Host Eric Williams asked Benanti if her memories of Levi have changed now that he’s “become such a monster,” seemingly referring to the actor’s decision to support Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election and his pushing conspiracy theories online.

“I never liked him,” Benanti said. “Everyone was like, ‘He’s so great!’ And I was like, ‘No, he’s not. He’s sucking up all the f–king energy in this room. He wants to mansplain everybody’s part to them,'” Benanti said. “He really sucked everybody in with his dance party energy, like, ‘We’re doing a dance party at half-hour.’ I was like, ‘Good luck, have fun.'”

The Tony winner then slammed Levi for his controversial comments about their late She Loves Me costar, Gavin Creel, in which he appeared to suggest that Creel’s death was due to him getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

Creel died at the age of 48 in September following a battle with a rare form of cancer called metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma.

“A few weeks ago, my friend Gavin Creel died. He was 48 years old, and he was one of the healthiest people I knew,” Levi said in an Instagram Live in October. “… You better believe that, with everything in me, I believe that if these COVID vaccinations were not forced on the American public.”