Actress Lea Michele sat behind Ziwe Fumudoh at Sunday’s US Open, within the wake of the latter’s interview during which she mentioned Lea’s racism scandal.
The Glee actress, 37, was joined by her husband Zandy Reich, 40, at Flushing Meadows the place they watched the boys’s last of the U.S. Open tennis event, whereas Ziwe, 31, was awkwardly positioned in entrance of the couple within the stands.
Their look on the event comes simply 9 months after Ziwe, who was seated with pal Emily Ratajkowski, 32, interviewed Lea’s Glee co-star Amber Riley about allegations of racism on the present’s set.
In 2020, Glee star Samantha Ware accused Lea of getting ‘racist tendencies’ – one thing Ziwe grilled Amber over in an ungainly interview in December, resulting in an ungainly second on the Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev face-off.
Including additional gasoline to the fireplace, Watch What Occurs Dwell producer Frank Costa tweeted a picture of the seating and penned: ‘Lea Michele sitting behind Ziwe and Emily Ratajkowski on the US Open. I would like a full breakdown of any & all interactions’.
Outing: Actress Lea Michele sat behind Ziwe Fumudoh at Sunday’s US Open, within the wake of the latter’s interview during which she alluded to Lea’s racism scandal
Lea’s look: The Glee actress, 37, was joined by her husband Zandy Reich, 40, at Flushing Meadows the place they watched the boys’s last of the U.S. Open tennis event, whereas Ziwe, 31, was awkwardly positioned in entrance of the couple within the stands alongside Emily Ratajkowski
Behind: Emily and Ziwe didn’t seem to speak with smiling Lea
Shock: In 2020, Glee star Samantha Ware accused Lea of getting ‘racist tendencies’ – one thing Ziwe grilled Amber over in an ungainly interview in December, resulting in an ungainly second on the Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev face-off
Frank: Including additional gasoline to the fireplace, Watch What Occurs Dwell producer Frank Costa tweeted a picture of the seating and penned: ‘Lea Michele sitting behind Ziwe and Emily Ratajkowski on the US Open. I would like a full breakdown of any & all interactions’
Photographs taken of the foursome on the match, the place Djokovic was victorious, didn’t present the duo talking at any time and there’s no affirmation of an trade.
Scandal erupted in 2020, when Samantha made her accusations in the direction of the present lead, claiming that she abused her on-set – in an echo of claims made by different stars.
The bullying allegations got here to gentle after Lea took to social media to pay tribute to George Floyd, who was slain by police thus sparking worldwide protests and the origins of the Black Lives Matter Motion.
Taking to Twitter on the time, Lea wrote: ‘George Floyd didn’t deserve this. This was not an remoted incident and it should finish’.
Samantha, who appeared as Jane Hayward on the present’s sixth season in 2015, swiftly hit again: ‘Bear in mind while you made my first tv gig a residing hell?!?!…
‘Trigger I will always remember… I consider you instructed everybody that should you had the chance you’ll ‘s*** in my wig!’ amongst different traumatic microaggressions that made me query a profession in Hollywood.’
After Lea vowed to ‘be higher’ in a press release – but insisted she didn’t bear in mind any of the moments Samantha recalled – the latter gave an interview in response.
Talking in regards to the ‘traumatic microaggressions’, she stated: ‘Am I calling Lea a racist? No. Does Lea have racist tendencies? I feel Lea suffers from a symptom of residing on this world in an trade that’s tailor-made to white individuals.’
EmRata’s look: Photographs taken of the foursome on the match, the place Djokovic was victorious, didn’t present the duo talking at any time and there’s no affirmation of an trade
Ziwe’s look: They appeared intently on as they sport bought underway
‘I will likely be higher sooner or later’: In 2020 Lea (left) issued a public apology to Samantha Ware (proper) amid claims she made her life ‘a residing hell’ throughout her stint on Glee
Assertion: She took to social media to pay tribute to George Floyd and in assist of the Black Lives Matter motion, which led to the backlash
Bear in mind me? The message was met with an acerbic response from Samantha
Following this, Ziwe spoke to Amber, who performed Mercedes Jones on the Fox comedy-drama, about whether or not Lea was racist.
Ziwe stated: ‘Now, talking of getting down within the muck, you stated that certainly one of your well-known coworkers wasn’t racist. Did you imply that she was?’
Amber took a number of moments to try to work out how you can reply, earlier than asking Ziwe politely to maneuver on to the subsequent query, including: ‘I do not know how you can reply that.’
Amber then defiantly said that she wasn’t positive what co-worker Ziwe was referring to as a result of she had so many, when she performed the video of Riley saying she did not suppose Lea Michele is racist.
Ziwe then requested: ‘Would you say that your well-known coworker doesn’t see race and is, the truth is, impolite to all of her coworkers?’
Amber diplomatically replied: ‘I feel that she would most likely say she doesn’t see race. However as we mentioned earlier, everybody does’.
Between Ziwe and Justin: Afterward Ziwe and Emily transfer seats and sat with Justin Theroux