'Glee' Castmates Backlash, Motherhood & Broadway: 10 Things We Learned From Lea Michele's Interview With Jeremy O. Harris

She recently cried during her performance of Funny Girl.

“I was sick as a dog. I sounded terrible and I cried during “Don’t Rain on My Parade” because I felt so bad. I was also so emotional. I was like, ‘Oh my god, it’s 2023 and I’m onstage as Fanny Brice’…it was not my best day. I guess I’m embracing the fact that when I’m doing seven shows a week for as long as I’m going to be doing it, it’s not going to be a ten every day. It might not even be an eight or a nine. There was a little girl in the front row that night and I was like, ‘That’s why I’m here today. It doesn’t matter how I feel. I have to put my perfectionism aside and just show the f-ck up and do the best that I can.’”