“We actually never went upstairs and interacted with anyone … This whole story is a lie.”

Ellen Durney

BuzzFeed Staff

Zendaya is setting the record straight on false claims that she was awkwardly turned away from a restaurant in Rome.

A report published on Monday suggested that the Dune star had an “embarrassing moment” in the Italian capital over the weekend when she was apparently denied entry to Terrazza Borromini due to her clothing.

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Photographs in the article show Zendaya walking in and out of the eatery dressed in a black, strapless crop top and beige pants. According to the outlet, the casual outfit did not adhere to the restaurant’s “strict dress code,” and she was turned away as a result.

However, despite the claims that she looked “unimpressed” as she was “rejected” by stern restaurant staff, Zendaya and her team are keen to make it clear that this was not the case at all.

Soon after the reports surfaced online, Zendaya’s friend and assistant, Darnell Appling, took to social media to correct the narrative.

“Well this is a bald head lie,” he wrote on his Instagram story alongside a screenshot of the article in question. “We never got denied anywhere.”

Darnell — who was with Zendaya at the time of the mix-up — explained that the reason they were photographed walking away from the restaurant so soon after they arrived was because they “walked into the building [and] realized we ate there before.”

Armed with receipts, he also pointed out...

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