While Lea Michele and Matthew Morrison did date in the past, they dated way before “Glee.” They dated when they were still in the musical dramedy. The person that Matthew truly dated was a friend of the actress. Lea Michele had a public relationship with another Glee star, Cory Monteith who unfortunately died just a few days before they were supposed to get married.
They dated from the year 2009 up until the time when Monteith died in the year 2012. The person that Morrison eventually married is a singer named Renee Puente. They were married back in 2014 and their first child was born in 2019.
Yes, Lea Michele and Matthew Morrison had dated each other before. This is a fact that Lea Michele herself admitted, making it known that she had dated Matthew before glee. She made it known via “Entertainment Weekly†that she used to be a very go friend of Matthew and also explained that she had worked on Broadway with Matthew Morrison before. She did not stop there; she went further to make it known that they had actually dated for a Broadway beat back in those days. As a matter of fact, during a tribute to “The Rocky Horror Picture Show†in 2010, the two of them shared a kiss on stage. She added that people might be trying to actually make things up, but they never went romantic about their relationship then; they had just been really such close friends since they were in New York.