In her first television interview since her “Glee“ co-star and real life love Cory Monteith passed away, Lea Michele opens up about her loss, how she’s coping and performs the debut of her meaningful single “Cannonball”; from her new solo album “Louder”;.
“It’s certainly been a pretty rough year,”; Lea tells Ellen, “but I’ve been surrounded by such great people, such great family.”; Opening up about the tumultuous time, Lea shares the truth about rumours that she was hiding out at Kate Hudson’s house.
“All those rumours were so weird,”; she says. “She was so wonderful to basically give me her home to myself and my family,”; Lea says of her “Glee”; co-star. “It was so helpful to just basically have a safe place to process and just have a minute to just breathe before getting back to my house which just has a lot of memories…”; Adding later and putting rest to any rumours that the two are not friendly with one another, “I’m just so thankful for her.”;
Opening up about the difficulties she went through after Cory passed, Lea brings to light just how hard it was for her live a “normal”; life with the paparazzi following her every move. “If you smile, it’s like “she’s so happy’ and you know, if you look sad they’re like “she’s terrible’. It’s just really hard, there’s so many different emotions and to kind of have people watching every step of the way,”; she says.
The 27-year-old also told Ellen what is was like to go back to “Glee”;, and why she made the decision to continue with the show. “What people don’t understand is that going to work is no harder than being at home and being in the house and opening up a closet and seeing a pair of shoes. There’s this grief that goes with your everyday whatever you’re doing,”; the actress says. Adding, “I’d rather, for me, be at work with the people who I love that are going through and it obviously has its own triggers, but at the end of the day I feel so safe there.”;
She also opened up about one of her favourite memories with Monteith when he admitted the two were dating on an appearance on “Ellen”;, Lea says, “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.”;
Speaking out about her new solo album, Lea describes how her debut single came to be. “Cannonball,”; was written by singer songwriter Sia who told Lea about it after they got together to write another song on the album called “If You Say So”; that is a collection of memories about Cory. “In that same meeting she said to me “how are you feeling in this moment right now?’, I explained to her, you know, how grief really just, you can get sucked into it,”; Lea says. “You can literally lose yourself if you don’t actually die from it you can lose yourself completely, and so I said to her “I need to get that out. He would want me to live my life’.”;
Continuing on, Lea says “She played it for me …the minute I heard the song, it lifted me up. It picked me up from everything.”; Watch her chat will Ellen below!
