Jennifer Coolidge Thanks Ariana Grande For Giving Her Career A Boost: ‘I Was Going Through A Dead Zone, Not Much Going On’

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Jennifer Coolidge has Ariana Grande to thank for giving her career a boost. The actress chatted to Jimmy Fallon on Thursday’s “Tonight Show” and was asked whether she’d seen some of the impressions that guests had done of her on the show.

After airing Chloe Fineman’s, Fallon then showed viewers Grande’s impression from a few years ago. READ MORE: Jennifer Coolidge Reads ‘The Night Before Christmas’ As Only She Can Coolidge, who starred in Grande’s “Thank U Next” music video, shared, “You should know, it was sort of the beginning of a lot of cool things that happened for me.

I was going through a dead zone, not much was going on. “Then Ariana did this imitation on your show and you encouraged her.

And then this ball got rolling.” She added, “My friend who is her age, Theresa, she was like, ‘You should DM Ariana.’ I thought it was such a good imitation and I was like, ‘No, she’s got like 260 million followers.