Alyson Stoner found fame thanks to their role as a dancer in Missy Elliott’s “Work It” video, but that doesn’t mean they’ve kept in touch with the hip-hop icon. In a TikTok posted Aug. 9, Stoner, 32, used the viral song “I Have One Daughter” from creator Lewky to explain their answer to a question that, they wrote in the caption, they’re “asked every week.” “Do you still talk to Missy Elliott?” Stoner asks in the video in the persona of a curious fan. “Oh, I was 9. That was 23 years ago,” the former child star says. The person follows up, “Yea so can’t you just call her up?” Stoner replies, “... I was 9. We never hung out. It would’ve been inappropriate.” “So you weren’t friends?” the person continues. Stoner reiterates, “I was 9. A literal child.” But the person is undeterred, asking, “Could you ask her to perform at my wedding?” Stoner looks at the camera in horrified silence, then answers, “What the hell…” The video racked up over 435,000 likes and over 5 million views. Stoner also liked some comments from fans, including one who remembered a widespread rumor at the time that Elliott, 54, had adopted them. Elliott’s “Work It” came out in 2002 and reached No. 2 on the Hot 100. The music video won Video of the Year at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. Stoner went on to appear as a dancer in three more Elliott videos, for songs "Gossip Folks,” "Pass That Dutch" and “I’m Really Hot.” They also danced in the video for Eminem’s "Just Lose It.” While Stoner was working as a dancer, they also worked as an actress, starring in Disney’s Mike's Super Short Show, and appearing on episodes of Drake & Josh, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and That's So Raven. They also starred in movies like Cheaper by the Dozen, Step Up and Camp Rock. As a voice actor, they worked on shows like Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Young Justice and Phineas and Ferb. They reprised their role in Phineas and Ferb for the show’s return this year. This week, Stoner publishes their memoir, Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything. They told PEOPLE last October about the book, “If I was going to pen a memoir, I needed to be certain it carried a lot of weight within its pages, both personally and collectively. At face value, it reveals the truths that I’ve held closest — details left unsaid because of legal contracts, stories not even my family and friends know and an extremely intimate journey of mental health and self-development.” “I’m eager for this to serve as a larger reckoning for Hollywood and society,” they said. Now, Stoner is the host of the award-winning Dear Hollywood podcast and CEO of mental health company Movement Genius. They also appeared in the 2024 documentary Child Stars, directed by their former Disney Channel costar Demi Lovato. As for “Work It,” Stoner told Vibe in 2017, “To this day, I’m really grateful for Missy and whoever’s idea it was [to put kids in the video]. They had to have been thinking about making a statement that’s still applicable today that kind of bridges the gap between different lifestyles and different people through music.”