It’s a tragedy that still shocks fans to this day.
Ten years ago, on July 13, 2013. Glee‘s breakout star Cory Monteith he was was found unresponsive at the Fairmont Pacific Hotel in Vancouver. The cause of his death was later revealed to be from drugs, heroin and alcohol found in his plan. He was 31 years old.
A month after his unexpected death, Fox’s team filmed it the title of the tribute episode “The Quarterback,” which finally aired in October of that year.
“It’s an episode I was able to watch once,” the producer Ryan Murphy he said, realizing that after Monteith’s death the joy had disappeared Glee‘s set. “And I didn’t look back.”
Leah Michele—Monteith’s girlfriend at the time of his death—understood that pain. In fact, he never saw the part. “I think if I don’t see,” shared before“it just feels like Finn is still around.”