Doc Drops Shocking New Details on Cory Monteith’s Final Moments—And It’s Not What You’d Expect!
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Warning upfront: this piece delves into drug addiction and loss, so if your heart’s feeling fragile, brace yourself. Remember when Glee felt like a bubbly burst of Broadway magic? Well, beneath that sparkle hid a darker tale — one tangled with tragedy that’s almost as hard to digest as Mercury retrograde messing with your Wi-Fi. The show launched a constellation of fresh talent back in 2009, lifting stars to stratospheric fame. But by 2020, three of its brightest had tragically burned out. Cory Monteith’s battle with addiction ended abruptly on set; Mark Salling faced a devastating fall from grace, and Naya Rivera’s heroic final moments still echo. It’s like the cosmos threw a cruel curveball, reminding us that even the brightest stars can flicker unexpectedly. Ever wonder if the stars were never really aligned for these young lives? Let’s unravel the heartbreaking saga revealed in The Price of Glee — a must-watch documentary peeling back the layers behind the headlines.
Warning: This article contains discussion of drug addiction which some readers may find distressing.
Glee might have once been a feel-good hit Hollywood series beloved by musical theatre kids across the world, but it has since become a show associated with tragedy.
A group of talented young actors made their debuts on the high-school series back in 2009 and they would all soon become extremely famous. But by the time 2020 arrived, three of them would tragically be dead.
Cory Monteith, who played an American football star turned musical performer, tragically lost his life in 2013 during filming of the show, after mixing heroin and alcohol.
Mark Salling and Naya Rivera, two other huge stars of the comedy-drama, also died in 2018 and 2020 respectively, with the former taking his own life as he faced a prison sentence for possession of child pornography, while Rivera tragically drowned, with her final actions saving the life of her four-year-old son.
While the youngsters aren’t alone in the heartbreaking number of actors and musicians who have sadly lost their lives since appearing on the show, it was perhaps Monteith’s death which was the most shocking, given that his co-stars were forced to address his passing in the show itself.
And now, a heartbreaking revelation has come to light following an Investigation Discovery mini-series titled The Price of Glee, which studies how Monteith, Salling and Rivera sadly lost their lives.
Glee remains hugely popular to this day (FOX Image Collection via Getty Images)
Monteith’s former roommate Justin Neill spoke about how Cory’s actions had changed in the months leading up to his death.
He said: “I specifically remember this being after season two, where he wanted to enjoy some part of life, but he’s just non-stop going, going, going. Cory seemed like he was getting more and more neurotic, and more isolated.”
Elsewhere in the three-part documentary series, which you can watch on Discovery+, former hair stylist on the show Dugg Kirkpatrick came forward and made a distrubing allegation
The Emmy-nominated hairdresser had worked with the star on the hit Fox series and continued to cut his hair after he left the production.
He said: “He was clean all the way up until he asked me for that haircut. He wasn’t drinking, he didn’t have any drugs in his system.
“But then, in the end, in the very last couple days that I saw him, he was different. He was under the influence of alcohol.”
Monteith and Rivera are tragically both now dead (John Medina/WireImage)
And it seems as if Kirkpatrick believes that it was a co-star of Monteith’s that pressured him into relapsing, although he refused to name them.
He added: “He said he was at a party and hadn’t been drinking, and he wanted to have a drink, but he knew he shouldn’t.
“He was told by a certain cast member that night, ‘If you want to have a drink, you should have a drink. I’ll be here, you can trust that I’ll always be here.’”
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