Emma Roberts jokes about the crazy rumors her friend Lea Michele can’t read: “Well, we haven’t been in a book club together, but…”
Emma Roberts slyly joked about crazy internet rumors that her friend and former co-star Lea Michele is illiterate.
While Emma, 31, was in See what happens live This week, a fan asked him to name “the biggest misconception” about Lea and host Andy Cohen said: “The biggest misconception is that she can’t read.”
“Well, we haven’t been in a book club together, but…” Julia Roberts’ niece said, and chuckled before saying, “No,” to indicate she was only kidding.
Dynamic duo: Emma Roberts slyly joked about wacky internet rumors that her friend and former co-star Lea Michele is illiterate; the couple is shown in 2019
Emma and Lea starred together in Ryan Murphy’s short-lived show Scream Queens amid a cast that included Keke Palmer and Abigail Breslin.
Lea has now scored a career triumph with a widely acclaimed run in the Broadway revival of Barbra Streisand’s 1960s vehicle, Funny Girl.
The current production originally opened with Jonah Hill’s sister Beanie Feldstein in the helm, but after a series of scathing reviews, Lea replaced her.
Emma said on Watch What Happens Live that she went to see Lea in Funny Girl and “was in tears at the end” of the musical.
Talk show circuit: Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen offered that the “biggest misconception” about Lea “is that she can’t read”
Cheeky: “Well, we haven’t been in a book club together, but…” Julia Roberts’ niece said, and giggled before saying, “No,” to indicate she was just kidding.
She said while Lea was on stage ‘she looked at me, and I told my friend, I was like, ‘I think she saw me!’ And my friend says, “Emma, she didn’t see you, shut up.”
Emma gleefully recalled, “And then I go backstage and she’s like, ‘I saw you,’ and I’m like, ‘I knew! I knew we hooked up.'”
While promoting her Funny Girl concert at the New York Times last year, Lea said that the rumors she can’t read were misogynistic.
‘I went on Glee every day; I knew my lines every day,” she said, referring to the Ryan Murphy show that propelled her to TV stardom.
Here’s how they were: Emma and Lea starred together in Ryan Murphy’s short-lived show Scream Queens (pictured) amid a cast that included Keke Palmer and Abigail Breslin.
‘And then there’s a rumor online that I can’t read or write? It’s sad. Really is. I often think that if I were a man, much of this would not be the case.’
Lea first became a Broadway star as a teenager in the original 2006 production of the animated rock musical Spring Awakening.
She reached new heights of fame as high school diva Rachel Berry on Glee, who enjoyed a wildly successful run from 2009 to 2015.
Victory: Lea has now scored a career triumph with a widely acclaimed run in the Broadway revival of Barbra Streisand’s 1960s vehicle, Funny Girl.
In 2020, when she posted in support of Black Lives Matter, her black Glee co-star Samantha Ware accused Lea of bullying her on set.
‘Remember when you made my first TV concert hell?!?!’ Samantha stated. Because I’ll never forget it… I think you told everyone that if you had the chance, you’d “shit in my wig”! among other traumatic microaggressions that made me question a career in Hollywood.’
Samantha’s allegations sparked a publicity storm and prompted a public apology from Lea, who vowed to “be better in the future.”