Lea Michele has paid tribute to late ex Cory Monteith annually since his 2013 loss of life — and the 10-year anniversary was no totally different.
“Hey you. 10 years,” she wrote by way of Instagram on Thursday, July 13. “It appears like solely yesterday that you just had been right here and but 1,000,000 years in the past all on the similar time. I maintain all of our recollections in my coronary heart the place they’ll keep secure and by no means forgotten.”
Michele continued: “We miss you every single day and can always remember the sunshine you to dropped at us all. I miss you large man. I hope you discovered Taylor up there and are taking part in the drums collectively. 🤍.”
Cory Monteith and Lea Michele Courtesy of Lea Michele/Instagram
Her tribute seemingly referred to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died in March 2022 whereas the band was on tour in Colombia. He was 50 years outdated.
Monteith, for his half, was 31 when he died of an unintentional combined drug toxicity, involving heroin and alcohol in July 2013. He was courting Michele, whom he met in 2009 whereas filming Glee, on the time of his loss of life. (The previous couple portrayed Rachel Berry and Finn Hudson on the Fox hit.)
One yr after Monteith’s loss of life rocked Hollywood, Michele opened up concerning the plans they’d for the long run. “We talked about loads of issues. We talked about kids and what we might seem like once we grew outdated, and who could be fats and the way we might keep skinny,” she advised Glamour UK in 2014. “We talked about the place we wished to go and what we wished to do. We had been achieved. We had been it.”
Cory Monteith and Lea Michele Broadimage/Shutterstock
She added: “If you’re at that place in your life with somebody, you speak about all the things. However in the present day I really feel like I used to be given the most effective a part of Cory, and I’m grateful for that.”
Michele has since moved on with husband Zandy Reich, whom she wed in 2019, however she has persistently honored her ex annually since he handed away. Whereas revisiting Glee‘s pilot episode with former costars Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz, the actress famous that she felt overwhelmed with emotion as she watched Monteith on display screen.
“The moments that made me so emotional weren’t something that ever has made me emotional earlier than concerning the present,” she mentioned on a January 2020 episode of the “Showmance” podcast. “Certainly one of them was when [Finn] took [Artie] out of the Porta Potty. There have been so many moments that you just see the entire arc of a personality for a complete season in a single second. Him taking you out of the toilet, and also you see Finn’s coronary heart. Oh, my God.”
Glee aired from 2009 to 2015 — and Monteith’s loss of life wasn’t the one tragedy confronted by the solid. Naya Rivera died at age 33 after an unintentional drowning in July 2020.
Dianna Agron, Lea Michele, and Cory Monteith on ‘Glee’. Carin Baer/Fox-Television/Kobal/Shutterstock
Michele and Rivera had their ups and downs on set, however the Tony nominee publicly shared her condolences after Rivera’s sudden loss of life. She honored each Rivera and Monteith by importing black-and-white photographs by way of Instagram in July 2020.
Although the solid has skilled hardship within the public eye, Ushkowitz and McHale completely advised Us Weekly that the lack of Rivera introduced the group nearer collectively.
“Everybody was so emotionally uncooked and simply type of like, ‘How is that this taking place? Why is that this taking place?’ Let’s speak about it,’” McHale recalled in November 2022. “Let’s speak about all the things. … It was very nice that everyone might discover a area to really feel comfy and open and trusting sufficient to do this.”
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Ushkowitz remembered an analogous feeling after Monteith died. “However we had been nonetheless doing the present [then]. … Like Kevin mentioned, after Naya handed, it was like we had loads of area away from the present and loads of time to course of, and lots of people had time to truly sit with their emotions,” she advised Us. “And I believe that was additionally actually good for us as a result of we had had the time to replicate.”
