‘My publicist will want to cut this': Lea Michele shocks with reveal
The US actress, 38, recently sat down with Jake Shane for an episode of his Therapuss podcast, where she opened up about the premature death of her then-boyfriend and Glee co-star in 2013.
Michele, who was at the peak of her fame playing Rachel Berry on the hit Fox series, was living in the heart of Los Angeles in West Hollywood when she would hear a bus tour guide pull up outside her house, talking in graphic detail about Monteith's death to a group of people alongside 'eerie' music.
'There was a tour bus that used to drive by my house … My publicist will probably want to cut this,' Michele began.
She continued, 'But it was the tour of people that have died. And after everything happened, this bus would come by, it was like the you know, 'Hollywood tragedy' tour bus.
'Here I was, 26 years old, and this tour bus would go back by my house. Every day I would hear these are the details and eerie music would be playing from the tour bus and there I was just at home.'
Michele paused, looking to the audio team in the room filming the interview.
'Everyone should see the shocked faces of everyone behind the camera,' she laughed.
Michele, who described the period of her life as 'so sad and so, so depressing', said the confronting intrusion eventually prompted her to relocate to the Pacific Palisades area higher up in the hills.
The performer, now a mother of two, began dating Monteith in February 2012, with the pair still together at the time of his death aged 31 in July 2013.
Asked whether the cast of Glee banded together in the wake of Monteith's passing, Michele simply responded, 'No.'
The Funny Girl star's reputation copped a beating in 2020 when her co-star Samantha Ware publicly accused Michele of making her life a 'living hell' when they worked together, as several other Glee stars coming forward with similar stories.
Michele didn't reference the backlash she faced, but did admit to struggling with heartbreak at the time.
'I think it [Monteith's death] really fractured so much,' she said.
'I mean, again, I can't speak for everyone. I think that maybe in some ways it did for certain people.
'For me, it was so hard. I just completely broke. I was in a really one-track mind of just doing my job.
'It was way too much to try to process at such a young age, but I'm very grateful for everyone there, whether or not they know it. I personally felt a lot of support.'
Michele is now married to businessman Zandy Reich, whom she married in 2019.
The couple share two children, a son born in August 2020, and a daughter born August last year.
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