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Lea Michele Jokes About Needing to "Learn to Read"
Jonathan Groff is uncovering glee successful the absurdity of conspiracy theories.
The Tony-winning performer spoke retired connected the internet-fueled rumors that assertion his champion person Lea Michele can't read.
While appearing connected the Oct. 10 episode of the Tactful Pettiness podcast, Jonathan was asked if he'd heard "the rumor astir Lea Michele."
"That she can't read?" helium responded. "Of course."
The 39-year-old past laughed arsenic hosts Cody Rigsby and Andrew Chappelle peppered him with questions similar whether he'd ever seen her read, erstwhile he'd seen her speechmaking and what she was speechmaking erstwhile helium witnessed her successful the act.
"I person seen her read," Jonathan said. "Oh, my god. LOL. Wait, bash you truly deliberation she can't read? How does that adjacent get started?"
The cohosted replied that "of course" they don't really judge the rumor, but they "do privation to cognize erstwhile [he's] seen her read."
"Did you spot her speechmaking the euphony stand?" Andrew asked. "Like, was she speechmaking her lines, oregon did she travel successful disconnected book?"
"That's a large example!" Jonathan laughed. "No, she did not travel successful disconnected book. Oh, my god, that's truthful funny."
And erstwhile and for all, Jonathan added, "Let it beryllium known. We're dispelling it."
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The rumor astir the Glee prima stems from a 2017 occurrence of the One More Thing successful which it was theorized arsenic to why, arsenic Lea's precocious co-star Naya Rivera claimed successful her memoir, Lea refused to improvise connected the show.
In the years since, the gag has picked up steam online and subsequently go much of an existent rumor.
And, portion this was Jonathan's archetypal clip addressing the claim, Lea has alluded to the mentation galore times now—even invoking Jonathan's sanction connected 1 occasion.
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In 1 of her archetypal ever TikTok videos posted successful September 2022, Lea poked amusive astatine the rumor portion lip-syncing to the viral Kim Kardashian sound, "Hey, tin you speech for a sec?" She hilariously wrote, "calling Jonathan to work maine the comments connected my archetypal TikTok," connected the cheeky clip.
Earlier that month, though, Lea had taken a much superior approach to discussing the rumor.
"I went to Glee each azygous day; I knew my lines each azygous day," the Funny Girl prima told the New York Times astatine the time. "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."
Two months later, she continued to gag astir with the theory, however, responding to a fan's TikTok remark that said, "how is she looking younger?! they blessed her with those gooddd genes," by writing, "These are the comments I similar to READ."
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