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  • Lea Michele and Boyfriend Matthew Paetz Call It Quits

    Lea Michele, best known for her role as Rachel Berry on Glee, and her boyfriend of two years, Matthew Paetz, have called it quits.

    A source tells E! News that in spite of the breakup, Lea is doing just fine.

    “She’s doing well and is focusing on friends and work,” the source says. “This has been very sudden and hard, but if anyone can pick herself up it’s Lea. She has a great network of friends.”

    Matthew Paetz was the first person Lea Michele took a chance at love with following the untimely death of her longtime love and Glee costar Cory Monteith. Known for his Glee role as Finn Hudson, Cory died of an accidental overdose in the summer of 2013.

    Since the split, Lea Michele has kept busy, and appears to be leaning on her close network of girlfriends.

    “Girls day at @coteshop w/ my girl @itsbeccatobin ???,” she captioned this Instagram post from a couple of days ago.

    A photo posted by Lea Michele (@msleamichele) on

    Us Weekly reports Lea Michele is crushed by the split, and that Matthew Paetz had “had enough.” He supposedly refuses to take her back. The publication, of course, fails to mention why. E! News reports he wouldn’t give Lea Michele a reason for breaking up with her.

    Are you surprised to learn Lea Michele is once again single? The Scream Queens star is talented and beautiful–not to mention rich. It’s unlikely she’ll be that way for very long.

  • Lea Michele Talks Emotion, Power of ‘Glee’ Finale

    Lea Michele is preparing to say goodbye to her role as Rachel Berry on the hit TV series Glee. The show will air part one of its final episode on Friday night.

    In a recent interview with the L.A. Times, Lea Michele talks about the show that made her famous–and paired her with her first real love, the late Corey Monteith.

    Monteith died of an accidental overdose in Vancouver in July of 2013. He and Lea Michele were in love. He was honored in a farewell episode in October of that year.

    “That was the day I fell to my knees and cried. I literally had to call my mother to come,” Lea said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

    When discussing the show’s finale, Lea Michele remembered the first time the cast was together.

    “I will always remember the pilot episode. Singing “Don’t Stop Believing” with the original kids. That will be forever frozen in my mind. Everything from then on was just this whole sort of spinning,” she said.

    E! News writes about one scene in particular that was viewed prior to Friday night’s Glee finale. The cast even shared word of this scene with Ellen DeGeneres during a recent visit to her show.

    “Will (Matt Morrison) appears to be singing Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s “Teach Your Children” to a room full of strangers and friends alike, including his current students and a few alumni including Tina, Artie, Sam, Blaine, and Kurt, but it’s clear that the song is really aimed at one person in particular, and that person is Rachel Berry,” the publication writes.

    “We were crying so hard they actually cut,” Lea Michele told Ellen DeGeneres.

    “She starts finding it hard to catch her breath about halfway through, which means we couldn’t catch our breath halfway through, and by the time Will blows her a kiss at the end, we were a blubbery mess. We can only imagine what we’ll be like tonight when the show says its final, final goodbyes with a two-hour finale, including a whole hour of brand new flashbacks to 2009, when the original members of the glee club first met. The second hour will flash forward five years to 2020, and then it will all be over, and we’ll have to find our emotional cover songs, clever insults, and inspirational speeches about loving ourselves as we are somewhere else,” E! News reports.

    It must be bittersweet for Lea Michele and the rest of the Glee cast to know that tonight’s episode is part one of the show’s finale. It must be especially bittersweet for Lea Michele–even though she has moved on with a new love–to realize Corey Monteith isn’t sharing this milestone with the rest of them.

  • Lea Michele Bids Adieu to Rachel Berry and ‘Glee’

    Lea Michele said her first official goodbye to her character, Rachel Berry, as well as to Glee, the show on which she has starred since 2009, on Saturday. While subsequent goodbyes are certain to take place, Lea Michele has wrapped her filming for the show, and this marks the end of an era for the actress.

    Glee will have aired for a total of six seasons and 121 episodes when fans officially say their goodbyes during the show’s finale in March.

    Even though Lea Michele has moved on with a new man, saying goodbye to Glee will likely stir up some old emotions regarding the passing of her boyfriend and costar Cory Monteith. Monteith played the role of Finn Hudson, who was long in a relationship with Michele’s Rachel Berry on several seasons of Glee. Monteith died in July of 2013 of an accidental drug overdose.

    Lea Michele thanked her fans and her Glee cast and crew via Twitter on Friday and Saturday.

    Can you believe Glee is ending after six seasons? Do you think you will miss the show anywhere near as much as Lea Michele will?

  • Lea Michele Talks Cory Monteith One Year Later

    Lea Michele is remembering Cory Monteith today–the one-year anniversary of her boyfriend and former Glee costar’s untimely death. Monteith died from a heroin overdose in a Vancouver hotel room last July. The two had been dating for more than a year. Even though the actress and singer has started to move on, she will forever hold dear her treasured memories of time spent with Cory Monteith.

