Usher went diva during a recent taping for his performance on Tuesday night’s Season Finale of Dancing with the Stars 5. The “Love In This Club” star, whose fifth album “Here I Stand” hits stores next Tuesday, May 27th, arrived late, sluggishly performed his dance routine, and took long-winded “water” breaks during the shoot; although show producers had only fifteen minutes to get Usher’s performance taped and ready to roll.

“He was ridiculous. Such a diva.”

People Magazine reports:

First, the 29-year-old singer arrived late, throwing the entire production behind schedule. Then, while appearing to lip-synch two songs—”Yeah!” and “Love in This Club”—he fell out of step with his choreography, turning the wrong way once and losing his mic a second time. With each mistake he walked offstage.

“The [dancers] were all at their trailers ten minutes before the show was supposed to go live, like, ‘Don’t we have a live show to do? There was a lot of holdup. We almost didn’t [make it].”