'It was very hush-hush': Glee alum Heather Morris says people were '脅すd' to speak up about Lea Michele's いじめ(る)ing 行為… but 収容する/認めるs the cast 'could have' 報告(する)/憶測d it

  • The 34-year-old actress spoke with the podcast Everything Iconic With Danny Pellegrino on Wednesday?
  • Morris said she thought 'many people were very 脅すd' to open up about Michele's on-始める,決める 行為 at the time?
  • Michele 直面するd 告訴,告発s of mistreating a number of her Glee co-星/主役にするs last year
  • Morris said that the late Naya Rivera was the only one who was candid about Michele's 行為/行う 事前の to the スキャンダル going public last year??

Heather Morris said that Lea Michele's 虐待 of some of her Glee co-星/主役にするs 'was something that was very hush-hush on 始める,決める' in revisiting the 論争 that made headlines last summer.

'We 絶対 could have stepped up and gone to the Fox execs and said how we felt about the 状況/情勢, but no one did,' the 34-year-old actress told the podcast Everything Iconic With Danny Pellegrino on Wednesday.

The Thousand Oaks, California native said she thought 'many people were very 脅すd' to open up about Michele, who was one of the lead actresses on the program.

The latest: Heather Morris, 34, said that Lea Michele's mistreatment of some of her Glee co-stars 'was something that was very hush-hush on set' in revisiting the controversy that made headlines last summer
Michele, snapped in 2019, faced accusations of mistreating her Glee co-stars last year

The 最新の:?Heather Morris, 34, said that Lea Michele's 虐待 of some of her Glee co-星/主役にするs 'was something that was very hush-hush on 始める,決める' in revisiting the 論争 that made headlines last summer

'I know, genuinely, I felt like it wasn't my place,' Morris said, 'and I don't know why because I was a cast member.'

Morris, who played Brittany S. Pierce on the series from 2009 to 2015, said that 'now, you see all these things coming out with these bigger 指名するs who were very disrespectful and mistreated a lot of people.'

Morris said that she caught online flak from those who thought Michele's 活動/戦闘s should have been made public at the time.

'I remember getting so much shade and people were like, "Why don't you go out and say it?"' she said. 'And I'm like, "Guys, she's 妊娠している and all this stuff is going around."'

Morris played Brittany S. Pierce on the series from 2009 to 2015 alongside Michele

Morris played Brittany S. Pierce on the series from 2009 to 2015 と一緒に Michele

Looking back:?The Thousand Oaks, California native said she thought 'many people were very scared' to open up about Michele, who was one of the lead actresses on the program

Looking 支援する:?The Thousand Oaks, California native said she thought 'many people were very 脅すd' to open up about Michele, who was one of the lead actresses on the program

Morris said she didn't know if she and her co-星/主役にするs 'were 犠牲者s of いじめ(る)ing, and it's a very 犠牲者 thing to do to 非難する yourself, which is what people were 説.'

Morris said 'the only person who was honest about [Michele's on-始める,決める 行為/行う] was' the late Naya Rivera, who was candid about her 摩擦 with her 同僚 in her 2016 memoir Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up.

Rivera wrote i n the 調書をとる/予約する that Michele 'didn’t like 株ing the スポットライト' with her and 'had a hard time separating work from our outside friendship' and that 'いつかs it seemed like she 非難するd me for anything and everything that went wrong ... I don’t hate Lea, and I never have.'

Morris said 'the only person who was honest about [Michele's on-set conduct] was' the late Naya Rivera

Morris said 'the only person who was honest about [Michele's on-始める,決める 行為/行う] was' the late Naya Rivera?

Rivera died in July of 2020 in an 偶発の 溺死するing while she was out on a pontoon boat ride with her son in Lake Piru, California.

Morris said that Michele's 行為/行う could have also been せいにするd to her loss of love Cory Monteith in the wake of his 悲劇の 麻薬 overdose in July 2013.

'We all got の近くに with Lea at different points, and then we all weren't as の近くに with her,' Morris said. 'So there's that human element to understanding who this person is, growing with that person, seeing her try to become better and taking care of herself after Cory's past. It was just the elephant in the room.'

All the 星/主役にするs that have spoken out against Lea Michele

Samantha Ware

Glee actress Samantha re-点火(する)d 噂するs of Lea Michele's 申し立てられた/疑わしい bad 行為 on-始める,決める, when she 答える/応じるd to Michele's p ost regarding the death of George Floyd earlier this week. Ware, 33, said:?'Remember when you made my first television gig a living hell?!?!... '原因(となる) I'll never forget... I believe you told everyone that if you had the 適切な時期 you would 's*** in my wig!' amongst other traumatic microaggressions that made me question a career in Hollywood.'?

Kicking off: Samantha Ware made claims about Lea Michele earlier this week.

Kicking off: Samantha Ware made (人命などを)奪う,主張するs about Lea Michele earlier this week.?

Alex Newell

Alex - who starred as Unique Adams on the series for four seasons - 敏速に 空気/公表するd his feelings on Twitter. 'We ain't got not a damn thing to 嘘(をつく) about 6 years later!' he replied to one fan who 示唆するd they were making 誤った 告訴,告発s about Michele's 行為.

Dabier Snell

Actor Dabier Snell, who appeared in one episode of Glee, (人命などを)奪う,主張するd he wasn't 許すd to sit with Michele on 始める,決める, 説: 'GIRL YOU WOULDNT LET ME SIT AT THE TABLE WITH THE OTHER CAST MEMBERS CAUSE 'I DIDNT BELONG THERE' F--K YOU LEA.'?

