The “Glee” alum jokingly demanded Jake Shane hand her his notecards to show she will, actually, learn, and likewise defined why, on a severe observe, she finds the rumor “so irritating” and “unhappy.”
Lea Michele is able to put the longstanding rumor that she’s illiterate to relaxation as soon as and for all.
Throughout an look on Thursday’s episode of the Therapuss with Jake Shane podcast, the Glee alum addressed the “wild” years-long conspiracy principle that she will’t learn, which dates again to 2015 and claims she memorizes her strains after folks learn them out loud to her.
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Michele, 38, detailed the second she first discovered concerning the rumor from Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy.
“I will always remember the identical day that that every one got here out,” she recalled. “Donald Trump mentioned he was gonna, like, punch John McCain within the face or one thing like that? It was 2015 and he mentioned one thing so wild. However what was trending on-line extra was, ‘Lea Michele cannot learn.’”
“Ryan Murphy referred to as me, and he was like, ‘Have you ever heard this rumor?’” she continued. “And I used to be like, ‘No, what is going on on?’ And yeah, the truth that we’re right here all these years later.”
The Broadway star then went on to definitively debunk the rumor herself by jokingly demanding Shane hand her his notecards.
“Give me the [notes]! I am studying them!” Michele mentioned, to which Shane laughed, “I am sick! I am sick!”
“Jonathan [Groff] just isn’t right here to learn me this s–t!” she added, referring to her longtime good friend.
Michele began to learn a notecard out loud, which featured fan questions, earlier than she then joked, asking Shane, “What does this phrase say?”
“And never a f–king stutter!” Shane mentioned, laughing, after Michele completed studying the cardboard.
The Scream Queens star jokingly famous that there would nonetheless be “theories” that Shane set it up and “referred to as her upfront.”
“‘She noticed the playing cards upfront! This proves nothing,’” she mentioned mockingly.
Michele identified how Groff was beforehand requested concerning the conspiracy principle that she will’t learn on a podcast, recalling his “humorous” response.
“Jonathan did a podcast, and somebody was like, ‘Can Lea learn?’ And his response to me was so humorous,” she mentioned. “He was like, ‘Do you actually suppose she will’t? What the f–k does that say about you?’”
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Whereas Michele did not appear too fazed as she joked concerning the rumor, she did admit, on a severe observe, that there have been “moments” when she finds the conspiracy principle “irritating.”
“It actually is dependent upon the day,” she advised Shane. “Generally I feel it is loopy that folks care sufficient about me that they might make up one thing. That somebody has so little to do of their life and their day that they might waste it on me is hilarious to me.”
“After which there are moments the place I f–king get so pissed off by it as a result of I am one of many solely ladies in my entire household to get accepted to school,” she continued. “My mom, and my mom’s entire household, was extraordinarily poor, from the Bronx, not very nicely educated, and my dad and mom moved me from the Bronx to New Jersey to get an excellent training and to thrive, and I did. And my dad and mom and my household are so pleased with that. It actually was so vital for my grandmother to see me, and so for somebody to reduce that, it is so unhappy and so irritating.”
“However yeah, I do not know, it is wild,” she added. “It is actually wild. It is a loopy factor.”
Michele has spoken out concerning the weird allegations up to now, together with throughout an interview with The New York Occasions again in 2022.
“I went to Glee each single day; I knew my strains each single day,” she mentioned on the time. “After which there is a rumor on-line that I am unable to learn or write? It is unhappy. It truly is. I feel usually, if I have been a person, quite a lot of this would not be the case.”
Beforehand, she had appeared to poke enjoyable on the rumor, responding to a fan who thought she was laughing over it by way of Twitter in 2020. In a since-deleted tweet, Michele wrote, “Beloved READING this tweet and needed to WRITE you again😛 actually laughing out loud in any respect this😂 love you!!! 😘❤️.”
