Actor Keke Palmer has apparently simply discovered in regards to the long-running conspiracy concept that her former “Scream Queens” co-star Lea Michele can’t learn. After listening to in regards to the rumor’s unfold on Tuesday’s episode of “The Toast,” Palmer reacted with shock.
“Damn, that’s crazy,” she bluntly acknowledged on the podcast. “Why do people do this stuff?”
The idea first emerged in 2017 when “One More Thing” podcast hosts Jaye Hunt and Robert Ackerman mentioned the memoir of actor Naya Rivera, who wrote that Michele appeared unwilling to improvise traces on the TV present “Glee.” Hunt and Ackerman joked that this will have been as a result of illiteracy, with the concept’s unfold aided by footage of Michele supposedly struggling to learn off names at award reveals, amongst different issues.
“The Toast” host Claudia Oshry advised Palmer that some folks consider Ryan Murphy, one of many creators of “Scream Queens” and “Glee,” has repeatedly employed Michele “because he knows her secret,” and that he would learn Michele’s traces to her so she may memorize them.
When requested if she’d ever seen Michele learn a e book on set, Palmer hinted that she hadn’t — however famous that the identical could possibly be stated of herself.
“I know that she can read, y’all!” Palmer stated. “I ain’t never seen her reading, but I know that she can read. She’s got to!”
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Michele has reacted to the idea quite a few occasions over time with hilarious social media posts. However she has additionally tried to quash it and prompt that it’s underpinned by sexism.
“I went to ‘Glee’ every single day; I knew my lines every single day,” she advised The New York Instances in 2022. “And then there’s a rumor online that I can’t read or write? It’s sad. It really is. I think often if I were a man, a lot of this wouldn’t be the case.”
And whereas her former “Scream Queens” co-star Emma Roberts made mild of the idea final 12 months — saying, “Well, I mean, we’ve not been in a book club together!” — others don’t appear to search out it humorous.
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“Whatever your issue with someone, and I don’t know this woman, or anything about her, but laughing at the idea of *anyone* not being able to read makes YOU look like a prick,” actor Jameela Jamil wrote on social media in 2022, apparently referring to Michele. “An elitist, ableist bore.”
She added, “It’s embarrassing for you, not them.”
