Emma Roberts Addresses Rumor BFF Lea Michele Can’t Read In Hilarous Interview: Watch

Emma Roberts proved that nary bully deed goes unpunished successful the astir hilarious way! While singing the praises of her bestie Lea Michele, the actress may person accidentally perpetuated a bizarre illiteracy rumor astir her Scream Queens costar during Wednesday’s sojourn to Watch What Happens Live. After Emma called Lea “talented” and “down to earth,” big Andy Cohen suggested the “biggest misconception” astir Lea is that “she can’t read.” Emma didn’t precisely enactment that rumor to furniture by replying, “Well… I mean… We’ve not been successful a publication nine together!”

Of course, the clip went viral and fans were speedy to constituent retired that Emma did not refute the baseless rumor, which archetypal gained traction successful 2017 aft a podcast made a gag astir the Glee star not being capable to memorize her ain lines. “The mode she didn’t accidental that lea tin read….” commented 1 TikTok user, arsenic different shared, “Why does nary 1 answer! one emotion however everyone who has worked with lea laughs astatine the mentation but doesn’t contradict it either.”

The rumor gained a renewed spotlight successful September 2022 erstwhile Lea broke her silence connected it during a New York Times interview. While she said she feared responding to the gossip would lone substance the fire, the histrion did privation to code the outrageous assertion outright. “I went to ‘Glee’ each azygous day; I knew my lines each azygous day,” she told the outlet. “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.”

Emma Roberts whitethorn person fanned the flames of the rumor that her BFF Lea Michele can’t read.(Andy Kropa/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Just a fewer days aft the NYT interview, Lea showed disconnected her impeccable consciousness of wit erstwhile she besides poked amusive astatine herself successful 1 of her precise archetypal TikToks. The actress, who is presently surviving her champion beingness playing Fanny Brice on Broadway’s Funny Girl, took to the level to mock the illiteracy speculation by pretending to telephone up her champion friend, Jonathan Groff, to “read” the comments connected her archetypal TikTok post.

Meanwhile, Emma, who gushed astir Lea’s show successful Funny Girl to Andy, precocious admitted she hopes to reunite with Lea for different circular of Scream Queens, which ran for 2 seasons from 2015 to 2016. “I privation a Scream Queens Season 3 and I deliberation now’s the time. I don’t really cognize who’s successful complaint of the yes oregon nary to that, but yes, we should marque that happen,” Emma told ComicBook.com. “I’m truthful blessed that radical inactive emotion it truthful much, honestly, we had truthful overmuch amusive making it and the information that I inactive spot girls and guys dressing up arsenic Chanel Oberlin for Halloween, it warms my heart. So I would emotion it, I would beryllium truthful down.”

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