LEA Michele’s former Glee co-star has slammed the actress with a savage comment years after she was accused of being a “mean girl.”
Chris Colfer held nothing back when discussing his one-time castmate.
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The actor appeared on The Michelle Collins Show, where he was asked about going to see Lea in Funny Girl on Broadway.
Chris responded: “Oh, no, are you seeing Funny Girl?”
The pair then burst into a fit of laughter as Michelle said that she was.
The actor hit back: “Oh. My day suddenly just got so full.
“I saw Six last night, and that was amazing.”
Michelle continued to press Chris, asking: “So, you’re not seeing [Funny Girl] is my guess, while you’re in town?”
He replied: “No, I can be triggered at home.”
The comment comes years after Glee star Samantha Ware alleged that Lea created a toxic work environment on the set of the Fox musical series.
Co-stars Amber Riley and Alex Newell backed the statement at the time.
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GETTING DROPPED
As a result of the backlash, Lea was dropped by HelloFresh as an ambassador.
She issued an apology, vowing to “be better.”
Lea addressed the drama once more in an interview with The New York Times.
Before her Funny Girl debut, Lea told the newspaper: “I have an edge to me.
“I work really hard. I leave no room for mistakes. That level of perfectionism, or that pressure of perfectionism, left me with a lot of blind spots.”
Former Glee stars Jenna Ushkowitz and Kevin McHale have also been asked about seeing their ex-castmate in Funny Girl.
Kevin told EW: “I haven’t talked to her.
“We haven’t talked in quite a while. Jenna and I talk every day, but I haven’t spoken to her in a long time. So I haven’t talked to her about Funny Girl.”
Asked specifically about the show, he said he hadn’t “thought about it.”
Jenna, for her part, said; “If I’m in New York, I will go see it. Broadway is home for me, and I’m sad that I missed Jane [Lynch].”
Asked if she wished Lea well before the show, she said: “I have not. I will leave it at that.”
TAKING OVER
Lea was recently announced as the new lead of Funny Girl, taking over from Beanie Feldstein.
Many fumed we’re living in “the darkest timeline” given the successor’s past bullying accusations on Glee where Lea’s character aspired to the role.
Beanie initially announced in June that she would be leaving the production on September 25th.
But the actress then posted an update Sunday evening stating that her last show will be the end of July instead with a stand-in star filling the stage in between.
“Once the production decided to take the show in a different direction, I made the extremely difficult decision to step away sooner than anticipated,” Beanie wrote on Instagram.
She starred in the role originated by Barbara Streisand in 1964 since the Broadway revival of the show opened in April.
Quite coincidentally, leaving Funny Girl as well is co-star Jane Lynch – who was also on TV’s Glee with Lea.
The art-imitates-life element of it all had fans floored, some said it appeared Lea was waiting in the wings the whole time.
“Please tell me I’m being Krissed rn,” one Instagrammer wrote under the show’s post referencing Kris Jenner, 66, and implying it was a prank.
“Hopefully Lea Michele doesn’t bully her castmates in Funny Girl,” wrote another.
“Truly never thought I’d say this but I am legitimately disgusted that Leah Michelle is taking over for Beanie in Funny Girl,” wrote a third on Twitter.
“She’s carbon perfect for the role, sure, but what a s**t way to get the thing you’ve always wanted. Supremely glad to have seen Beanie while she was there.”
A fourth used a GIF of Jane Lynch saying she’d create a toxic environment, writing: “Lea Michele when she inevitably joins funny girl on broadway now.”
Another wrote, “It’s okay you can just say you didn’t want a plus-size person as a lead anymore.”
A fifth fan penned: “I’d just rather never see Lea Michele in anything ever again. There are PLENTY of great talents that don’t treat castmates like garbage.”
Others said: “We can’t ever give her that role that’s the last infinity stone” while yet one more called this the “darkest timeline.”
While a sixth added: “I am not even into broadway but I am into DRAMA.”
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