Lea Michele's former Broadway co-star, Craig Ramsay, has slammed the actor in a revealing new interview, where he denounced her as "despicable" and "entitled".
This comes after the Glee star was called out by her fellow Glee actor, Samatha Ware, who alleged that Michele made her life a "living hell" during their time working on the teen drama.
Ware also claimed that she was subjected to a number of "traumatic" microaggressions by the now-33-year-old.
Ware, who played Jane Hayward on the sixth season of Glee, took to Twitter last month to write:
"LMAO REMEMBER WHEN YOU MADE MY FIRST TELEVISION GIG A LIVING HELL?!?! CAUSE ILL NEVER FORGET.
"I BELIEVE YOU TOLD EVERYONE THAT IF TOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY YOU WOULD 'S*** IN MY WIG!' AMONGST OTHER TRAUMATIC MICROAGRESSIONS THAT MADE ME QUESTION A CAREER IN HOLLYWOOD… [sic]."
Now, Craig Ramsay has also criticized the actor's behavior.
When Michele was mentioned during his interview on the podcast Behind The Velvet Rope, Ramsay - who starred alongside her in Fiddler On The Roof - stated: "I just didn’t want to hear Lea Michele’s name in this interview. At all".
"I think she’s a despicable, horrible human being. I think she has lost touch with reality," he added.
Ramsay disclosed that he was present when Michele found out that she had landed a lead role in Glee, asserting that he believed it marked a turning point in her behavior.
"I think the entitlement just came over her body," he said. "She was possessed with this and from that moment on – because she moved to LA the same moment I did from New York – and I cared for her greatly, but the amount of entitlement… I have never seen the likes of it."
Michele responded to Ware's allegations in an Instagram post published on June 3rd:
"One of the most important lessons of the last few weeks is that we need to take the time to listen and learn about other people's perspectives and any role we have played or anything we can do to help address the injustices that they face.
"When I tweeted the other day, it was meant to be a show of support for our friends and neighbors and communities of color during this really difficult time, but the responses I received to what I posted have made me also focus specifically on how my own behavior towards fellow cast members was perceived by them.
"While I don't remember ever making this specific statement and I have never judged others by their background or color of their skin, that's really not the point, what matters is that I clearly acted in ways which hurt other people."
"Whether it was my privileged position and perspective that caused me to be perceived as insensitive or inappropriate at times or whether it was just my immaturity and me just being unnecessarily difficult, I apologize for my behavior and for any pain which I have caused. We can all grow and change and I have definitely used these past several months to reflect on my own shortcomings.
"I am a couple of months from becoming a mother and I know I need to keep working to better myself and take responsibility for my actions so that I can be a real role model for my child and so I can pass along my lessons and mistakes so that they can learn from me. I listened to these criticisms and I am learning and while I am very sorry, I will be better in the future from this experience."
