Lea Michele covers Elle: Kate Hudson helped me cope with Cory Monteith’s death
Lea Michele covers the December 2013 issue of Elle Magazine.
Inside the issue, the former Glee actress (the show has since been cancelled) reveals how she coped in the immediate aftermath of boyfriend Cory Monteith’s death.
“I called [Kate Hudson when Cory died] and said, I don’t know where I’m going to go because my house is swarmed [with reporters.] She was like, ‘Oh, you’re going to stay at my house.’ Like it was nothing,” Lea begins.
She adds, “She let my family stay there, and any of my friends. She made sure that in the refrigerator were my favorite juices… I’ll never really be able to thank her, truly, for what she did for me.”
Lea continues, ”I never thought I would be in this position in my whole life. Now that I’m in this position, you can choose to rise, which is what I’m going to try to do. It’s very hard, and you have to be very strong to come out of this alive, but I think by doing the best for myself, by showing that you don’t have to lose yourself, maybe someone else will feel some sort of strength or comfort.”
She adds, “I know that Cory would want nothing more than for me to take this situation and use it to help people. I don’t know if I will. I don’t know how,.”
Lea says she and Cory dated from very early on at Glee, but “no one really caught on.”
Then, in 2011, she admits, “We just looked at each other and we were like, ‘You wanna do this?’ We knew.” She adds, ”From the minute I met Cory, I was like, ‘This is the most handsome man I’ve ever seen in my whole life.’”