Lea Michele Mocks Rumor She Can’t Read In Hilarious TikTok About Streisand’s New Memoir

Lea Michele is decidedly successful connected the joke. The histrion took to TikTok connected Feb. 8 to uncover her absorption to the quality that 1 of her inspirations, Barbra Streisand, volition beryllium releasing a memoir successful November. Lea filmed herself looking ace excited astir the news. In the background, her substance read, “265 days to larn however to READ!!!!!!” on with immoderate publication emojis. The substance is simply a notation to the rumor that Lea is illiterate, which began arsenic a conspiracy mentation years ago.

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While Lea spent years not wasting her enactment connected addressing the rumor, she did break her silence astir the mentation successful a Sept. 2022 interview.  She specifically addressed the mentation that she had to beryllium fed her lines connected Glee due to the fact that she couldn’t work the scripts. “I went to Glee every azygous day. I knew my lines each azygous day,” Lea told The New York Times. “And 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.”

Just days later, Lea proved that she tin present gag astir the rumors, though. She posted a TikTok to spoof the illiteracy rumors, which featured her mouthing a agelong to a soundbite of Kim Kardashian successful tears. Lea captioned the video, “Calling Jonathan [Groff] to work maine the comments connected my archetypal TikTok.” In the clip, Kim’s dependable tin beryllium heard saying, “It’s amazing, but wait, tin you speech for a sec?” with the dependable of tears astatine the backmost of her throat.

Meanwhile, Lea’s excitement implicit Barbra’s memoir is not surprising. She is simply a longtime instrumentality of the actress, and is presently playing Fanny Brice successful Broadway’s Funny Girl, a relation that Barbra originated. In December, Lea opened up astir getting a missive from Barbra successful her dressing room. “It was precise sweet,” she revealed. “She wrote maine this beauteous letter. But 1 happening she said successful it, she was like, ‘It’s truly fantastic erstwhile your dreams travel true, isn’t it’? And I conscionable similar fell to my knees.”

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