Why Lea Michele Exposed Herself to Jonathan Groff Backstage at ‘Spring Awakening’: ‘I Literally Showed Him My Whole Vagina’

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Nothing stands between them — not even underwear. Best friends Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff met while playing lovers on Broadway in Spring Awakening, and the new HBO documentary Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known reveals that they didn’t just expose themselves on stage.Michele, 35, and Groff, 37, played Melchior and Wendla, who have a sex scene on stage during the rock musical, but the Glee alums got up close and personal backstage.“At one point, I literally showed him my whole vagina,” Michele recalled in the documentary. “He was like: ‘I’ve never seen a woman’s vagina before.

Would you show me?’ And I was like, ‘Sure.’ And I took a desk lamp … and showed him. That’s how close we are.”Groff is openly gay, so he had no experience with the female anatomy until Michele gave him a lesson.

The doc detailed this story as they reunited along with the rest of the Tony Award-winning musical’s original cast for a 15th anniversary concert.Michele said she opened up about the bizarre backstage moment because she felt so comfortable with the producers. “Honestly, the great thing about this documentary is it’s a wonderful microscope into who we are as individuals, and not just who people think we might be,” she told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published on Monday, April 25. “Radical Media and the incredible production team behind this documentary, we felt so safe and comfortable with them.”The “Christmas in the City” singer added: “It was so wonderful to talk about this material as an adult and get asked real serious questions.

Not like, ‘What’s it like to have sex with Jonathan Groff every night?’ So I just felt really comfortable with them. With that level of comfortability came a story of just what goes on behind