LaChanze is the first actress to play the role of Celie in the musical version of The Color Purple and she now has a message for the movie’s producers.

The 62-year-old actress won a Tony Award in 2006 for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in the original production of The Color Purple. Fantasia Barrino, who is playing Celie in the movie, later took over the role six months after LaChanze left the show.

LaChanze took to Twitter on Tuesday (December 26) to share her thoughts on the movie and to make a demand from the producers.

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She said, “I am getting a lot of DM’s and posts about why I’ve been left out of the press as the original Celie in the @TheColorPurple (musical). I am thrilled for the movie’s success! Happy for all involved. However, I do want my royalty fee for the lyrics I added to ‘I’M HERE’. 💜”

In an interview with Time, LaChanze says that the composers of the musical asked her to describe how she was feeling while playing Celie.

“I said, ‘I wanna flirt with somebody, I know I got my sister. She can’t be with me. But she’s still my sister, and I know she loves me and my children.’ I didn’t put it together in the way they did, but my feelings, my emotions, and my thoughts about what I was experiencing as the actor embodying Celie they put in the song. So I like to say I helped write the song,” she said.

Listen to Fantasia‘s version of the song “I’m Here.”

The movie blew away expectations on its opening day and went to number one at the box office!