Cory Monteith’s girlfriend Lea Michele is devastated over his tragic death from a lethal combination of heroin and alcohol but she had been trying to help him kick his drug habit and staged an intervention for him just a few months before he died. 
 
 The 31-year-old Glee actor was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room on July 13 but he struggled with his addictions for a long time, admitting in interviews that he started doing drugs at 13 and went to rehab when he was 19. 
 
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 This year had found him using drugs again, and those around him tried desperately to save him. 
 
 “Before he went to rehab in April, he was in a bad place,” a source told Us Weekly about his actions earlier in the year. 
 
 “He would drink and use drugs – it just spiraled.” 
 
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 The actor never let his addiction affect his work and his girlfriend Lea was blindsided when she learned of his relapse and immediately took action. 
 
 She asked show creator Ryan Murphy to help her stage an intervention a source told the magazine. 
 
 “She told Cory, ‘Clean up or I’m out of here,” a source close to her said. 
 
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 Leah has been staying with friends since she heard the news about her boyfriend’s death and she is discussing funeral plans with his family. 
 
 “The plan is to move the body back to L.A. and bury him there,” the magazine reported. ||||| It's a been a tough couple of days for Lea Michele 
 
 In the wake of the devastating news from the coroner that her boyfriend and Glee co-star Cory Monteith died from a toxic mixture involving heroin and alcohol, the actress' reps has issued a statement on behalf of the starlet in mourning. 
 
 The statement, obtained by Celebuzz, reads: 
 
 “Lea is deeply grateful for all the love and support she’s received from family, friends, and fans. Since Cory’s passing, Lea has been grieving alongside his family and making appropriate arrangements with them. They are supporting each other as they endure this profound loss together. We continue to ask the media to respect the privacy of Lea and Cory’s family.” 
 
 Monteith, 31, was found dead in his room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel in downtown Vancouver, Canada shortly after noon on July 13. He had checked into the hotel on July 6 and had been expected to check out Saturday. When he had failed to meet his check out deadline, hotel staff went to his room where they found him deceased 
 
 On Tuesday, British Columbia Coroner's Office concluded that there was no foul play involved. 
 
 "It should be noted that at this point there is no evidence to suggest Mr. Monteith’s death was anything other than a most-tragic accident," as stated in the press release. 
 
 Monteith had a long history of drug addition. At 16 he battled drugs and alcohol, but credited turning his life around due to an intervention three years later at 19. In March 2013, the actor once again checked himself into rehab for substance addiction. He was later released on April 26. ||||| Cory Monteith Autopsy Report Delayed, Fans Leave Flowers Outside Hotel Where He Died 
 
 Cory Monteith's fans will have to wait a bit longer to get some closure. Despite recent reports to the contrary, the British Columbia Coroner's office tells Us Weekly that they "definitely" will not have toxicology and autopsy reports for Monteith on Monday, July 15. 
 
 The 31-year-old Glee star was found dead in a hotel room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel in Vancouver, Canada on July 13. As for when the reports will be released, the Coroner's office tells Us, "We might well have an update tomorrow, but final cause of death might be several days or even a couple of weeks after that." 
 
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 According to Chief Constable Doug LePard via CNN, the actor checked into the hotel on July 6 and had several people in his room Friday night. He was seen on a surveillance camera returning early in the morning to his room alone. Monteith's body was discovered on Saturday after staff members went to check on the actor after he missed his checkout time. His cause of death was not immediately known, but no foul play was expected. 
 
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 According to the Vancouver Sun, Monteith's fans have created a memorial in his honor by placing flowers and heartfelt notes outside the hotel. Helen Slater, 16, told the newspaper she left a note and a stuffed moose as a tribute to the Canadian, who had been seen wearing moose antlers before his death. "The note says how he was a part of Glee, and how that's kind of changed my life," Slater said. "Nothing's going to be the same anymore. It just put me (through) some really tough times, and helped me through depression a lot." 
 
 Monteith's cousin, Richard Monteith, was also seen placing flowers and a card outside the memorial while wiping away tears. Richard told the Vancouver Sun that they were "decently close." 
 
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 The Monte Carlo actor completed a month-long stay in rehab for substance addiction in April. He had been dating Glee costar Lea Michele for more than a year at the time of his death. A source told Us that the couple was "100 percent happy and together and in love" and were "planning on moving in together after he got back from Vancouver." Michele, 26, has yet to release a public statement on the tragedy. Her rep told Us, "We ask that everyone kindly respect Lea's privacy during this devastating time. Thank you." ||||| Cory Monteith‘s shocking and tragic death seemingly couldn’t have come at a more unexpected and painful moment: He’d completed rehab just a few weeks ago; his show, Glee, was set to start filming Season 5 next week; and most devastating of all, he was making plans to move in with his girlfriend and co-star, Lea Michele right up to the hours before his death. A friend who was with Cory just hours before he died tells RadarOnline.com exclusively that the love of his life was on his mind in his final moments. 
 
 Cory showed up to meet a group of friends at the Portside bar in East Vancouver around 10 pm on Friday night, according to the source. 
 
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 “He wasn’t drinking when we were with him,” the source tells RadarOnline.com, and he didn’t seem to be under the influence of anything else. “He seemed really happy and healthy when I saw him.” 
 
 “[I’d be] extremely surprised [if it turned out he was on drugs that night],” the source says. “He wasn’t super talkative or misty eyed. Just normal. Catching up, chatting, and then on his way. Everyone expected to be seeing him again shortly, so it wasn’t a big night … It was friends getting together chatting about things that have been going on in their lives.” 
 