    Lea and Cory starred opposite each other on Glee–she in her role as Rachel Berry and Cory as Finn Hudson–and were at one point a romantic couple on the show as well as in person.

    Earlier on Sunday Lea Michele posted a touching tribute to Cory Monteith in the form of a tweet. It includes a photo of the young actor with a backdrop of a beautiful beach sunset.

    Lea’s message was retweeted by former Glee costar Chris Colfer and thousands of followers and fans.

    Several other Glee cast members also tweeted their tributes to Cory Monteith on Sunday.

    Matthew Morrison had the following to say.

    Dot-Marie Jones posted two tweets.

    Amber Patrice Riley shared the following message.

    Jenna Ushkowitz posted a photo on Instagram in memory of Cory. Her caption reads, “365 days since you’ve gone and not a day passes we don’t remember your smiling face. We miss you buddy. Thanks to everyone for your love and support today while we remember our quarterback.”

    Among the more poignant messages–sent via Twitter–came from Glee’s creator Ryan Murphy. Simple and understated, it spoke volumes.

    While Cory Monteith’s family members and Lea Michele are no doubt feeling a much deeper level of grief over his passing a year ago, it’s plain to see that his costars are still feeling his loss, too. Perhaps after this first year of mourning many will find some closure in the aftermath of Cory’s tragic passing.

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  • Cory Monteith: Lea Michele Talks Life Without Him

    Cory Monteith died of a drug overdose in Vancouver back in July, and this week his girlfriend and Glee costar Lea Michele told Ellen DeGeneres what life is like without him. Losing Cory meant losing the man she loved both on TV and in real life. Michele’s role as Rachel Berry played opposite his as Finn Hudson. Now five months after Cory’s passing, Lea is trying to be strong in both her personal and professional lives.

    “It’s certainly been a pretty rough year,” Michele told Ellen DeGeneres. “But I’ve been surrounded by such great people, such great family.”

    Cory Monteith was just 31 years old when he died, and at just 27, Lea Michele is struggling to put the pieces back together again. Kate Hudson played an instrumental role in helping Lea heal. She allowed her to hide out at her home after Cory died, so she could have some privacy in which to grieve. The life of a Hollywood actress seems so exciting–and it probably is. But when someone faces a life-altering tragedy like this one, they need to be as far-removed from the spotlight as possible.

    Just one month after Cory died, however, Lea Michele went back to work.

    “[Glee co-creator] Ryan Murphy, who is so amazing, he came to Kate’s house and he said, ‘What do you want to do? Whatever you want to do, we’ll do.’ I said, ‘I have to go back to work. We have to . . . they’re my family,” Lea explained to Ellen.

    That work would wind up being among her saving graces. Lea’s first solo album comes out in February, and music dedicated to Cory Monteith will appear on it.

    Ellen reminded Lea of her 2012 interview with Cory–just about a year ago. He confirmed that he and Michele were a bona fide couple on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

    “It’s one of my favorite memories,” Michele told DeGeneres. “I remember when he came home that night, he kind of puffed out his chest and he was like, ‘I talked about you on ‘Ellen’ today.’ I was so happy. He’s such a private person, and I literally lived every day of my life feeling like the luckiest girl in the whole world. I just thought he was the greatest man and so at that moment, that memory, it means so much to me.”

    What a difference a year makes. Lea Michele’s life has been immensely changed and a talented young actor and singer is gone. Perhaps one day Lea will make sense out of the tragedy that impacted her so profoundly. Maybe she will do more work in Cory’s honor to help keep his memory alive.

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  • Lea Michele Moving On After Cory Grief?

    Lea Michele Moving On After Cory Grief?

    Fans of Lea Michele shared in her grief when news broke of her tragic boyfriend’s death, Cory Monteith, in July. Along with other costars of the popular television show, Glee, Lea Michele publicly gave a heart-breaking tribute to the thirty-one-year-old actor.

    Us Weekly has reported that Lea was overheard talking about spending time with someone else. According to the source, “She was excited he was coming.” Additional details have not been released at this time.

    One of the Glee co-creators, Ryan Murphy, spoke with The Wrap about the emotional turmoil cast members from the popular show faced when filming the tribute episode about Finn Hudson who had been played by the late Cory Monteith.

    “Almost everything in that episode is from the first take of every performance, because the actors and the crew had a really hard time shooting it,” he said. “I’ve never seen a crew where you can’t continue shooting because they left the room sobbing.”

    Lea Michele left a personal message on her Twitter about Cory being in her heart for forever. However, fans will be happy to hear that twenty-seven-year old Lea has been comforted to move on and enjoy her life.

    Fortunately for fans, Lea was excited to get back to work and took to Twitter to share her enthusiasm.

    [Images Via Wikimedia Commons/ Lea Image Courtesy of David Shankbone Glee Cast Photo Courtesy of Keith McDuffee]