Actress Samantha Marie has gone on the record to say that former Glee star Lea Michele not only made racial attacks towards her while they were working on the hit show together, but also that she was “abusing her power.” She says in a new interview that Lea never gave Samantha a chance and that she was incredibly cold to her from the moment she began working on the hit Fox musical. Here’s what she has to say.
Ware says that after she had completed filming her first musical number, Tightrope, on the show, she felt as though she was being pushed to the side by Lea Michele. “I knew from day one when I attempted to introduce myself. There was nothing gradual about it. As soon as she decided that she didn’t like me, it was very evident,” Ware told Variety in an exclusive interview. “It was after I did my first performance, that’s when it started – the silent treatment, the stare-downs, the looks, the comments under her breath, the weird passive aggressiveness. It all built up.”
Samantha Marie Ware Says Lea Michelle Abused Her Power While Bullying Her
Apparently, Lea Michele acted this same way to other newbies on the set of Glee or anyone who was not in her ‘inner circle’ so to speak. “Lea’s actions were nothing new, so I guess since it was such a common thing, my case didn’t seem like that big of a deal,” Ware added. “I remember the first day I actually spoke up and unfortunately no one did anything. They just shrugged it off, like ‘That’s her.’ No one was stopping these things, which is an issue because the environment was helping perpetuate this abuse.”
She further explained, “When you’re shooting a scene, sometimes the camera is on you and sometimes it’s not, but you still have to be in the scene. The camera wasn’t on us, so it’s not like we had to give a full throttle performance, but apparently, I was goofing around when the camera wasn’t on me, and she took that as me being disrespectful to her.”
Meanwhile, after Samantha Ware called Lea Michele out for being something many people would rhyme with ‘witch,’ plenty of other co-stars came forward with mean girl stories of their own. Apparently, the brunette beauty wasn’t very popular behind the scenes. Actor Dabiel Snell said Lea had him banished from having lunch with the rest of the cast. He told the New York Post, “I was invited to sit down with the rest of the cast members by Darren Criss, and made to feel welcome. I also knew Chris Colfer as well, so he was like, ‘Go ahead, come sit with us and chat!’ . . . Five to 10 minutes after we sat down and had a conversation, I was pulled [aside by an assistant director] and told one of the cast members did not want me to sit there, because she felt I don’t belong.”
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