Lea Michele broke her silence after Cory Monteith’s death by posting a picture of them in happier times on Instagram. “Thank you all for helping me through this time with your enormous love & support. Cory will forever be in my heart,” she wrote in a heartbreaking message.
On feeling “settled and happy”
“I don’t even remember a time when he wasn’t my boyfriend,” the actress told Marie Claire in December 2012. “No one knows me better than Cory. No one knows what it’s been like to go through this more than he does. Feeling like you have that net underneath you allows you to jump higher and go farther. He makes me feel like I can do anything. For the first time in my life, I feel really, really settled and happy. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.”
“He’s just so talented”
“He really, really inspires me, and he motivates me, and I think he’s just so talented,” Lea added to Marie Claire.
On being a TV couple
“It’s more interesting having a relationship with someone you work with because we get more attention because we play boyfriend and girlfriend on the show and we are also in real life,” Michele told Marie Claire Mexico in an interview shortly before his death.
On how he supports her career
“It is important to have someone that supports you and encourage you, someone that makes you feel that you are unstoppable, that you can do anything in the world because you have him,” Lea said in an issue of Marie Claire Mexico.
Ryan Murphy’s thoughts on Lea
“If Lea had said to me, ‘I could never do this again and I don’t want to do this again,’ you know, she is sort of the show, so what do you do?” Glee creator Ryan Murphy told E! News. “And I would’ve, out of respect to her as a person, said ‘OK,’ but that’s not how Lea operates; that’s not how she feels.”
How she really feels about Cory
Michele never missed an opportunity to gush about her co-star and BF.
“[Cory] is the best person I know, he has made my life so incredible, and I am so thankful for him and not only to have him as a partner but also as a co-worker,” she told Marie Claire Mexico.
On the days after Cory’s death
“Every day is so hard. Just getting up in the morning means remembering that Cory is gone,” a source told People of how Michele is handling the days after his death. “It’s incredibly painful.”
Lea’s speech at the 2013 Teen Choice Awards
“He was very special to me, and also to the world, and we were very lucky to witness his incredible talent, his handsome smile and his beautiful, beautiful heart,” she told fans at the 2013 Teen Choice Awards. “So whether you knew him personally or just as Finn Hudson, Cory reached out and became a part of all of our hearts — and that’s where he’ll stay forever.”
On moving forward
“It’s incredibly hard, and we’re staying strong together, and I have to say Lea has been the most strongest of all of us,” her Glee co-star, Matthew Morrison, told E! News, adding that Monteith’s death has made the close-knit cast even closer.
“I think we all knew we were very close but I think this just kind of solidified it like we are a rock for each other right now,” he said. “It’s quite a beautiful thing.”
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