Actor Cory Monteith was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room last week. He was 31. The coroner investigating has declared the cause of Monteith’s death to be a toxic combination of heroin and alcohol.
Monteith had been very open about his struggles with drug addiction in the past, and had just finished a stint in rehab this past April.
Cory was one of the bright young stars of Fox’s hit series Glee. His character Finn Hudson was the sensitive football jock who joined the McKinley High glee club under duress but grew to become one of its foremost proponents, and protector of the other, often downtrodden, members. In his last season, his character had graduated high school and was becoming a teacher and glee club mentor himself. Meanwhile, his showmance with Broadway-bound character Rachel (played by his real life girlfriend Lea Michele) weathered long distance (she went to school in NYC and he stayed behind in Ohio) and romantic temptations on both sides. Any fan of the show, and even non-fans, could see creator Ryan Murphy had their happiness together as a couple as the endgame of the series. Who knows what could have happened in coming seasons?
We’ve written about Cory before, mainly because he was hot and on a very gay-centric show. That’s one of Manhunt Daily’s reasons for being (“hot” and “gay-centric”). But truthfully, and not trying to do that thing where you suddenly cast the person who’s died as a saint, Cory seemed like a sweet guy. In every interview he did, whether it be in print or on camera, he came across as humble and very aware of how success in showbiz is a combination of talent and luck. His co-stars and other people who knew him seem to agree on what a special person he was. The character of Finn was popular not for his singing or dancing talent (Finn was notorious for not being that great of a singer, and his dancing was comic relief at best), but for becoming the heart of Glee. He was the quintessential dumb jock who was actually just naive, and almost always ended up trying to do the right thing.
And in real life, Cory was a straight ally. This reflected his character’s friendship with his gay stepbrother Kurt, which was a relationship he initially resisted (check out the infamous “faggy” lecture he received from Kurt’s dad).
Your heart breaks for his girl. He was so young. There’s no telling what Glee (which has lost some of its sparkle in the past couple of seasons) will deal with this loss. Or what Cory would have gone on to do in his own career. This is just sadness all around.
– J. Harvey
Check out some pics of Cory, and the clip which started it all (the performance of “Don’t Stop Believin'” from Glee’s pilot) below.
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True, he may not have been the best actor/singer/dancer on the show, but there was that “something” about him that seemed to hold the stoies together. The other members of the gleeclub seemed to think that THEY were the best. Cory/Finn just stayed grounded.
Sad yes.. but I don’t have sympathy for people who choose that kind of path.never watched the show
May you never have the kinds of upheavals and trauma in your life that might lead you to seek solace in something like drugs (or alcohol… or whatever). Self-righteousness and lack of compassion and sympathy for others who weren’t as fortunate as you is SUCH an attractive quality. Asshole.
I guess to a degree, we all have limited empathy. Interesting that you’re so free displaying yours.
Horse, smack, HEROIN. That is one tough lover. CM’s first trip to rehab was at 19. I’m not casting aspersions … addiction like that is often just too difficult to overcome. We’ve lost bigger and brighter and now this one too. This I do know, we do not know his pain and should not judge. Survivors have to deal with the loss and move on without being caught in the morass of the inexplicable.
God, he was beautiful…. Rest In Peace Corey
Fuck that and fuck you. They told you drugs were bad at sunday school and such, and you just believed them. Bet they also said that sucking another guys cock was bad too, but you tried that didn’t you you fucking self righteous cunt.
I’m sorry, he couldn’t sing,couldn’t act ,couldn’t dance and “fin and rachael” drove me crazy. I would rather fuck the hot asian guy-Mike Chang.He was the reason I watched the show. “DRUGS BAD”
Tragic that we lose yet another of our brighrt and talented to addiction… what a shame!
Never ceases to amaze… no, depress me how viciously users will defend drug use as logical and justified. I’m sympathetic if someone has a drug problem because it takes tough internal work to get over it. You need to embrace or at least tolerate and address loneliness and fear all on your own, yup, grow up and do it. But I still think drugs are a total copout on every level. These feelings (sympathy, and conviction that drugs are inherently bad and inherently avoidable) aren’t contradictory.