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Lea Michele Addresses Past Work Allegations & "Illiterate" Rumors
Emma Roberts is simply a pistillate of fewer words erstwhile it comes to responding to that Lea Michele conspiracy theory.
While appearing connected Bravo's Watch What Happens Live on Jan. 24, the American Horror Story alum was asked by whom what she thinks is the "biggest misconception" astir her erstwhile Scream Queens costar. Referencing a longtime rumor astir Michele, host Andy Cohen added, "The biggest misconception is that she can't read, right?"
"Well, I mean," Roberts stated, laughing, "We've not been successful a publication nine together."
Fellow guest Julie Bowen added, "Why is speechmaking truthful important, goddamn it! Let her not work if that's what she wants!"
Michele has herself poked amusive astatine the longstanding rumor that supposedly can't work oregon write. In September 2022, the Glee alum made her TikTok debut with a video depicting her calling her BFF and past co-star Jonathan Groff to person him "read maine the comments connected my archetypal TikTok."
In November, she erstwhile again addressed the rumor astir her literacy skills portion sharing a behind-the-scenes look down the signaling of the integer medium of the Funny Girl Broadway revival soundtrack. In the comments conception of different TikTok she posted, the histrion responded to a instrumentality who complimented her appearance, penning back, "These are the comments I similar to READ."
Another idiosyncratic added, "Why are we each commenting?? It's not similar she tin work it," to which Michele replied, "Lolllllll excessively funny! Have you heard the medium yet though???"
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Despite showcasing her consciousness of wit astir the illiteracy rumor, the actress has criticized it arsenic sexist. "I went to Glee every azygous day; I knew my lines each azygous day," Michele told The New York Times in an interrogation published past September. "And past there's a rumor online that I can't work oregon write? It's sad. It truly is. I deliberation often if I were a man, a batch of this wouldn't beryllium the case."
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