Lea Michele threw a temper tantrum before & during the Met Gala

Many of you disagreed with me, but I thought Lea Michele looked nice in this red Escada gown at the Met Gala a few weeks ago. Some of you thought she looked prom-y, and yeah, you’re right. But I liked the look overall on Lea specifically. I think Lea tends to get too girly and princess-y with her style, so I liked seeing her in a relatively clean silhouette, a bold color, and styled for her features (rather than what was trendy). She was a TV Girl who looked nice, that’s what I thought. As it turns out, Lea had just come out of a massive temper tantrum when we saw her on the red carpet:

Glee’s Lea Michele may have looked like a fairy princess at the recent Met Costume Institute Gala in New York, but behind the scenes, she behaved more like a wicked witch! An insider says she was very upset before hitting the red carpet because “she didn’t want to wear anything her stylist sent her and she hated all the dresses,” which her rep denies.

Annoyed that her stylist was in LA, Lea “just kept saying that she hated everything – she was crying and having a fit!” says the insider.

“You would have thought Lea was the next Queen of England when you saw her having a royal fit,” laughs the insider.

An eye witness adds that while A-listers like Madonna and Sarah Jessica Parker stopped to talk to reporters, Lea stormed past without a word. Sounds like she could use a trip to charm school!

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

Well, she didn’t really “storm past” anybody because there are enough photos of her at several photo agencies that I know she posed on the red carpet for long enough. Plus, she stopped to talk to Gwyneth Paltrow, who deigned to allow Lea to see the Divine Goop nostrils from a new angle.

So, do I believe this story? Meh. I mean, I don’t believe that Lea “stormed past” but I’ll buy that she had a fashion tantrum. She seems like the type. And she seems like the type to never realize at any point during the tantrum that she’s a B-lister at an A-list event. In other words, most people would be paying attention to other, more important people. That would never occur to Lea though.

Photos courtesy of WENN.