Nicole Scherzinger reveals career plans after Tony Awards Win
Nicole Scherzinger says her Tony Award win is part of a “healing process” after years of feeling disrespected and disregarded by the entertainment industry. Former X Factor judge Nicole broke down in tears when accepting the best actress honour for her role on Sunset Boulevard praising her family and fiance Thom Evans for his continued support
She had detailed her upset and frustration at being treated like a pop flop and “put in a box” for over a decade after the Pussycat Dolls success.
The American star now plans to build a movie career and continue stage shows, including creating her own, asserting: “I’d love to do it all.”
Nicole, 46, was told applying for stage and screen roles was a “a waste of time” for over a decade and branded nothing more than a past it girl band star.
The star feels vindicated to have financially banked and created her own solo show, performing show tunes, at small venues across London and the US. Nicole, who won an Olivier Award for her debut role portraying Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, celebrated her victory with a pizza.
Nicole admitted: “This has been a very healing process for me. I always felt like I wasn’t living in my full potential and full purpose. I was never happy with myself. It is because I knew I had so much more to give. And this role and this opportunity allowed me to give all of me. It’s changed my life.
“But it has been hard. It has not been an easy road. I am so grateful that I am able to connect to people on a spiritual and soulful level and I could make a difference in these people’s lives.
“That is exactly what we do it for. So I am thankful.”
She added: “I am living in my dream. This is my childhood dream come true. I feel like I win every night when people tell me the impact of how my performances impact them. This has been 30 years in the making and I’ve been working and fighting for this my whole life.
“I am completely out of my mind. I just want to go home and cry for a very long time. I won a Tony against an unbelievable category of (women) But I have come home (Broadway) and am back where I was born to be. I mean this – Love always wins.”
On stage collecting the gong at the NYC Radio City Music Hall event, she praised her rugby star partner Thom Evans for his ongoing support.
“For my fiance Thom who believes in me, when I forget to believe in myself.” She added “Andrew Lloyd Webber, it’s happened. It’s been such an honour to create with you.”
Her desire is to continue singing and making music, but in movie musicals or create her own stage show.
Nicole, who wore a blood red custom dress to resemble the final scene of the Broadway hit, added: “I want to do it all. I would like to do movies and movie musicals. I would like to build my own show. There are roles I would like to create.
“It’s validating and it’s fulfilling because I know that I’m on the right path. I know I’m back where I was born to be.
“When you see the show, you see the real depths of me as an actor and as a singer and your voice and the range as well. I want to encourage people to keep an open mind and an open heart. You never know where your unexpected dream opportunity is going to come from.”
Nicole reflected on her tough mental battle to bounce back from constant rejection after being written off as a failed pop artist
Nicole admitted: “Like so many people, I was put in a box. it is hard when you feel like your whole career, you’ve been fighting to be seen and fighting to show what you’re truly capable of.
“Ten years back after The Dolls, I really wanted to go back to doing musical theater stuff. It’s like where my heart whisper is. And there was no path to do that.
“People weren’t even allowing me to be seen for filmed musicals and some live stuff going on.
“They just wouldn’t even consider seeing me, (they were saying) ‘ that’s going to be a waste of our time. ‘ I was like, ‘they’re not taking me seriously.
“So I got to educate them. “So I put on a show exactly six years ago in 2019, I put my money up and did all the songs and the roles I always dreamed of playing that nobody would let me. I created my own show of an hour and 20 minutes.
“I brought it to New York, London, and la and I just put it out there in the universe.”
Nicole is grateful that respected producer Jamie Lloyd took a chance on her talent as “Nobody else would’ve have asked me.
“He came to me with the idea of playing Norma Desmond. He actually dreamed of me. Isn’t that crazy?”
Nicole and the team were huge Olivier Award winners with seven gongs. including best musical revival.It equalled the record for the most prizes for a musical at the ceremony.
Other winners included Succession star Sarah Snook taking best leading actress in a play, for performing all 26 roles in a one-woman stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. And Purpose, about an African-American family who reunite in Chicago, was named best play, a month after winning the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
One of the original Desmond Broadway performers, multiple Oscar nominee Glenn Close has publicly praised Nicole’s work.
She added to Sirius XM: “Glenn was intense, because she originated the role. She wrote to me in a card ‘to my soul mate’.
“It is validating. It is words of affirmation when what you put out, what you’re so passionate about and what you put out is being received with the intention that you put it out and received not from your peers, but even giants before you. It’s affirming,”
The 46-year-old recently spoke of how Thom has been a rock to her during her two year run and they plan to wed after her show run.
Asked directly “will you get married soon? ” , Nicole relied: “Yes, we will get married. We’re engaged – to be married when I’m not working.
“Thank God he is so patient. We’ll get married back home in Hawaii, where my family is from.”
Dolls founder Robin Antin installed Nicole as lead singer in 2003, leading them to huge hits, tours and endorsements until 2010.
Source: Mirror
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