'Lea has taught me how to stand up for myself': Glee's Dianna Agron on her special friendship with co-star

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 01:40 EDT, 16 April 2011

Lea Michele once pushed a man for kissing her Glee co-star Dianna Agron, it has been revealed.

The incident happened when the two actresses were on a plane in Australia flying from Sydney to Melbourne.

Agron, 24, tells U.S. Marie Claire: 'Lea taught me how to stand up for myself more, like realising that I can't be in ten places at the same time.

Bosom buddies: Glee star Dianna Agron has opened up about her special friendship with co-star Lea Michelle, pictured here together in May 2009

'She's also very protective.

'Once, we were flying from Sydney to Melbourne when a crazy guy grabbed my face and kissed me.

'Lea yelled and pushed him off of me.

'A mean stewardess who hadn't seen it turned around and said: 'You two be quiet!'
'And Lea yelled: 'No, that man just kissed my friend'.'

Agron - who plays Quinn Fabray in the hit TV series - dismisses rumours that she and Michele, also 24, are lovers.

The actress says: 'Everybody is convinced that Lea and I are in a relationship.

'There are supposedly forums with photos of us hugging at work or events.

'It's funny, but flattering - Lea is beautiful. Since when can't you hug your friends?'

The interview with Agron is just one of three profiles with the Glee girls in the May issue of U.S. Marie Claire.

Michele, who plays Rachel Berry, and Amber Riley, who plays Mercedes Jones, also spill the beans about working on the hit series.

Opening up: Dianna shares the cover of U.S. Marie Claire magazine with Lea and Amber Riley

All three women say they get on really well, despite rumours to the contrary.

They even have a regular girlie night that they call the 'First Wives Club.'

Michele says: 'It started a year and a half ago.

'The girls would get a bottle of red wine and stay a few hours after work to hang out and catch up in my trailer.

'Now we do it whenever we want.

'Occasionally we'll let one of the boys in and it's so funny to hear them talk about it. They're like: "Have you been to First Wives Club?"

'''I've been once... did they let you in? They let me in last week but they wouldn't let me in this week".'

'We also hang out a lot together off the set - I'm with Dianna, Amber and Jenna [Ushkowitz who plays Tina Cohen-Chang] nearly every day.'

In character: She plays Quinn Fabray in the hit TV series

Michele also admits to having a good relationship with her male cast mates, revealing that she teases Cory Monteith - who plays Finn Hudson - about the day he dropped her on set.

She says: 'In the Rocky Horror episode I had a scene where I fainted and Cory would catch me.

'We did it 600 times, but on one take he forgot to catch me and I hit the deck, hard.
'I will never let him live that one down - the day he dropped me.'

The women also open up about their real-life high school dramas.

Agron says she was once accidentally punched in the nose while attending a party with two of her classmates.

She says: 'So people are drinking and the three of us are standing in this terrified triangle.

'All of a sudden, this senior gets into an argument with a guy next to us, and as I'm turning to see what's going on, she goes to punch him and I get clocked in the nose instead.

'Blood is everywhere. Meanwhile, somebody caught it all on video and the football team was like: "We've been watching it in the locker room. You should have seen your face!"

'I was Bloody-Nose Girl for a while. I have a deviated septum from that night. It's why my voice is so nasally.'

Riley, 25, says she is not a carbon copy of her Glee character.

'Mercedes and I share confidence,' the plus-size actress says. 'But I would never dress that way!

'I love colour, but all the sneakers and neon and jewellery that she wears?

'I also never had her insecurities about weight - I was skinny in high school - but I love that now I get to show girls how to be comfortable with their bodies.'

Riley says that being on Glee has helped her to fulfil all of her own high school dreams.

Revealing that being on the show makes her feel 'unstoppable,' she says: 'In high school I had to write a bucket list.

'Meeting the President, being on Oprah, and going to - not being nominated for - the Grammys were on my list.

'And I've done all of that through Glee.

'Standing on the White House balcony last year to sing the national anthem next to Obama, I couldn't look at my cast mates - those idiots on the lawn - because they were so excited for me, they were bawling.

'I flew home the next day and I swore the plane would crash.

'I was like: "That's it! What else is there left to do?'''

The U.S. Marie Claire is available to buy from April 19. Read the full story at www.marieclaire.com