The cast of “Glee” was struck by the tragedy once again last week after California authorities confirmed on Tuesday that actress Naya Rivera died in an accidental drowning incident.
The stars of Fox’s hit musical comedy, which aired for six seasons between 2009 and 2015, quickly paid tribute to their late co-star, who played Santana López since the show’s debut. “Glee” co-creators Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan and Brad Falchuk even announced that they will start a college fund for Rivera’s son. Unfortunately, this is far from the first time that the cast of “Glee” has suffered the loss of one of its stars.
In 2013, while the show was still on the air, Cory Monteith was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room. The actor played one of the show’s key protagonists, Finn Hudson, and was dating co-star Lea Michele at the time in both the show and in real life. The cause of death was eventually determined as an heroin and alcohol overdose. Monteith had been open in the past about his past struggles with substance abuse, but the news still surprised both fans and the cast.
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Cory Monteith died in July 2013 of a drug overdose.
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“He was very special to me and also to the world and we were very lucky to witness his incredible talent, his beautiful smile and his beautiful and beautiful heart,” said Michele shortly after his death. “So if you met him personally or just as ‘Finn Hudson’, Cory reached out and became part of all of our hearts and that’s where he will stay forever. So, thank you so much guys. Thank you.”
Because the show was still airing, the “Glee” characters were forced to address the absence of one of the characters. At the time, the show chose to explain that Finn died, but never gave a reason why the character met his ending.
“That doesn’t matter,” said Kurt, played by Chris Colfer in the episode titled “The Quarterback,” which was established three weeks after the character’s death and saw the other members of the Glee Club deal with the loss of their friend in individual shapes
After the show ended, both the cast and fans were rocked once again after it emerged that Mark Salling, who played Noah “Puck” Puckerman on the show, pleaded guilty in 2017 to possession of pornography. childish. He was scheduled to be sentenced on March 7, 2018, and was facing four to seven years behind bars. However, Salling’s body was found in the Tujunga-Sunland area of California in January. He died of an apparent hanging suicide.
“I can confirm that Mark Salling passed away early this morning. Mark was a gentle and loving person, a person of great creativity, who was doing everything possible to repair some serious errors and errors of judgment,” said Salling’s attorney, Michael Proctor. , to Fox. News of the time.
‘Glee’ actor Mark Salling died by suicide in 2018.
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“[I’ll remember him] like the guy who made that really sweet video at the beginning of ‘Glee’ when he was so happy to be a part of this group, “” Glee “actress Jane Lynch told TMZ at the time of Salling’s death.
Rivera dated Salling during his time on the show. She commented on her child pornography charges in her book “I’m sorry, I’m not sorry.”
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“I can’t say I was totally shocked, but still, WTF?” Rivera wrote about Salling in his book. “My son’s babysitter really told me when the story came out. So I had no doubt that God really supported me along the way.”
Now, the “Glee” community is in mourning once again after Rivera was confirmed to have died in an accidental drowning incident.
Rivera was the subject of a massive search effort led by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office after he chartered a pontoon boat with his 4-year-old son, Josey, and went missing. Police confirmed Monday that a body had been found in the northeast corner of Piru Lake. Hours later, at a press conference, authorities said they were “sure” that he was the former “Glee” star and informed the public that there is evidence to support the theory that Rivera died saving his son.
Actress Naya Rivera died in an accidental drowning accident in 2020.
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The actress is perhaps best known for her role in “Glee,” where she played one of the show’s many LGBTQ characters in one of the sharpest languages in high school William McKinley. As her life progressed past the end of the 2015 show, she remained close to her co-stars and summarized her experience with the show in her 2016 memoir.
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“It would be an understatement to say that ‘Glee’ changed my life. I review it. It got me out of debt. It helped me cement my career. And before the show, I had never had a group of people that I was so close to, “Rivera wrote.
