Lea Michele Reveals The Sweet Letter Barbra Streisand Sent To Her after Landing ‘Funny Girl’ Role

Lea Michele is inactive fangirling implicit the relation she shares with surface fable Barbra Streisand. And connected the Monday, December 5 occurrence of Late Night With Seth Meyers, the 36-year-old histrion revealed what happened erstwhile Babs sent her a missive aft getting the pb relation successful Funny Girl. “Oh my god, I did, I yet heard from Barbra,” Lea told big Seth Meyers. “I got to enactment the different time and my dresser… had this golden envelope. It was like, I don’t know, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory getting invited. I would deliberation it would get connected doves.” Seth asked if it was heavy, to which the Glee alum joked, “No, it was airy arsenic a featha’,” successful Barbra’s chiseled voice.

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And arsenic for the contents? “It was precise sweet, she wrote maine this beauteous letter,” she said. “One happening she said successful it, she was like, ‘It’s truly fantastic erstwhile your dreams travel true, isn’t it?’ And I fell to my knees. I called Ryan Murphy, my mom, Jonathan Groff, and Michael Mayer. I was like, ‘These are the radical who request to know.'” Michael Mayer is the show’s director.

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The Yentl prima isn’t the lone 1 who has been supportive of Lea’s large determination to Broadway, however. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Lea’s BFF, Jonathan astir what helium said to Lea earlier her debut arsenic Fanny. “I was texting that morning, I was driving up from Pennsylvania wherever I live, my ma and I were coming up to spot her,” helium told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY during Disney’s D23 Expo successful September. “And I said, ‘it feels similar Christmas morning.’ And we FaceTimed the nighttime before, and I said, ‘It feels similar Christmas Eve.’ Like erstwhile you’re successful anticipation of the large day.”

Lea’s longtime pal said the nighttime of her archetypal show successful Barbra’s erstwhile movie role, we each “watched a miss go a pistillate successful beforehand of our precise eyes.”