Lea Michele’s dad told her she couldn’t sing

Lea Michele’s dad told her that she couldn’t sing.

The 24-year-old Glee actress didn’t exactly get encouragement from her parents when she was a child.

“Did my parents see my star potential? No, they didn’t even know I could sing!” she said.

“I remember asking my mom if she wanted to hear me sing and she was busy, and then my dad pulled me aside, knelt down in front of me and said, ‘Listen, you’re really funny and a great dancer, but you can’t sing.’ I will never let him live that down.”

Lea still managed to succeed – even after a dodgy audition.

“My best and worst audition was for Glee. Everything went wrong,” she said.

“On my way there I got into a massive car wreck when I was pulling into the studio.”

“When I came into the room, the pianist messed up my track, so I stopped him and told him he had to start it over.”

“Everyone was laughing at me so I told them to stop and little did I know that there were little bits of Rachel Berry in me. I thought, ‘This is the worst audition of my life’. But I got it!”