Idina Menzel’s son is not all the time her greatest fan.

Whereas showing on Thursday’s episode of Immediately with Hoda & Jenna, the Frozen actress, 52, revealed that her son Walker, 13, would not all the time wish to hear his mother sing.

“You’ve got a 14-year-old son, about to be 14. So what does he suppose when he sees you sing?” Hoda Kotb, 59, asks Menzel.

“He is tremendous happy with me when he really sees me sing,” says the “Let It Go” singer. “But it surely’s at house that he simply kinda tells me to be quiet.”

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“What about within the automotive?” asks co-host Jenna Bush Hager, 41.

“Oh, within the automotive, if I sing in entrance of his mates…Effectively no, he would not simply give me the stink eye, he’ll be like, ‘Mother, zip it.,'” Menzel shares.

“What would you be singing for him within the automotive?” Kotb asks.

“Something! In all probability hip-hop, like Jay-Z or one thing. I am attempting to sing alongside and that is utterly embarrassing,” Menzel says.

The star shares her son with ex-husband Taye Diggs, 52.

In June, the actress appeared on an episode of SiriusXM’s Fierce: Ladies in Music and talked about being an ally and elevating her mixed-race son. “They’re taking youngsters’s books that talk to gender and non-binary children, and taking them out of faculties,” Menzel started. “I imply, it is simply so upsetting, actually. And so what we’ve to do is maintain combating.”

“I do not suppose it is the identical factor with…I’ve a mixed-race son. I believe it is with lots of my Black mates too. It isn’t their job. The onus is not on them to vary the world and educate individuals. It is on us, you recognize?”

“So we’ve to get on the market and struggle on their behalf and struggle for coverage and the training in faculties and coaching for academics, particularly with the LGBTQ youth and, you recognize, trainers, father or mother consciousness, all of these things,” the Lease star continued.

“My son went to an elementary faculty that was dealt with superbly,” she mentioned. “His understanding of a few of his non-binary mates really did not even faze him. There wasn’t an understanding, [he] would not even give it some thought.”

“It simply is what it’s and that is the way it ought to be.”