Zooey Deschanel Talks About How 'New Girl' Execs Had to Hide the Kardashians From Prince

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Princedid not like the Kardashians. Who can forget the legendary time he booted Kim K. off his stage when she wouldn't dance during a concert. But that wasn't the only time the late pop icon clashed with the Kardashian clan.

According to Zooey Deschanel, when Prince made his memorable cameo on a season 3 episode of New Girl he was scheduled to appear in a scene with a variety of other celebrities. "He spent a lifetime cultivating mystique, and then one September day three years ago maybe I got an email from his manager saying he liked watching the show and wanted to come on," Deschanel explained to Conan O'Brien on Monday night's Conan (May 9).

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But, when Prince -- who died at age 57 on April 21 -- found out that some celebs were booked to appear at his TV party who he didn't think would actually be welcome at one of his real late-night throwdowns, things got super weird. "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," Deschanel said.

As she was studying her lines that day, though, a production assistant ran in and demanded all the scripts and call sheets with the names of the episode's participants, which the PA then tossed on a giant bonfire in the parking lot to destroy any evidence of the Kameos.

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"It turns out that someone from Prince's camp said 'Who are the celebrities? I hope it's not a Kardashian,'" she said.

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