GLEE's Matthew Morrison Reflects on Loss of Cory Monteith: 'We Were the Tightest'

By: Nov. 11, 2014
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Matthew Morrison refected on the passing of his GLEE co-star and close friend Cory Monteith at Monday night's Camera Awards in LA. Monteith died on July 13, 2013 from an accidental drug and alcohol overdose.

"It's been up and down, we've had our highs and our lows," Matthew told HollywoodLife.com at the Awards. "The passing of Cory was a hard thing on all of us, but I think it's really brought us all closer. I will look back on this time as very fond memory."

The 36-year-old also revealed that while he loves the entire cast of the FOX musical dramedy, it was Monteith who he had a special bond with. "Cory and I were definitely the tightest," he says. "Since he's passed, I've really gotten really close with Chord [Overstreet] and so that's been really fun. Lea [Michele]and I have known each other forever andJenna [Ushkowitz] and I have known each other forever...I've experienced some friendships that I will always have. Our camera operator is one of my great friends, it's our family we have spent the past seven years with them. I have nothing but high regards and praise for those people."

He also spoke about his wife Renee Puente, whom he wed on October 18th on Hawaii. "I think I knew that she was the one," he shared "Consecutively like day after day, she kept proving things...three months into our relationship, I was on tour with NKOTB and Backstreet Boys and she came on the road with me and lived in a tour bus with me. I knew then it was going to be like this is either going to work or it really isn't, and it really did. Since then, it's been incredible."

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It was recently announced that Morrison will make his return to Broadway in the lead role of Finding Neverland. Mr. Morrison has previously starred on Broadway in Hairspray, South Pacific, and The Light in the Piazza (for which he was nominated for a 2005 Tony® Award). He is known to television audiences for his Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominated role as Will Schuester on the hit Fox show, "Glee." Morrison has also released two studio albums since 2011, with the most recent being Where It All Began - a collection of standards, many first made famous in Broadway musicals.



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