'Glee' Star Heather Morris Agrees Lea Michele Was 'Unpleasant to Work With'
by EG
Glee star Heather Morris has spoken up after a clash between former castmates Samantha Marie Ware and Lea Michele, in which Ware said Michele made her life on set a "living hell." For her part, Morris confirms that Michele was "unpleasant to work with" and treated castmates with "disrespect." Morris stopped short of saying Michele's behavior was racially motivated, however. Read on for details.
Via Page Six.
Another “Glee” co-star has bolstered Samantha Marie Ware’s claim that Lea Michele made her life on set a “living hell.”
Heather Morris, who played Brittany S. Pierce on the Fox hit, tweeted out that she, too, found it difficult to work with Michele. However, she was slow to label the actress racist, an epithet many believe was implied in Ware’s initial response to Michele’s support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
“Let me be very clear, Hate is a disease in America that we are trying to cure, so I would never wish for hate to be spread to anyone else,” Morris, 33, began on Twitter. “With that said, was she unpleasant to work with? Very much so; for Lea to treat others with the disrespect that she did for as long as she did, I believe she SHOULD be called out.”
— heather (@HeatherMorrisTV) June 3, 2020
“It’s also on us because to allow it to go on for so long without speaking out is something else we’re learning along with the rest of society,” she continued.
“But, at the current moment it’s implied that she is a racist and although I cannot comment on her beliefs, I think we’re assuming, and you know what happens when we all assume…”
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