A former colleague is raining on Lea Michele’s parade.
A lady who was allegedly a background common in a show with Michele went viral for yet one more uncomplimentary story concerning the “Funny Girl” star.
Laura Eletel posted a video about working as Michele’s stand-in in 2017 on the now-canceled show, “The Mayor,” claiming the previous “Glee” star told her to shut up.
She alleged that Michele, 36, “wanted” this job as a result of she had “formally been blacklisted as being tough” and the allegations of her being racist, imply and aggressive on the set of “Glee” had simply come out.
“By Episode 3, they had been considering of firing her as a result of she stored throwing tantrums and staying in her trailer for a lot too lengthy and like, making manufacturing simply go over finances by days,” Eletel claimed within the since-deleted video, which has been reposted by Perez Hilton.
When the solid of the show was filming Episode 7 of 12, it was Eletel’s first time as Michele’s stand-in, and she claimed she had by no means spoken to her earlier than.
Her job as a stand-in required her to take notes of particulars comparable to the place the actress had to go, what she had to do and the place she had to land when she mentioned sure elements of dialogue, because it was a single-camera show.
“Finally the princess comes out of her trailer 45 minutes too late, and I have the script in my hand, and I’m like, ‘This is the primary time I’m really gonna converse to her, pricey God, give me power,’ ” Eletel claimed.
Eletel mentioned she walked up to Michele and launched herself and began to go over the notes the director relayed to her.
“I’m like midway by way of, she’s not even making eye contact with me, she hasn’t mentioned howdy, she doesn’t even, like, acknowledge my presence,” she mentioned of the alleged incident. “I’m like, ‘OK, perhaps she’s simply, like, listening to it. It’s high-quality.’ ”
But when Michele lastly acknowledged her stand-in, she reportedly wasn’t so pleasant.
“Finally she appears to be like up, and she goes, ‘You’re nonetheless talking? I want it to stop,’ ” Eletel claimed.
The Post has reached out to reps for Michele for remark.
Eletel mentioned she “needed to die on the spot.”
She claimed that the opposite stars of the show and the director apologized to her for Michele’s conduct, saying Michele “will get in a temper typically.”
Eletel admitted that she by no means thought concerning the incident till not too long ago when rumors that Michele can’t learn began to swirl.
“I was like, ‘I’ve by no means really seen her like kind something cohesive on her telephone’ — ‘trigger she’s consistently on her telephone,” she alleged. “I imply she wouldn’t even look as soon as on the script, and I’m considering now perhaps it’s as a result of she couldn’t learn the script.”
Eletel claimed that she was often on the set of the show and was associates with the remainder of the solid and crew — together with David Spade and Yvette Nicole Brown — and that she’s nonetheless associates with a few of them on Instagram.
The stand-in mentioned that Brown reportedly “had it up to right here” with Michele and “was about to curse her out,” whereas the cameraman supposedly did curse her out on the final day.
“It was wonderful as a result of I was the stand-in for that episode, and I witnessed it,” Eletel claimed. “It’s so unhappy as a result of I actually needed to like her as a result of I assume she’s lovely and she’s so gifted.”
“But she is deplorable,” she added.
