Alex Newell is happy to be moving on with Lea Michele.
During Sunday's ceremony, Newell and J. Harrison Ghee became the first openly nonbinary actors to win Tony Awards.co-star Samantha Ware, a Black actress, who claimed that Michele made her time on the show a"living hell" and called her out for posting about the Black Lives Matter movement. At the time, Newell, who is also Black, responded to Ware's claims with a"get her" GIF.
Newell later responded to a fan who asked why Newell posed with Michele for a photo after Michele came to see them perform on Broadway in January 2018. "She was there, I was being polite!!" Newell wrote at the time.
"That's not really the point, what matters is that I clearly acted in ways which hurt other people," Michele added."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.
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