‘The Glee Project’ Alums Claim They Were ‘Manipulated’ by the Show: ‘It Was Very Traumatic’
usmagazine.comBehind-the-scenes secrets — and some bad memories. The cast of The Glee Project detailed their experiences on the reality competition, and they weren’t all happy.Damian McGinty, Samuel Larsen, Lindsay Pearce, Ali Stroker and more alums of the Oxygen series recalled their time on the short-lived show in a new oral history published by Insider on Monday, August 22.
McGinty, 29, described his time on The Glee Project as “one of the most fun things” he’ll do in his life, but his fellow castmates didn’t all have such fond recollections.Pearce, 31, said that one of her most negative experiences on the show — which lasted only two seasons that aired from 2011 to 2012— came during an episode when she was encouraged to express vulnerability.“They sat us down and essentially asked us to tell them our deepest, darkest secrets,” the Broadway actress recalled. “I shared about my sexual assault.
I said something like, ‘Going through that made me feel like I wasn’t a person — like I was just a body and a nice face.'”According to Pearce, however, producers removed the story of the assault from the episode. “The cut is me saying people like me because I’m pretty, which makes me feel fake,” the California native explained. “That was gut-wrenching, because I wouldn’t have shared my experience if I knew how it’d be edited.
It didn’t fit the narrative that they were trying to make.”The former Wicked star also detailed an incident where she and costar Cameron Mitchell shared a kiss during a shoot for a music video.
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