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Glee's Mr. Schuester Was Originally a "Meth Addict"
Amber Riley is pleading the fifth.
In an exclusive clip of Dec. 9's occurrence of ZIWE, the Glee alum crumbles nether the unit of Ziwe's enactment of questioning astir her erstwhile castmate (and current Funny Girl) Lea Michele.
"Speaking of getting down successful the muck, you said that 1 of your celebrated co-workers wasn't racist," Ziwe noted, referring to a 2020 Instagram Live wherever Riley said she wasn't "going to say" that Michele was racist. "Did you mean that she was?"
Riley covered her look successful response, groaning arsenic a mentation of the Glee music plays successful the background. "Ohh, Ziwe. Umm...next question. I don't adjacent cognize however to reply that."
Faced with the comedian's pointed silence, Riley continued hemming and hawing. "Umm...I don't cognize which co-worker you're talking about. I had truthful many." Then, a graphic of an Uno reverse paper pops up.
But anyone who watches ZIWE knows the Desus & Mero alum wasn't going to halt there, asking Riley instead, "Would you accidental that your celebrated co-worker doesn't spot race, and is successful information rude to each of her co-workers?"
Then, Riley yet had a consecutive answer.
"I deliberation that she would astir apt accidental she doesn't spot race," the Masked Singer winner replied. "But arsenic we discussed earlier, everyone does."
But that isn't the lone clip Ziwe brings up her clip connected the long-running Fox series, asking Riley if Glee was a "race war," to which Riley responded, "it would necessitate antithetic races. I was the lone Black one."
Elsewhere successful the interview, Ziwe asks Riley astir her debut azygous "Colorblind" and her Dancing With the Stars season 17 triumph (for which Ziwe called her the "Nelson Mandela of ABC creation competitions").
Watch a preview above, and you tin find the afloat episode when it begins streaming connected Dec. 9. It volition premiere connected Showtime Dec. 11 astatine 11 p.m. ET.
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