"Rest sweet, Naya. What a force you were. Love and peace to your family," she wrote on Monday. Lea Michele, Glee's Rachel Berry, posted a single photo of her ex-boyfriend Cory Monteith, who was found dead of a drug overdose on July 13, 2013, via Instagram Story that was followed by an image of Rivera.

A source tells Us Weekly that Michele got the heartbreaking call in Los Angeles at around 10 p.m. that evening. The person on the other end of the line had been desperate to reach her before the news broke. Monteith had been found dead just past noon in a Vancouver, British Columbia, hotel room.

Not long after Monteith's death, Michele shared a heartbreaking photo on Instagram, too, speaking for the first time about his death. "Thank you all for helping me through this time with your enormous love & support," she wrote. "Cory will forever be in my heart."

The title of the single "If You Say So" includes the four last words Monteith said to Michele before his untimely passing. "It's just a week ago, you said 'I love you, girl. ' I said, 'I love you more,'" she sings in the song. "And a breath, a pause, you said, 'If you say so.

It also prompted a romance between Monteith and costar Lea Michele, who played his character's girlfriend, Rachel Berry, on the show. The couple were still together at the time of his death, which the show marked by having Finn die in Season 5 on an episode titled “The Quarterback.”

The title of the single "If You Say So" includes the four last words Monteith said to Michele before his untimely passing. "It's just a week ago, you said 'I love you, girl. ' I said, 'I love you more,'" she sings in the song. "And a breath, a pause, you said, 'If you say so.

A new docu-series alleges that Cory Monteith, who tragically passed away in 2013, relapsed just weeks before his death due to his Glee co-star pressuring him to try drinking alcohol at a party.

Michele continued that she misses Monteith. "I hold all of our memories in my heart where they will stay safe and never forgotten," she wrote. "We miss you every day and will never forget the light you to brought to us all. I miss you big guy."

He was 31. On Thursday (13 July), a decade since his passing, Michele, who had been dating Monteith at the time of his death, paid a special tribute to her former co-star in a social media post.

The last time Murphy saw Monteith was when the actor and his Glee co-star and girlfriend, Lea Michele, came to visit Murphy on the set of HBO's The Normal Heart. Murphy remembers: “We hugged, and the last thing he said was 'I love you, man, and thank you for helping me get better.

It centers on the New Directions, a glee club at the fictional William McKinley High School which competes as a show choir while its disparate members deal with social issues, especially regarding sexuality, race, family, teen relationships and teamwork.

Monteith played popular jock Finn Hudson on "Glee", Michele's character Rachel Berry's on-screen love interest. The couple's chemistry wasn't just good on screen: It carried over into a real-life relationship. The two dated for nearly a year and a half up until Monteith's death in 2013.