Lea Michele's controversial casting in Funny Girl and all of the drama surrounding it has brought up an outdated rumor in regards to the Glee actress.
There has been a long term rumor/ funny story that the 36-year-old struggles to read. Recently, the story has re-appeared, forcing the musical theater famous person to address it. Internet sleuths believe the story began in 2017, in connection to her late co-star Naya Rivera's memoir and then it was inspired through a podcast known as "One More Thing."
In an open interview with The New York Times, Michele she spoke about allegations of bullying in opposition to her as well as her talent to read. So, the place did this strange rumor come from and is there any reality to it?
9 Lea Michele Believes The Rumor She Can't Read Is Sexist
“I went to ‘Glee’ each and every unmarried day; I knew my strains each unmarried day,” Michele advised The New York Times just lately. “And then there’s a rumor online that I will’t read or write? It’s unhappy. It in reality is. I think continuously if I have been a man, a large number of this wouldn’t be the case.”
In 2018, she replied to a Twitter person who requested her about her reading degree, "Loved READING this tweet and wanted to WRITE you back. Literally laughing out loud at all this. Love you!!” she wrote in a now deleted tweet.
Earlier this year Lea joked about the theory at an event with a group of high school theater students. "I didn’t go to college you guys, and take a look at me. There is a rumor online that I will not read or write, which can have something to do with [that] fact.”
8 When Did The Rumor That Lea Michele Can't Read Start?
The rumor first become standard after Glee actress Naya Rivera wrote in her memoir that Michele refused to improvise all through a scene. The scene involved TV legend Tim Conway and her attitude it seems that made his granddaughter cry.
"One More Thing" podcast hosts Jaye Hunt and Robert Ackerman joked that Michele must not be able to read since she by no means commented on Rivera’s story. Social media picked up the funny story and turned it right into a meme.
7 Video About Lea Michele Being Illiterate Appeared On Facebook
This conversation inspired a 40-minute-long Ted Talk-style are living video on Facebook referred to as “Lea Michele Is Illiterate”.
The video has since been taken down however not before the content made its technique to Twitter. The podcasters had a concept that as a result of Lea Michele was once a kid superstar (she made her Broadway debut in Les Miserables at 8 years outdated), she never had the time to discover ways to read.
They additionally had evidence of Michele apparently pretending to read on talk shows and confirmed images of her assistant reading from the Scream Queen actress' telephone. Although the video was meant in good humor, it is unsure if the actress herself took it this way.
6 Has Lea Michele Read In Public?
Lea Michele has read in public, but it surely hasn't stopped the rumors, jokes and memes. Michele has participated within the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Storyline Online sequence, reading the children’s ebook Rosie Revere, Engineer on video.
There is evidence of her studying a book out loud on video and a background actor on Glee once recounted a time when she allegedly read tweets about her and got his then-boyfriend fired over them. But then, a video of her at an awards ceremony it seems that struggling to read the card has long gone viral.
5 Did Lea Michele Pre-Sign Her Book?
Other "evidence" that Lea Michele can't read incorporated within the now deleted video includes a clip of Michele signing her title handiest her name seems to be already written for her. So she has to underline the name or place the sharpie simply above the page.
Although, she has launched two books, Brunette Ambition, and You: Journal Your Way to Your Best Life, each include extra footage, recipes, and exercises than exact writing.
4 The Rumor Feeds Into Why Lea Michele Works With Ryan Murphy
The undeniable fact that she went from working on Glee with Ryan Murphy to running on Scream Queens with the creator/director simplest added fuel to the fireplace. Some internet commentators consider that Murphy knows her secret and would read strains to her until she memorized them.
It doesn't help that her character, the gifted but ambitious Rachel Berry, seems to be so very similar to her real-life persona.
3 Jameela Jamil Defends Lea Michele Against Rumor She Can't Read
Stars have come out in defense over Lea Michele and the attached rumors. The Good Place actress just lately Jameela Jamil slammed people who are perpetuating the rumor and explained on her Instagram tales why it’s harmful to make false claims that any person is illiterate.
“I see a lot of other folks claiming a certain actress can’t read… after which laughing at her. Whatever your issue with any person, and I don’t know this woman, or anything else about her, however laughing on the concept of *any person* now not having the ability to read makes YOU seem like a pr***. An elitist, ableist bore. It’s embarrassing for you, now not them,” Jameela wrote.
Jameela added, “Don’t let the particles of your bullets intended for some… hit the ones you weren’t aiming at. Some other people can’t read because of disability, studying disabilities, some can’t as a result of a loss of access to education. Your words and movements also have an effect on them. If you’re so f**king sensible, discover a smarter technique to insult the folks you think are bad.”
2 Darren Criss Laughs Off Rumors That Lea Michele Can't Read
"So there’s a lot of speculations that Lea Michele cannot read or write,” her Glee -costar Darren Criss addressed the camera in a Facebook Live video from 2018, panning over to Michele in the background. "But that’s now not true!"
"She can’t read, write or talk! She can’t even swim or stroll!" he joked, as Michele burst into laughter. "She can’t do anything else!”
1 Is Lea Michele Using The 'Can't Read' Rumors To Cover Up Those Bullying Allegations?
In the recent New York Times piece, Lea Michele seemed glad to deal with the illiteracy rumors but no longer the multiple bullying allegations. Some consider she is using this previous shaggy dog story to make herself the victim.
Fellow Glee celebrity Samantha Ware prior to now claimed Michele “publicly humiliated her” on set and threatened to get her fired and to “s***” in her wig. Daybreak actor Jeante Godlock accused Michele of relating to Glee’s background actors as “cockroaches,” and Heather Morris has said Michele was once “ugly” to paintings with and “should be referred to as out” for it.
Michele apologized for her habits after the allegations surfaced in 2020, announcing she would take time to “reflect” on her “shortcomings.”
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