Fights, Drugs, Parties & Tons Of Sex: 'Glee's Top 12 Craziest Secrets Exposed
Sept. 15 2016, Published 9:56 a.m. ET
Glee gone wild! The hit musical comedy show shocked fans with constant sex, drugs and rock 'n roll— but the hot young cast was even crazier off camera. Naya Rivera reveals all about the stars' antics in her new book, Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes & Growing Up.
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Rivera, now 29, called sex scenes with her close friend, the late Cory Monteith, as "awkward as one might imagine." During their first on-camera hookup, the actor was "a little hot-and-bothered/nervous about the whole thing," she recalls. "Instead of a slow spin, he picked me up awkwardly and turned around so fast that I practically got whiplash."
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The actress' mother was shocked by her many lesbian sex scenes opposite costar Heather Morris. During one steamy kiss, "My mom screamed…and thought I really had stuck my tongue down Heather's throat," she says. "FYI: I didn't. The trick is you go in with an open mouth, then close it as soon as you make contact."
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According to Rivera, the cast had even more insanity off-screen. "When the cameras weren't rolling, the cast and crew were just as close-knit and the dynamics just as messy," she claims. They'd even play spin the bottle and truth or dare!
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Best friends and roommates Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz would often throw parties in their Laurel Canyon home, nicknamed the "Love Nest." "The Love Nest was also where we got one of our cast mates high for the first time, or at least tried to. We fed him a whole bag of weed gummy bears one New Year's Eve," she shares.
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In addition to toking up, the young costars drank champagne and vodka in the party house.
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Rivera was also a hostess, throwing a Christmas party called Snixmas in her Beverly Hills home, named after her drunken alter-ego, Snix.
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Another night at their makeup artist's Halloween party, the crew dressed as toddler Rugrats characters and drank booze out of baby bottles.
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Dianna Agron dated so many men, Rivera referred to her as the eight-times wed Elizabeth Taylor! "Have you ever seen how hot some of the guys she's dated are?" Rivera marvels.
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During McHale's birthday bash, Rivera and Morris did a dance for Monteith in their panties! "I'm pretty sure Cory had a hard-on the entire time," the author reveals.
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She swears she and pal Monteith only kissed one time, "which was rare in a cast that had the sex drive of bunnies and the bed-hopping skills of a polygamist cult," Rivera says.
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Of course, Rivera did secretly dating costar Mark Salling, and admits to trashing his car with dog food and eggs after discovering he had cheated. "He was still scheduled to be gone for a few more days, but by the time we were pulling away the feral cats had already started to come mewing out of the alley and were jumping up onto the car to eat the food," the married mom writes. (Of course, years later, he was indicted on child porn charges.)
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In a tragic twist, the party came to a screeching halt when Monteith succumbed to a heroin overdose in July 2013. Three years after his death, Rivera says she misses "everything about him."
