Lea Michele Was In Love With Jonathan Groff Before He Came Out

Lea Michele is opening up about what she first felt for longtime BFF Jonathan Groff.

In a new interview, the 35-year-old actress revealed that she was once in love with Jonathan, before he came out as gay.

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Revealed in the upcoming HBO documentary Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known, Jonathan and Lea both opened up about how their relationship went from co-stars, to friends, and got really intense, really fast.

“Lea and I were given this material where we had to fall in love,” Jonathan says. “Lea and I, we were grasping onto each other, we were really in love.”

At the time, he was still coming to terms with his sexual identity.

“Coming from a religious background surrounded by the Amish, I felt…ashamed of who I was. I guess I was also afraid that if people knew who I was, they wouldn’t find what I was doing believable,” he added.

Lea chimed in, saying that she “felt like I had to take him under my wing, but then I fell in love with him in more ways than one.”

She then admitted that she was “so in love with him.”

“Finally, I cornered him at a party, and I said to him, ‘Why don’t you love me? Just love me. Why can’t you love me? Date me. Love me.’ And I just saw this look in his eyes, and in that moment, I knew,” Lea says. “I realized in that moment, ‘This is the end.’ And I need to protect this. This is intense.”

“And I never asked him again about his sexuality and it was sort of this… I think he felt safe with me because he knew that I knew and that we could be best friends, and our relationship just grew and grew to the point that we would do the show and then we would go home together. That’s why Jonathan and I became so close. We were so intertwined.”

In a previous interview, Lea made a shocking confession about her relationship with Jonathan. See what it was here!