 For Cory, that meant Lea, and only Lea. “We talked about him moving in with Lea and that was really it,” the source reveals. “He adores her.” 
 
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 And by all signs, after Lea stuck by him through his rehab stay in April, it seemed that he was on track for a happy future with her. But now Cory and Lea’s fairy tale has turned into a nightmare. 
 
 “We are all shocked,” the source says. “No one expected this. When I left we hugged and I said I would “see you later” (as in the next few days) and that was it.” 
 
 Cory’s body would be found the next morning in his hotel room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel in downtown Vancouver. 
 
 Lea’s rep has since released a statement saying, “We ask that everyone kindly respect Lea’s privacy during this devastating time.” ||||| Cory Monteith had accomplished what seemed impossible at one time in his life – beating an addiction to cocaine and ecstasy, one of his friends revealed exclusively to RadarOnline, giving the first details of how much the star overcame to get his life back on track. 
 
 Those details are especially heartbreaking now that the coroner has revealed the official cause of Monteith’s death was a toxic mix of heroin and alochol, with heroin being the primary lethal culprit. 
 
 Monteith’s friend offered the first detailed look into the demons the Glee star battled before his tragic death at age 31 on July 13. 
 
 
 
 While police initially said there was no immediate evidence of illegal drug use, the sad truth came out Tuesday with the official cause of death. Now, one of Cory’s friends is offering a glimpse into the nature of Cory’s ongoing addiction exclusively to RadarOnline.com. And while heroin killed Monteith, his friend says that cocaine and ecstasy were the Glee star’s drugs of choice for years. Cory never detailed the drugs he battled but he was candid that he used many substances and acknowledged how bad his problem was. 
 
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 Cory has said he tried “anything and everything, as much as possible,” as a drug-addled teen. His friend reveals to RadarOnline.com: “He used to be a crazy party animal and I know ecstasy and cocaine was the drug of choice.” 
 
 Stlil, the source says, everyone close to Cory was confident that Cory had cleaned up his act after a rehab stay this spring. He even attended AA meetings in the days before his death, as RadarOnline.com reported. Sadly, that has all now been revealed as a disguise for Monteith’s relapse. 
 
 “His family is in pieces with the loss…it’s not anything anyone prepared for,” says the source. “It’s not like the Amy Winehouse case, where people were kind of expecting it. He really seemed like he was on the straight and narrow.” 
 
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 Even hours before his death, no one suspected there was anything wrong. The source, who was with Cory at Portside bar just hours before his death on Friday, says, “My only worry is whether he was the best actor in the world and could hide drugs that easily. But I don’t think anyone could even do that. He wasn’t zoned out or super hyper. He was just normal. There’s no other way to describe it. That’s what is crushing is we are all waiting with baited breath terrified that he was hiding something from us.” 
 
 And, it turns out, he was. ||||| Lea Michele is trying to come to terms with the death of love Cory Monteith -- and revelations from coroners on Tuesday that the Glee actor had accidentally overdosed on heroin and alcohol. "Lea has been inconsolable," one source close to the singer and actress, 26, tells Us Weekly, adding that Michele "didn't know" that Monteith had relapsed with heroin following his April rehab stint. 
 
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 For now, the FOX star is keeping her mind occupied with funeral arrangements. "She's been talking with Cory's family the entire time and wants to plan the whole funeral," another insider says. Working with her Canadian-born beau's family, Michele is "planning the whole thing," the source says. 
 
 It has, understandably, been a truly difficult time since Saturday's shocking news. "It's an absolute mess," the second insider says. "It's just devastating, tragic news. A lot of his friends in L.A. had no idea how bad his drug use was. Everyone is still shocked beyond belief." 
 
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 At Michele's side for the ordeal is actor Jonathan Groff -- her best friend who became a Broadway star alongside Michele in 2006's Spring Awakening, and who played Jesse St. James, romantic rival to Finn (Monteith) for Michele's Glee character, Rachel Berry. "He flew to be with her as soon as he heard," another pal says. "His heart is broken for her -- and he loved Cory too. The three of them would hang out together." 
 
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 Via her rep, Michele broke her silence about Monteith's passing with a statement late Tuesday. "Lea is deeply grateful for all the love and support she's received from family, friends, and fans. Since Cory's passing, Lea has been grieving alongside his family and making appropriate arrangements with them. They are supporting each other as they endure this profound loss together."
– Here's how TMZ describes it: Lea Michele "essentially controlled" boyfriend Cory Monteith, "[laying] down the law" when it came to things like his drug use—and has continued to do so after his death, taking over all the arrangements. But the gossip site seems to be a bit conflicted, because it also calls her Monteith's "very strong guardian angel" who "always had [his] back and tried protecting him as much as she could." Apparently he wasn't quite as adept at handling Hollywood as Michele, sources tell TMZ. The problem arose when he went to his "other life" in Canada, away from Michele, the sources add. Before Monteith went to rehab earlier this year, Michele supposedly told him "Clean up or I’m out of here," Radar reports. Post-rehab, Michele had no idea Monteith had relapsed and was using heroin again, a source tells Us. In related news, TMZ assures us that Glee won't be canceled in the wake of Monteith's death. Writers had an emergency meeting yesterday to figure out how to move forward with his character's storyline. The show is even currently casting two new actors, E! reports. Meanwhile, Jane Lynch got teary on last night's Tonight Show, reports People. "He was a real bright light in our family, and we've lost a really great guy," she said.