a very interesting story about meeting Lenny Kravitz

Rita Moreno tells a very interesting story about meeting Lenny Kravitz

Rita Moreno is a legend, but that doesn’t stop her from introducing herself to the people she admires.

The EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winner shared just one such story on “The Jennifer Hudson” Thursday.

Moreno talked about attending this year’s Academy Awards and the Vanity Fair after party. She tells Hudson that she doesn’t go out much, but when she does she likes to do it in a big way.

Since she is a widow, Moreno said her date is often her daughter, Fernanda Luisa Gordon, who was with her when she saw rocker Lenny Kravitz at the party.

“I said ‘Let’s say hello,'” Moreno recalled. “He said ‘Do you know him?’ I said ‘No,’ but it was a party and he was alone.”

The triple threat singer, dancer and actress was not prepared for what happened next.

“I went to her and I said, ‘Hello, I’m Rita Moreno’ and at that moment – you won’t believe this – she fell to the floor and she knelt down and she kept walking. and about how much he admired me all this time and all that kind of stuff,” he said. “But you know I almost peed myself.”

Moreno said he was by no means silent and was “shocked.”

In 1962, Moreno became the first Latina to win an Oscar when she received the Academy Award for supporting actress for her performance in the film version of the Broadway musical “West Side Story.”