Zooey Deschanel claims Prince wouldn't appear on New Girl with Kardashian

'Who are the celebrities? I hope it’s not a Kardashian?'

Prince gets down at the Conga Room in Los Angeles. (Kevin Winter/Getty)

Prince famously took umbrage with Kim Kardashian-West for daring to share a stage with him and then refusing to dance, unceremoniously kicking the reality TV star off his stage in 2011.

The late musician had apparently not forgiven Kim, or the Kardashian clan for that matter, by the time he came to appear as a special guest on New Girl in 2014.

In an appearance on Conan, New Girl star Zooey Deschanel recounted the moment Prince’s manager contacted her with a request for him to appear in an episode of the show. It was one of the few shows to feature a Prince cameo and he was due to appear in a party scene hosted by himself with other celebrities such as the model Alessandra Ambrosio.

But there was one problem: Prince had decided he would not be appearing alongside the Kardashians, who had also filmed cameos.

“Someone was friends with some of the Kardashians and had made a phone call and they had kindly come on to shoot a kind of cameo part,” explains Deschanel. “It turns out that someone from Prince’s camp said, ‘Who are the celebrities? I hope it’s not a Kardashian”.

She says staff on set were then running around to burn call sheets showing the Kardashians had been on set, because Prince was in charge.

“Which is sad because Khloe Kardashian and Kris Jenner had very kindly come in and shot the scene…I felt so bad cause obviously everyone had gone out of there way to be there on that day but Prince was running the show.”

Watch the segment here.