Cory Monteith‘s loss of life modified the way in which Glee alums Jenna Ushkowitz and Kevin McHale felt about rewatching one season 3 episode of the collection.
The pair mentioned the “eerie” season 3, episode 9 story line throughout the Monday, January 7, episode of iHeartMedia’s “And That’s What You REALLY Missed” podcast.
The episode, which aired in January 2012, finds Finn studying his father died of a drug overdose. Monteith died of an unintentional drug overdose in July 2013 at age 31.
The scene “hit a little too close to home,” Ushkowitz, 37, mentioned throughout the recap whereas McHale, 35, agreed, “Way, way too close.”
Finn wished to observe in his dad’s footsteps by enlisting within the military. He believed his father died a conflict hero, however his mother, Carole (Romy Rosemont), revealed that she lied to Finn about his father’s reason for loss of life.
“He died in Cincinnati after being dishonorably discharged,” Carole mentioned tearfully. “Honey, he had a drug problem that he tried to get over when he came home — for you, mostly — but then he would just disappear for a day or a week sometimes. One day, he just didn’t come back. It was an overdose.”
Carole defined that she lied “because your dad was so much more than the last few months of his life.”
Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz David Becker/Getty Images for iHeartRadio
Ushkowitz and McHale had no reminiscence of the arc, so that they weren’t ready to look at Monteith painting such a darkish story line. “We probably don’t remember it because we thought it was just another story line for Finn that was really well done [at the time],” Ushkowitz defined. “But in hindsight, the whole through line of this story line — every line that he said about it — really just struck a different chord that resonated or mirrored his life too closely. It was just really sad to watch.”
McHale added, “Yeah, it felt really dark and morbid watching it. But obviously, there was no way to know what the future was going to be. .. it just felt very eerie.”
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The podcast cohosts have been open about how Glee modified after Monteith and, subsequently, his character died. “Finn was the heart of the show and Cory was the heart of our group,” Ushkowitz, who performed Tina in all six seasons of the musical comedy collection, completely informed Us Weekly in October 2022. (Finn’s loss of life occurred in season 5, episode 3, however his reason for loss of life was by no means revealed.)
“I feel like when Cory died, the show died with him in many ways,” she added. “It became a different show … it was really hard to do and it was never the same, for me at least.”
McHale, who portrayed Artie from the 2009 pilot to the 2015 collection finale, added that he as soon as acquired “flack” for saying as a lot in one other interview. “People on Twitter and all these things were saying that I was, like, talking crap about the show,” he informed Us. “I’m like, ‘No, no, no. I just said the show was never the same after Cory died because obviously it was not.’”
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