--- description: Saturday Night Fever actor John Travolta said he's been "beating himself up all day" over his flubbed Oscars introduction of Frozen star Idina Menzel, who performed that movie's hit song "Let It Go" at the Academy Awards title: John Travolta Apologizes for Butchering Idina Menzel’s Name at the Oscars image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23ae8acb1ae48f81/698683e635ba6f30dbc00c74/john-travolta-oscars-adele-dazeem.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Oscars](/tag/oscars/) ## Oscars Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # John Travolta Apologizes for Butchering Idina Menzel’s Name at the Oscars by [David Winograd](/author/david-winograd/) ## David Winograd Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 4, 2014 11:48 PM CUT  Presenter John Travolta speaks during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 2, 2014, in Los Angeles. Presenter John Travolta speaks during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 2, 2014, in Los Angeles.John Shearer—Invision/AP by [David Winograd](/author/david-winograd/) ## David Winograd Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 4, 2014 11:48 PM CUT After [botching his introduction](http://entertainment.time.com/2014/03/03/adele-dazeem-indina-menzel-john-travolta/ "undefined") to Broadway actress and _Frozen_ star Idina Menzel at Sunday night’s Oscars, John Travolta [issued an apology](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-john-travolta-idina-menzel-oscar-name-adele-dazeem-20140304,0,5629239.story#axzz2v1z1cCSw "undefined") of sorts Tuesday, but offered no explanation on why he called her “Adele Dazeem.” “I’ve been beating myself up all day,” Travolta said in an emailed statement to the _LA Times_. “Then I thought…what would Idina Menzel say, She’d say, Let it go, let it go! Idina is incredibly talented and I am so happy Frozen took home two Oscars Sunday night!” Menzel was at the Oscars performing “Let It Go,” the hit song from the animated picture. \[[LA Times](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-john-travolta-idina-menzel-oscar-name-adele-dazeem-20140304,0,5629239.story#axzz2v1z1cCSw "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/12572/john-travolta-apologizes-for-butchering-idina-menzels-name-at-the-oscars/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/12572/john-travolta-apologizes-for-butchering-idina-menzels-name-at-the-oscars/"},"headline":"John Travolta Apologizes for Butchering Idina Menzel’s Name at the Oscars","datePublished":"2014-03-04T23:48:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:34:46.343Z","description":"Saturday Night Fever actor John Travolta said he's been \"beating himself up all day\" over his flubbed Oscars introduction of Frozen star Idina Menzel, who performed that movie's hit song \"Let It Go\" at the Academy Awards","url":"https://time.com/12572/john-travolta-apologizes-for-butchering-idina-menzels-name-at-the-oscars/","keywords":["Oscars","Academy Awards","Idina Menzel"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23ae8acb1ae48f81/698683e635ba6f30dbc00c74/john-travolta-oscars-adele-dazeem.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"David Winograd","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/david-winograd/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23ae8acb1ae48f81/698683e635ba6f30dbc00c74/john-travolta-oscars-adele-dazeem.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Presenter John Travolta speaks during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 2, 2014, in Los Angeles.","caption":"Presenter John Travolta speaks during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 2, 2014, in Los Angeles.","creditText":"John Shearer—Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/oscars/","name":"Oscars"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/12572/john-travolta-apologizes-for-butchering-idina-menzels-name-at-the-oscars/","name":"John Travolta Apologizes for Butchering Idina Menzel’s Name at the Oscars"}}]}] ```