My mother knows best.
Actress Nika King, who plays Zendaya’s mother on Euphoria, seemed to find humor in her one-line appearance in the latest episode of Season 3.
The 47-year-old actress took to Instagram on Sunday night to claim that most of her dialogue was completely cut out.
“I just watched the episode I’ve been promoting all week – and my mom here is making fun of me!” she said to the camera with a laugh.
King revealed that her mother was also laughing at her because “the internet was waiting for[her]to say one word.”
The mother then corrected the inaccuracy and added, “Three years!”
(Season 2 aired in 2022, so fans actually had to wait four years for season 3.)
In King’s video, she also says to her off-screen mother, “You should be glad I have a sense of humor. You should be glad I have thick skin.”
Page Six has reached out to HBO for comment.
In the episode titled “Stand Still and See,” Rue (Zendaya) narrowly avoids a head-on collision with a truck and has a near-death experience.
She then seeks solace in the church and calls her mother Leslie (King), telling her in a long emotional monologue that she is looking for salvation.
However, as King claimed, the camera only shows the end of Lou’s phone conversation until the camera cuts to the mother on the other end.
Leslie simply tells Lou that she loves him before the conversation ends.
The brief scene marks King’s first on-screen appearance in Euphoria since 2022, but fans are condemning the situation.
“I thought it was so weird that we couldn’t hear her lines and the conversation was completely one-sided,” one viewer wrote on Reddit, adding, “I wish we got to meet Lou’s mother, who we haven’t seen all season (…) at all.”
Another fan commented: “I didn’t know they were filming the entire conversation. Why would they leave it there?”
Fans said the episode was “boring” and full of “unnecessary scenes that could have been cut” if the show needed more space to show Lou’s mother.
Another viewer wrote: ‘Four minutes of Faye being a Nazi apologist.
“We (definitely) couldn’t have spent that much time listening to the main character’s mother,” they said.
King appeared throughout seasons one and two of the show, playing a single mother struggling to raise her drug-addicted teenage daughter.
King previously made headlines when he commented on his salary for “Euphoria” during a stand-up comedy set in 2024.
“Season 3 is coming out. I don’t know. Don’t ask me. I don’t know…’We need season 3!’ Bitch, we need season 3!” I haven’t paid rent in six months,” she said on stage during an appearance on Hollywood Improv.
She also claimed she hasn’t booked any roles since Euphoria, joking, “And Zendaya’s in Paris for fashion week. I’m like, bitch, I want you home! I need you! Mommy needs you!”
After the video went viral, King told The Hollywood Reporter that he meant his comments as a “lighthearted joke.”
This is just the latest point of contention in “Euphoria” season 3.
Previously, fans and critics have criticized the show for its writing about Jacob Elordi’s character Nate, which was severely out of character in season 3, and for Sidney Sweeney’s OnlyFans plot.
Artist Labyrinth, who participated in the show’s music for the first two seasons, also left the show under unclear circumstances and slammed the show, writing “FK EUPHORIA” in a since-deleted Instagram post.
“Euphoria” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO.
