Glee star Cory Monteith is dead at 31, his rep has confirmed.
The Canadian-born actor, a.k.a. football jock-turned-Gleek Finn Hudson, was found in a Vancouver hotel room yesterday. A cause of death was not evident at the scene, and no details have been released about the scene except that foul play is not believed to have been a factor. An autopsy is set to be performed tomorrow.
So, so sad. (Check out some of Monteith’s most memorable moments on Glee.)
Monteith, who has been open and candid about his past struggles with drugs and alcohol (his family staged an intervention when he was 19, and he managed to turn it around in his twenties), had recently had some sort of relapse. Or something.
The guy completed a rehab stint at the end of April and was seemingly on the mend, looking forward to work, and enjoying his relationship of one year with co-star Lea Michele, whose rep ask that folks respect her privacy at this “devastating time”.
Photo: BuddyTV.com.
Update 1: Click here for celebrity reactions to the sad news, from his Glee co-stars Kristin Chenoweth and Dot-Marie Jones and his Monte Carlo co-star Katie Cassidy, as well as others like Lance Bass, Kim Kardashian, and Mario Lopez.
Here for more, from Glee stars like Harry Shum Jr. and Lauren Potter, as well as Kaley Cuoco, Nina Dobrev, and Joel McHale.
And here for a statement from the producers of Glee.
Update 2: Matthew Morrison also has echoed his shock and sadness over Monteith’s passing by dedicating his performance of “What I Did for Love” during his Up Close and Personal with Matthew Morrison show at 54 Below in New York City tonight.
Meanwhile, former Glee guest Gwyneth Paltrow, also has expressed her sorrow over the news. So has his co-star and friend Naya Rivera.
Update 3: The British Columbia Coroners Service announced on July 16 that the actor died of “mixed drug toxicity.”
It seems Monteith did, in fact, relapse, as heroin and alcohol were found in his system.
Such a shame.
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