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Former Glee co-stars Lea Michele and Alex Newell reunited astatine the 2023 Tony Awards, wherever the second prima made past arsenic the archetypal non-binary performer to triumph a Tony. Lea, 36, shared a selfie of the brace connected Instagram to congratulate Alex, 30, connected winning the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor successful a Featured Role successful a Musical. The 2 stars — who seemingly person a analyzable past due to the fact that of the allegations against Lea regarding her behaviour connected the acceptable of Glee — had large smiles connected their faces successful the selfie. “Congratulations @thealexnewell !!!! @thetonyawards,” Lea wrote successful her caption.
Lea sat down Alex astatine the Tonys, and watched arsenic her erstwhile co-star got connected signifier to judge an grant for their relation successful the philharmonic Shucked. At the extremity of the show, Lea performed “Don’t Rain On My Parade” from her amusement Funny Girl. Despite receiving large appraise for her show successful the role, Lea was not eligible to beryllium nominated astatine the 2023 Tonys, since she was not an archetypal prima of the production. She replaced Beanie Feldstein successful the relation successful September 2022, and she’ll be with the show until it closes connected Broadway connected September 3.
Lea Michele; Alex Newell (Photo: Erik Pendzich/Andrew H. Walker/Shutterstock)
Before she returned to Broadway for Funny Girl, Lea was astatine the halfway of contention regarding her alleged behaviour on Glee. In 2020, respective of her erstwhile Glee castmates — including Samantha Ware — accused Lea of cruel and diva-like behaviour on-set. Alex, who played Unique Adams connected the Fox series, chimed successful connected the allegations against Lea astatine the time, by straight responding to Samantha’s tweet with a gif saying “Get her.” Alex shared another tweet astir Samantha’s claims against Lea wherever they wrote, “I’m gonna accidental this 1 time… erstwhile my friends goes done thing traumatic I besides spell done it… that’s what relationship is.”
Lea apologized for her alleged behavior and stayed retired of the spotlight for a while, until she landed Funny Girl. In February, Lea opened up astir the Glee controversy with Interview Magazine, and revealed that she had immoderate “healing” conversations with erstwhile formed mates aft the accusations came out. “I did a batch of idiosyncratic reach-outs,” the mom-of-one said. “The astir important happening was for everybody to conscionable instrumentality a measurement back. More than anything, I’m truthful grateful to person this accidental to use the things that I’ve learned implicit the past ten-plus years successful a affirmative way,” she added.
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