Debra Messing Tests Positive for COVID-19 Ahead of New Year's Eve

Photo: Sylvain Gaboury/gettyDebra Messinghas tested positive for the coronavirus just one day before New Year’s Eve.“I’m COVID POSITIVE. Yup. Happy New Year! Actually, it is the perfect end to 2021. The juicy cherry on the proverbial cake,” theWill & Graceactress, 53, captioned a photo of herself on Instagram on Thursday, in which she can be seen with a sheet mask on her face and a pink hair bonnet over her head.

Debra Messing Was 'Tricked into Signing a Nudity Waiver' and 'Sexually Harassed' on First Film

Debra Messingrevealed that she was sexually harassed on her very first Hollywood film. “It wasn’t until we started having these conversations that I realized I had been sexually harassed,” theWill & Gracestar, 49, began. “I had said, ‘Oh, that’s the business. And then all of a sudden, I was like, ‘Wait a minute, no, that’s not the business. I was sexually harassed.’ ” Jared Siskin/Getty Images When she arrived on set for the scene, Messing said the producers changed their story.

Debra Winger Recalls Turning Down Diet Pills After Being Told She Looked 'Puffy' on Camera

Photo: Paul Morigi/Getty Images Debra Wingeris recounting an early-career moment when she was offered diet pills on set to make her look thinner on camera. In a recent interview withThe Telegraph, the actress, 66, recalled making the 1982 filmAn Officer and a Gentleman, for which she earned one of her three Oscar nominations for Best Actress. At one point on set, Winger remembers someone telling her to take water retention pills because she looked “puffy in the dailies,” which is raw footage from daily production shoots.

Debra Winger Says She Quit 'A League of Their Own' Over Madonna Casting Because It Became 'Elvis Film'

Photo: Donna Ward/Getty Images; Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for A+E Debra Wingerisn’t being coy about why she walked away fromA League of Their Own. The Oscar-nominated actress, 66,toldThe Telegraphthatshe backed out of the 1992 Penny Marshall movie after pop star Madonna was cast to play one of the athletes in the film’s ensemble. Winger said she felt it was shaping up to be “an Elvis film,” not the project Winger spent three months seriously training for with the Chicago Cubs baseball team.

Debra Winger Shuts Down Andy Cohen in Super Awkward Interview: 'Let's Get Something Straight'

Debra Winger is not here to playAndy Cohen‘s games — literally. The acclaimed actress was a guest on Cohen’sWatch What Happens Live withAndy CohenTuesday night where she played his popular game “Plead the Fifth.” The segment features Cohen asking celebrity guests three personal questions, though they’re allowed to not answer one of them if they choose. After Winger, 63, insinuated that Harvey Weinstein was the “the biggest pig or misogynist” she’d ever met in Hollywood while answering the first question, Cohen, 50, went on to ask about her rumored fraught relationship with former costar Shirley MacLaine.