The actor, who went to rehab several months before his death, had been open about his struggles with substance abuse as a teenager and his ongoing battle in his adult life.
“I’m lucky on so many counts—I’m lucky to be alive,” he told Parade in 2011. “I had a serious problem.”
In an interview with E! News, creator Ryan Murphy revealed he had staged an intervention for Monteith in March 2013, saying, “His last words to me were, ‘I want to get better,’ and I always felt and continue to feel even in his death that he did, that he really wanted to fight it and he was humiliated and shamed.”
Monteith’s death was devastating for everyone on the Fox hit’s set, with a source who works on the show telling E! News at the time, “To say that Cory was much-loved on the Glee set doesn’t even begin to do him justice.”
