Lea Michele - Good Person or Good PR?
Rich and Weekly
Wondery
4 • 962 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Is Lea Michele trying to do a little image rehab? After getting called out for her mean girl ways in 2020 by her former “Glee” co-stars, Lea swears she’s changed for the better. In a new piece for Interview Magazine, Lea says she’s had some conversations that have helped her take a step back and learn from her mistakes. She also credits her starring role in “Funny Girl” for pushing her to make better choices and apply everything she’s learned. Obviously we’d love it if Lea was actually trying to do better – but has she really turned over a new leaf? Or is this interview simply a brilliant PR move to help plug her Broadway show?
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| 0:00.0 | So Arecha, one of the things that I love most about our friendship is that if we have a problem, we tackle it head head on like I think it stops us from doing |
| 0:15.1 | what a lot of people do which is growing resentful and then just talking shit |
| 0:18.7 | about someone behind their back. I mean it helps that we have to record every day that's so even when we have |
| 0:25.4 | shit going on it's like well the show must go on showbiz baby and look it's obviously not great when you hear that someone's |
| 0:34.5 | been talking about you because they're upset and I guess sometimes the best |
| 0:38.5 | thing to do is talk, clear the air which is of course easier said than done. |
| 0:42.0 | Like that's not an easy thing to do. |
| 0:43.5 | No, it's not. |
| 0:44.4 | And that's what Leah Michelle says she's done. |
| 0:47.0 | Her image took a pretty massive hit a few years back |
| 0:50.1 | when some of her former Glee co-stars publicly called her out over her alleged mean girl behavior. |
| 0:56.5 | But in a new interview, Leah is promising that's all behind her. |
| 1:00.7 | Yeah, it definitely feels like she's trying to say, I'm different now, I swear. Yeah. But this is Hollywood, this is showbiz. So it's always hard to tell how much of it is sincerity and how much of it is just very well calculated PR. |
| 1:18.0 | Yes, I mean life is not candy and the world is not a ball of butter. |
| 1:23.4 | Oh my God, Brooke, come on! |
| 1:26.4 | From Wondery! |
| 1:27.8 | I'm Brooke Sifred. |
| 1:29.7 | And I'm Marisha Skinner Williams. |
| 1:31.4 | It's Wednesday, February 8th, |
| 1:33.3 | and you're listening to Rich and Daily. the world I see that hair toss |
| 1:45.0 | Give me that flossed |
| 1:47.0 | We got the hot sauce |
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