Add Broadway star Craig Ramsay to the list of people who say actress Lea Michele is a nightmare in the workplace. He called her “despicable” and “authoritative” in a new interview.
It seems that read Michele has burned many bridges with co-stars over the years, from Broadway to Fox’s Joy. Another former co-star has come out with a few select words about the 33-year-old actress. Craig Ramsay starred in Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof with Lea and Rosie O’Donnell in mid-August and said in a new podcast that Lea is “one of the most empowered people I’ve ever met in this business.” He said that once she was chosen Joy, he became a “horrible human being”.
“I just didn’t want to hear Lea Michele’s name in this interview, at all!” Craig said during an appearance on David Yontef‘s Behind the velvet rope podcast “I think he is a despicable and horrible human being. I think he has lost touch with reality. “The conversation starts at 6 minutes, 15 seconds mark directly below:
Craig explained: “We were in Violinist together. Rosie [O’Donnell] is incredible. I still speak, she is a great mentor to me. I respect her, how she has been able to survive and prosper with all the nonsense thrown at her. As far as Lea Michele is concerned, I think she is one of the most entitled people I have ever met in this business!
The host David was not surprised and said that he met Lea and that “I have never had a good experience.” Craig said Lea became officially unbearable once she was cast in the lead role of Rachel Berry in Joy. “I was there when he basically got a phone call from ‘I have Joy‘and I think the right took over his body. I was possessed by this and from that moment … because she moved to Los Angeles at the same time as I did from New York, and I was very concerned about her, “Craig shared.
“But then, the amount of entitlement that came right then. I have never seen likes. And especially Broadway. You can’t mess with Broadway. You can get a very bad reputation very quickly if you just don’t respect where you come from because she’s so respectable, “Craig continued. He added:” And she’s talented, don’t get me wrong. She’s more talented than the concerts she’s done in the past few years. Ten years. But that means anything if no one wants to work with you. ”David later noted,“ That doesn’t necessarily surprise me, ”on Craig’s opinion of Lea’s behavior.
Joy season six stars Samantha Commodity, 28, was the first to speak out against Lea in a Twitter post on June 2 after the Scream Queens The actress shared her support for Black Lives Matter. Samantha, who is Black, tweeted: “LMAO REMEMBER WHEN YOU MADE MY FIRST TELEVISION GIG A HELL! BECAUSE YOU WILL NEVER FORGET ”. Samantha accused Lea of intimidation and other “TRAUMATIC MICROAGGRESSES” and added: “I think you told everyone that if you had the chance, you would kill yourself with my wig.” Several other lesser known Joy The students then backed her up with some similar stories about Lea’s alleged bullying.
Lea’s life Joy co-star Heather Morris He intervened on June 3 and wrote in an Instagram post: “Was it unpleasant to work with her? Much; for Lea to treat others with the disrespect she did during the time she did it, I think SHOULD be called. “That same day, Lea made a long apology, but it didn’t go too well because she used the word” perceived ” several times. “If it was my privileged position and perspective that made me feel insensitive or inappropriate at times, or if it was just my immaturity and me being unnecessarily difficult, I apologize for my behavior and any pain it may have caused.” She wrote in an Instagram post.
