Emma Roberts coyly jokes about wacky rumors her pal Lea Michele cannot read trends now

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Emma Roberts slyly joked about the wacky internet rumors that her friend and former co-star Lea Michele is illiterate.

While Emma, 31, was on "Watch What Happens Live this week, a fan asked her to name 'the biggest misconception' about Lea and host Andy Cohen offered: 'The biggest misconception is that she can't read.'

'Well, we've not been in a book club together but...,' said the niece of Julia Roberts, trailing off and giggling before saying: 'No,' to indicate she was just kidding.

Emma and Lea starred together on the short-lived Ryan Murphy program Scream Queens amid a cast that included Keke Palmer and Abigail Breslin. 

Lea has now scored a professional triumph with a widely acclaimed run in the Broadway revival of the 1960s Barbra Streisand vehicle Funny Girl.

The current production originally opened with Jonah Hill's sister Beanie Feldstein in the lead, but after a raft of scathing reviews she was replaced by Lea.

Emma gushed on Watch What Happens Live that she went to see Lea in Funny Girl and 'was crying at the end' of the musical.