Sorry, Beyhive! Beyoncé was never going to appear at the Democratic National Convention this year, despite various rumors and reports from outlets confirming otherwise.

As The Root previously reported, the internet was buzzing on the last night of the DNC, anxiously awaiting Queen Bey to hit the stage. While rumors circulated around a possible Bey appearance for quite some time, things got serious when TMZ confirmed her attendance (a mistake they have since apologized for). In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Executive Producer and Director of the convention, Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, broke down the Beyoncé of it all.

“We never put out anything about Beyoncé,” Kishner told the outlet while revealing that even people on his staff were convinced the “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer might be a part of the programming. “We denied it every time the media asked us — even though, by the way, people on my staff didn’t believe me. I kept getting texts from news organizations saying, ‘When is Beyoncé coming out?’… But come on, we have the biggest star, the Democratic nominee for president,” Kishner continued. “Why would we overshadow that?”

Weiss added, “This is the internet taking on a life of its own and people taking something as fact — literally to the point that people in my booth are saying, ‘Is she coming? You can tell me.’ And I would say, ‘I have no knowledge she’s coming.’ And they would say, ‘No knowledge? So there’s something to know!’”

Weiss said the rumors were crazy.  “But she wasn’t coming. In the end even TMZ [which first reported it] had to issue an apology.”

As we reported last week, the internet had hilarious reactions to the Beyoncé mix-up, with fans taking to X (formerly known as Twitter) with their thoughts on it. Check out some of the responses here.