John Travolta finally explains last year's Idina Menzel flub, blames Goldie Hawn

(Image credit: Jimmy Kimmel Live)

last updated 23 February 2015

In his bit with Idina Menzel at Sunday's Academy Awards, "apparently I played with her chin too much," John Travolta told Jimmy Kimmel in his post-Oscars Jimmy Kimmel Live. "You can never play with a woman's chin too much," Kimmel assured him, hopefully in jest.

But that was prelude to Travolta finally coming clean about why he so famously mangled Menzel's name at last year's ceremony. It's a long story involving a page trapped in an elevator, Goldie Hawn's lips, and a change in the teleprompter. Is is plausible? Well, why not? But Menzel holds no ill-feelings, Travolta said, since the past year has been the best in her life. Watch Travolta's story below. —Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.

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