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Lea Micheleis getting inon the joke.
In the video, Michele, 36, reacted to an Instagram post about the book news, placing her hand over her mouth and smiling in excitement. She simply captioned the post with various book emojis and the nerd face emoji.
As part of the joke, several users commented on Michele’s post with emojis to communicate.
Inher second TikTok video, shared in September following her return to Broadway, Michele once again addressed the illiteracy conspiracy.
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RELATED VIDEO: Lea Michele Says Online Rumors She Can’t Read or Write ‘Wouldn’t Be the Case’ If ‘I Were a Man’
Michelereacted to the online speculationthat she can’t read during an interview withThe New York Timeslast year. (Several viral TikToks and social media threads in recent years pushed a conspiracy theory that Michele never learned to read, with peopleclaiming to show “evidence.")
“I went toGleeevery single day; I knew my lines every single day. 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,” said Michele at the time.
Michelepreviously joked about the rumorswhen they bubbled up back in March 2018. She set the record straight with a sense of humor, tweeting to a fan who said she must be “laughing her head off right now” about it: “Loved READING this tweet and wanted to WRITE you back? literally laughing out loud at all this. Love you!!”
source: people.com
