Lea Michele finally joins the joke that she can’t read with a video on TikTok

It is a rumor that has been circulating on the Internet for years and in the last month it has intensified above all: Lea Michele cannot read. The ‘Glee’ actress is the protagonist of this conspiracy theory that has filled social networks with videos that analyze the clues and, above all, with many jokes and memes about the situation.

Recently Michele herself alluded to the subject for the first time in an interview with the New York Times, in which the interpreter did not really laugh: “I went to “Glee” filming every day and always knew my lines.. And then it turns out that a rumor spreads that I can’t read or write? Is sad. Really. I often think that if I were a man many of these things would not happen. “.

Far from resolving the matter, these claims added fuel to the fire and made the joke even more viral, sparking a flurry of memes and comments that jokingly point out that Michele has not yet disproved the matter. Now, the actress chose to approach the situation in another way: by adding herself to the joke. Because if you can’t beat them, join them.

@Michael reading

LOL ???

? original sound – Kardashian clip

Michele recently took on the role of her life, playing Fanny Brice in the revival of the Broadway musical popularized by Barbra Streisand since early September. However, just four days into the start of her acclaimed performances, she had to temporarily abandon production after testing positive for Covid-19. while lying in bed, Michele decided to open a TikTok account and in one of his first videos he joked about his alleged illiteracy.

In the clip we see Michele in bed pretending a phone call to his good friend Jonathan Groff, lip syncing an iconic moment from “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”, with the lyrics “Calling Jonathan to read me the comments on my first TikTok”. The video, which the actress shared with a “LOL” and several emojis to make it clear that he decided to laugh at the rumor, he has more than 8 million views at the time of this writing.

How it all started

As reported by the online meme encyclopedia Know Your Meme (via EW), the joke that Lea Michele cannot read began in 2017 on the podcast ‘One More Thing’. According to the website, the presenters were analyzing the memories of her “Glee” co-star Naya Rivera, in which the sadly deceased actress claimed that Michele had refused to improvise scenes with actor Tim Conway. The presenters joked that the reason was that Ryan Murphy had to dictate her sentences because she couldn’t read. And the rest is history.