"I was on the stage with Prince?! Are you serious?" Even Beyonce couldn't help but be star-struck by the Purple One, as she recalled in a 2012 interview with Giant magazine, during which she discussed her 2004 Grammys performance with the late icon.
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"Of course I was terrified to be working with him," she recalls in the clip. "Walking into rehearsals, I was just so overwhelmed and nervous and star-struck. We rehearsed every day for an hour for a week, instead of six hours the day before. That was so smart, it was Prince's idea -- I guess he knows people are star-struck because he's so amazing. It made me really comfortable, by the time it was time to do it, it was second nature."