Lea Michele has paid tribute to late ex Cory Monteith annually since his 2013 dying — and the 10-year anniversary was no completely different.
“Hey you. 10 years,” she wrote through Instagram on Thursday, July 13. “It looks like solely yesterday that you simply had been right here and but 1,000,000 years in the past all on the identical time. I maintain all of our recollections in my coronary heart the place they are going to keep secure and by no means forgotten.”
Michele continued: “We miss you on daily basis and can always remember the sunshine you to dropped at us all. I miss you huge man. I hope you discovered Taylor up there and are enjoying 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 previous.
Monteith, for his half, was 31 when he died of an unintentional combined drug toxicity, involving heroin and alcohol in July 2013. He was relationship Michele, whom he met in 2009 whereas filming Glee, on the time of his dying. (The previous couple portrayed Rachel Berry and Finn Hudson on the Fox hit.)
One yr after Monteith’s dying rocked Hollywood, Michele opened up in regards to the plans that they had for the longer term. “We talked about numerous issues. We talked about youngsters and what we might appear to be after we grew previous, and who can be fats and the way we might keep skinny,” she advised Glamour UK in 2014. “We talked about the place we needed to go and what we needed to do. We had been executed. We had been it.”
Cory Monteith and Lea Michele Broadimage/Shutterstock
She added: “Once you’re at that place in your life with somebody, you discuss all the things. However immediately I really feel like I used to be given the perfect 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 in regards to the present,” she stated on a January 2020 episode of the “Showmance” podcast. “One among them was when [Finn] took [Artie] out of the Porta Potty. There have been so many moments that you simply see the entire arc of a personality for an entire season in a single second. Him taking you out of the lavatory, and also you see Finn’s coronary heart. Oh, my God.”
Glee aired from 2009 to 2015 — and Monteith’s dying 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 dying. She honored each Rivera and Monteith by importing black-and-white pictures through 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 kind of like, ‘How is that this occurring? Why is that this occurring?’ Let’s discuss it,’” McHale recalled in November 2022. “Let’s discuss all the things. … It was very nice that everyone may discover a area to really feel snug and open and trusting sufficient to try this.”
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Ushkowitz remembered the same feeling after Monteith died. “However we had been nonetheless doing the present [then]. … Like Kevin stated, after Naya handed, it was like we had numerous area away from the present and numerous time to course of, and lots of people had time to really 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.”
