Lto his most famous ex, Lea Michele, still remembers it. With a new tattoo, or by dedicating it words full of love when she collects yet another award as an actress. And this despite Cory Monteith is disappeared nine years ago nowat 31 years old.
But how can you forget theCanadian actorwho rose to fame in 2009 thanks to his portrayal of the quarterback Finn Hudson in Glee? Cory Monteith in fact he played the athlete – but also a singer – star of the McKinley High School Glee Clubright from the first episode.
Gleean announced success
Needless to say, the series was a concentrate of successes, thanks to the skill of actors like Cory: Glee was nominated for a 19th Emmy Award4 Golden Globe Awards, 6 Satellite Awards ea nearly 60 other awards. Won the Golden Globe for best television series in 2010, a Emmy Award for Jane Lynch and Neil Patrick Harris and for the direction of Ryan Murphy.
Then, in 2011 the series won another Golden Globe for the best television series: that same year Glee it was even chosen to fill the space after Super Bowl XLV in 2011. A curiosity: the super star Gwyneth Paltrow won an Emmy like best guest star in that television series.
Cory Monteith’s childhood
Cory Monteith’s childhood was not at all simple, quite the opposite. The actor changed 12 schools in a few years, institutes already designed for children with difficulties. These continuous changes did not help, however, because as a teenager he dropped out of school permanently: at 16 his path seemed already lost.
Below, Cory as a child
Also because, despite her young age, Cory Monteith was already there totally addicted to alcohol and drugs. At just 13, the boy had already started drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana, so much so that he ended up in rehab at just 15 years old. At 19, four years later, he ended up in rehab again.
To finance his addictions, he used to engage in petty theftsoften targeting members of his family and friends themselves.
In him, as his mother said, “there was some kind of disconnection. Because he had been sent too far and was always with guys older than him, but he was still small“.
Cory Monteith in 2011. (GettyImages)
“I’m lucky I’m still alive”
He himself recounted the difficulties of that period. “I’m lucky to still be alive“, He admitted. “I’ve burned a lot of bridges. I had a serious problem. I went to rehab but then I went back to doing what I was doing before ».
The actor confessed to having “a considerable sum of money stolen from a member of my family. I knew they would get me but I was so desperate that I didn’t care. “
Cory Monteith’s acting career
After having carried out various professions, such as the taxi driver and workerin 2004 made his debut in the television series Stargate Atlantis, and then participated in several fiction, such as Supernatural And Smallville. At the cinema, however, you have acted – without ever getting a starring role – in films Final Destination 3, Invisible And The devil’s breath.
The turning point in his career, however, took place in 2009 thanks to Gleewhere he plays the role of the charming quarterback also endowed with excellent singing skills.
Below, the cast of Glee
The death of Cory Monteith
Cory Monteith’s young existence ends on July 13, 2013, when the actor is found dead on the 21st floor of the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel of Vancouver.
The hotel staff, seeing that the guest did not leave his room at noon on a Saturday, they entered with a passepartout and they found him lifeless, after a night spent alone, drinking and taking drugs.
It seems that the first responders found near the body «a spoon with drug residuesa needle hypodermic used, two bottles of champagne empty and several glasses ».
The words of Cory Monteith’s mother
Talking about another theory about the young man’s disappearance is the actor’s mother, who told about one difficult dental operation made by Corey a few months before he disappeared. According to the woman, they would have been fatal pain relievers taken from the son, and not real drugs.
“Cory had gods small teeth and they had all been encapsulated with a very invasive surgeryThe woman told the media who interviewed her on that occasion. “She had a lot of medicine in her body, which was not a good thing for the physique of her that she was recently out of rehab“.
Cory in 2009. (GettyImages)
To those who contested this hypothesis, she replied that the son “he didn’t have enough drugs in his body to kill him. But for some reason it happened because of his intolerancewhich had come to be formed later periods of sobriety intermittently“.
Cory Monteith in Glee: the end
The actor was dead, and in addition to the sadness of a life cut short so young, the authors of Glee they had to find the world to make his character disappear simultaneously, with a ruse. Which was expressed in all the delicacy of him in the episode The Quarterbackin which it was communicated that Finn would no longer be part of the cast and in which all the actors they greeted their friend and colleague.
But not just a “friend” or colleague. For one person in the cast, Corey Monteith was so much more: Lea Michele.
Lea Michele and Cory Monteith in 2012. GettyIMages
The actress had been engaged to Cory for a year when the actor became a victim of her addictions. “I’ve never watched the episode of Glee concerning the Finn’s death»Confessed Lea Michele. “I think if I don’t look at it, it means that he’s still here somehow“.
The tribute to Flinn
The song Make You Feel My Love “is really special for me. I don’t even remember what music I was listening to at the time. Maybe, nothing. I was in such a hole … I’m glad Ryan Murphy asked me what to sing in the Finn tribute episode», Said the actress.
In the episode, Michele decided to sing Bob Dylan’s song Make You Feel My Love dedicating it to the beloved and while “I was filming it, I was forced to leave, then I came back. For me it really was painful. We healed together and this song really helped. “
20th Century Fox Television in a statement called Cory a “exceptional talent and one person even more awesome. It was a real joy to work with him and we will miss him terribly. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and his loved ones. “
Lea Michele and Cory Monteith in 2011. (GettyImages)
Lea Michele’s reaction
When she learned of the sudden death of her boyfriend, Lea Michele decided to get Finn’s name tattooed and the number of the football shirt he wore in the series.
Later, when he found himself picking up an ai Teen Choice Awardsin 2013, she dedicated the recognition to her missing boyfriend.
“I want dedicate this award to CoryMichele had declared. “For all of you who you loved and admired Cory like me, I promise you. With your affection, we will get through this moment together“.
Below, the actress with current husband Zandy Reich
Cory was a lot special «For me and for the world. We were lucky to know her incredible talent, her beautiful smile and her wonderful heart. Whether you met him in person or just as Finn Hudson, Cory touched you and entered all of our heartswhere it will remain forever ».
And still today, 9 years after the actor’s death, after being happily married to Zandy Reich and having given birth to a son small, Lea Michele still remembers the beloved ex. That nine years ago she lost the battle against the monsters him, but not the love of those who really loved him.
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