Lindsay Pearce said that one of her most negative experiences on the show came during "Vulnerability" week. Contestants were asked to share some of their darkest moments and insecurities, which would be boiled down to a word or phrase to wear in the "Mad World" music video.

Pearce: They sat us down and essentially asked us to tell them our deepest, darkest secrets. 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." To deal with those emotions, I had to put on a front.

She shot the video wearing a sign that read "fake."

Pearce: That story wasn't on television. The cut is me saying people like me because I'm pretty, which makes me feel fake. That was gut-wrenching, 'cause 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.

Not The Glee Project giving the evil edit to a 19 year old adoptee who was born deaf, just because she is beautiful, and later manipulating her into kissing a fellow contestant for a scene not knowing that he wasn't told she would be kissing him.

Pearce was also involved in one of the show's biggest dramas. During season one's "Pairability" week, Pearce kissed Cameron Mitchell while shooting the "Baby It's Cold Outside" music video, but Mitchell told Insider the kiss was "a setup."

Mitchell: When we'd choreographed the scene, it didn't end with a kiss.

Pearce: Erik White, our video director, said something like, "In this next take, kiss Cameron. It's what we need."

Pearce said White told her kissing had worked well for other contestants, so she should do it as well.

The way Ryan Murphy talked to these kids was super weird at best and the show’s premise in itself is flawed, but it was actually something Robert Ulrich said that made me think of how limited their perspective always way. When Lindsay does one of her last chance performances, she walks off and Robert comments: she’s not quite Lea, she’s not quite Dianna. And like, I get the main idea that he’s going for because they were the original two female leads (for the kids). I get it, but I also think that it’s weird to limit yourself to those two options when you’re already filming season 2 and have 6 different main female characters already. What’s that, they forgot Tina existed, fine, 5.

But, and this is what I’m leading up to. If they were gonna go for the leading lady formula why on earth would they not recognize that potential in Lindsay? You’re supposedly looking for people who inspire you to write stories and here’s this girl who just admitted to feeling like she always have to be the best at everything, put on a brave face, be Little Miss Perfect. Oh, she’s not quite the Rachel type and not quite the Quinn type? Ryan Murphy you’re an award-winning writer, producer, showrunner, all that, just realize that she’s both instead of neither.

In a world where they weren’t concerned with Lea Michelle’s ego and Lindsay Pearce giving her a run for her money, they would have integrated Harmony into the main or at least regular cast as a Faberry love child. A synthesis of the two characters like Kitty ended up being for Quinntana. She could have been a perfect combination of both, mess and all, and it could have been a really cool story to see this overachiever enter the scene and intimidate the crap out of Rachel. Until Rachel realizes that Harmony is suffocating under the combined weight of expectation and impossible inner drive that both she and Quinn have. And then instead of pulling a Sunshine crackhouse thing she’d prove that she has developed and ask Quinn to help this younger girl together before she gets crushed. For Quinn, it could be the push she needs to move on from past mistakes and Beth, since helping Harmony would help her step into a sort of maternal role.