Natasha Lyonne's Famous Friends (And What They've Had To Say About Her)

Natasha Lyonne and actor Michael Rapaport have a rocky past, to say the least. Rapaport was once Lyonne's landlord, and it didn't go so well. He wrote about the experience in a 2005 article in the now-defunct Jane magazine titled "Evicting Natasha Lyonne." "People were going in and out of the apartment, [one of the tenants] was telling me about the late-night parties, and random dudes sprawled out on her sofa at all times. [Another tenant] had a little dinner party. Natasha was screaming up at them throughout the party," he wrote.

Lyonne had been going through a difficult time and was able to look back on the experience with empathy. "At the time, I didn't understand, but now it's like, if I owned a nice brownstone — and [someone] was constantly moving pianos while listening to Richard Pryor CDs, and trying to figure out how to play 'Easy Like Sunday Morning' on the piano for days at a time — I would potentially be pissed too. It's the fallout of shenanigan-based behavior," she told EW.

Rapaport has since praised Lyonne and spoken about the status of their friendship. "We're totally reconciled, we're good friends, and she's like a sister to me. So we're cool," he said on a "Watch What Happens Live After Show" in 2016 (via Bravo TV). "And she's good people, and she's a solid person and a great actress. She got good hair."

Lyonne even impersonated her former landlord when she hosted "SNL" in 2022. Even though the sketch was cut for time, it has made the rounds online, and we like to think Lyonne's former landlord enjoyed the ribbing. The audience sure did!

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