Lea Michele says Ryan Murphy referred to as to tell her the web thinks she will be able to’t learn 

Rumors have swirled for years that Lea Michele can't learn – rumors that Michele has cleared up as baseless on quite a few events. Now the star is revisiting the second she first encountered the persistent on-line delusion.

"What was trending on-line extra was 'Lea Michele can't learn,'" the Humorous Lady star shares in an advance clip of the brand new episode of Jake Shane's Therapuss podcast, which drops Wednesday night. Michele revealed it was her former Glee boss, Ryan Murphy, who "referred to as me and was like, 'Have you ever heard this rumor?' And I used to be like, 'No, what's happening!'"

Earlier than Michele can stick with it together with her subsequent thought, she lunges throughout the desk towards Shane's notes, seizing the stack of playing cards whereas shouting, "Give me these! I'm studying them!"

Mendacity someplace between mean-spirited schoolyard rumors, a light-hearted on-line meme, and a full-blown conspiracy concept, rumbles of Michele's alleged illiteracy date again no less than so far as 2017. That yr, One Extra Factor podcasters Jaye Hunt and Robert Ackerman humorously superior the idea primarily based on a detailed studying of Sorry Not Sorry, the memoir launched by Michele's Glee costar Naya Rivera the earlier yr.

Rivera, who died in 2020 on the age of 33, claimed in Sorry Not Sorry that Michele refused to improvise whereas capturing scenes for the Fox comedy sequence. Hunt and Ackerman extrapolated that declare into the idea that it Michele's illiteracy pressured her to memorize her scripts, making improv unattainable.

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The speculation caught hearth, setting the meme world ablaze and eight years later proving to nonetheless have somewhat life left in it but.

Michele has addressed the idea on a number of events. In 2018, Michele mentioned the idea with Watch What Occurs Dwell host Andy Cohen and fellow visitor Bethenny Frankel, declaring how unbelievable it might be for her to have to totally "memorize pages and pages" of Glee scripts each week. "By the best way," she added, "they stated that Ryan Murphy must learn the traces to me. Ryan referred to as me and was like, 'Do individuals assume I’ve the time in my life to return do that?'"

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Chatting with the New York Occasions in 2022, Michele referred to as the idea "unhappy. It truly is. I feel typically if I have been a person, numerous this wouldn’t be the case."

Although she's addressed, debunked, and castigated the rumors, they haven't totally gone away. So Michele has these days taken to creating mild of them.

When the New York Metropolis-born actress, 38, joined TikTok within the fall of 2022, she captioned her first publish, "Calling Jonathan to learn me the feedback on my first TikTok," referencing her Spring Awakening costar and longtime buddy Jonathan Groff.

The next yr, Michele posted one other TikTok in reference to her starring function within the Broadway revival of Humorous Lady, which Barbra Streisand originated in 1964. Reacting to the upcoming launch of Streisand's memoir Barbra, Michele joked, "265 days to be taught to READ!!!!"

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