Bad memories: Lea on Glee with Chris Colfer and Heather Morris

Bad memories: Lea on Glee with Chris Colfer and Heather Morris

Heather Morris

Morris, 33, who played cheerleader Brittany S. Pierce on the Ryan Murphy show, (人命などを)奪う,主張するs Michele was 'very' unpleasant to work with, 説: ''Was she unpleasant to work with? Very much so; for Lea to 扱う/治療する others with the disrespect that she did for as long as she did, I believe she SHOULD be called out.'

Melissa Benoist

Supergirl 星/主役にする Melissa Benoist, who appeared on Glee with Lea Michele, liked a 一連の 地位,任命するs 述べるing 星/主役にする's いじめ(る)ing and abusive 行為 toward castmates.?Benoist appeared on Glee's fourth season playing a character 指名するd Marley Rose. She sang a duet with Michele on the series.?She also 圧力(をかける)d the heart button on tweets from Glee's Alex Newell and Amber Riley that essentially 是認するd the spirit of Ware's 感情s

Amber Riley

Riley, who played Mercedes Jones in the through all six seasons, 株d two GIFs of herself に引き続いて the 主張s, one raising her 手渡す, while the other sipping tea. The 返答 原因(となる)d a 動かす の中で fans who saw it as a subtle way of the actress chiming in. Later, she made (疑いを)晴らす she wasn't 焦点(を合わせる)d on the 論争 まっただ中に the 騒然とした times of social 不安 in the wake of George Floyd's 殺人,大当り, and would only speak on the topic once while appearing on Instagram Live. She said, 'I don't give a s*** about this Lea Michele thing - I really don't give a f*** ... people are out here dying and 存在 殺人d by police. I don't give a s*** about this Lea Michele thing - I wish her 井戸/弁護士席, I hope she has an amazing pregnancy, I hope that she has grown.'

RHONY's Aviva Drescher

Even Real Housewives of New York 星/主役にする Aviva Drescher had a story to tell, commenting: 'You were once very unkind to me so I am not surprised by your 行為. You shouldn't 裁判官 others before looking in the mirror.' Michele made disparaging 発言/述べるs about Drescher during an episode of Andy Cohen's Watch What Happens Live.?

Awkward: Lea slated Aviva on a 2014 appearance on Watch What Happens Live!

ぎこちない: Lea 予定するd Aviva on a 2014 外見 on Watch What Happens Live!

Abigail Breslin

叫び声をあげる Queens actress Breslin, 24, was another former co-星/主役にする who was caught 'liking' a smattering of tweets about the 論争. 含むing one that read: “not everyone agreeing that something felt off about Lea Michele… where have y’all been i’ve BEEN 説 this FOR YEARS??? i thought i was alone.'

Yvette Nicole Brown

Actress Yvette Nicole Brown also gave her support to Ware. 'I felt every one of those 資本/首都 letters,' the Community actress tweeted 'EVERY person on a 始める,決める 事柄s. EVERY person on a 始める,決める deserves 尊敬(する)・点. And it is the RESPONSIBILITY of every series 正規の/正選手 to make EVERY person who visits their home feel welcome. This dismissive 態度 is what’s wrong in Hollywood AND the world.'

Marcel Spears?

The 市長 actor 反応するd to an array of replies to Ware's 初期の tweet, 含むing one 直接/まっすぐに asking Yvette Nicole Brown: 'I assume u feel the same since u worked with her?'

Under fire: Lea Michele in

Under 解雇する/砲火/射撃: Lea Michele in

Gerard Canonico

Broadway actor Gerard Canonico, 30, was an understudy in the 初めの Broadway cast of Spring Awakening starring Michele and her BFF Jonathan Groff. 'You were nothing but a nightmare to me and fellow understudy cast members. You made us feel like we didn’t belong there,' Canonico wrote in a comment on her Instagram 陳謝, which he had re-地位,任命するd after (人命などを)奪う,主張するing it had 最初 been 削除するd.?

Elizabeth Aldrich

Actress Elizabeth Aldrich - who was Michele's understudy in Ragtime - (人命などを)奪う,主張するd on Twitter: 'She was 絶対 awful to me and ensemble. She demeaned the 乗組員 and 脅すd to have people 解雇する/砲火/射撃d if she was in anyway displeased. I used to cry every night from the mean and manipulative things she would do. She was 12. She was terrifying.'??

Iqbal Theba?

Glee co-星/主役にする Iqbal Theba said he was not mistreated by the 星/主役にする and took to Twitter to 令状: 'Lot of people r assuming that @LeaMichele mistreated me. Let me 明言する/公表する it 明確に that I was never mistreated by her.?And if some of the cast were 扱う/治療するd 不正に then she has わびるd for it which is wonderful. But 存在 called a 人種差別主義者 is too 激しい & 不公平な a 重荷(を負わせる) 4 most of us, 特に in these troubled times.'

Plastic 殉教者

Trans model Plastic 解任するd an 出来事/事件 with Lea in the women's bathroom at the 2010 Emmy Awards. She told The Sun: 'She goes, ''Excuse me?'' and she looks at her friends, looks at me again, and says, ''Excuse you, you're in the woman's bat hroom''. I went from feeling like I was on cloud nine to feeling like a circus freak.'

Dean Geyer

Dean Geyer - who played Brody Weston, the boyfriend of Michele's character Rachel Berry, for 14 episodes - had nothing but nice things to say about her.?'Lea is still one of my favourite co-星/主役にするs that I have had the 楽しみ of working with. She is 極端に hard working and 最高の fun to be around,' he said.

Jordan Pruitt?

The 発言する/表明する 星/主役にする Jordan Pruitt chimed in on Friday, tweeting: 'Everyone in Hollywood KNOWS that Lea Michele is a horrible human 存在 …. she is a B**** to everyone. We all know it … yawn. Moving on …'?

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