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 dined at a Vancouver restaurant and was photographed during his meal, apparently relaxed and enjoying the company of others, just over 24 hours before he died. 
 
 Monteith had dinner at Vancouver’s East of Main Café with Maureen Webb, a British Columbia-based casting agent, and Elena Kirschner, his manager, during which a photo was posted on Twitter showing him in the shadows of the venue. 
 
 “Great meal with good friends,” Kirschner wrote as the caption for the photo. The Glee star later re-tweeted the missive and used the image as his post picture on his own Twitter page. 
 
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 “We are deeply saddened by the unexpected death of our good friend, Cory Monteith,” Webb, the co-founder of Project Limelight Society, a Vancouver charity close to the actor’s heart, told RadarOnline.com. 
 
 “Cory was an amazing young man with a generous heart. Our heart goes out to his family, fans and close friends. Cory was a friend and will be dearly missed.” 
 
 During the dinner, Monteith “looked so good, so healthy,” Webb added. “I hadn’t seen him look that good in a long time.” 
 
 She said no one drank alcohol at the catch-up. 
 
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 There were unconfirmed reports Monteith, 31, had partied at the Roxy Nightclub and The Queen’s Republic Nightclub in the hours before his death, however, both venues would not confirm to RadarOnline.com if was there. 
 
 Cops are investigating whether drugs were at the center of the tragic and sudden death and an autopsy will take place on Monday to determine the official cause and manner of death. 
 
 He died alone in the 21st floor room of the Vancouver Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel sometime in the early hours of Saturday morning. ||||| 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‘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 appeared a few months ago as if he was truly looking forward to the future, having finally put behind him the demons of substance abuse that had plagued him since he was a youth. 
 
 "Sending out my love to everyone," the "Glee" star said in a late April tweet to fans following a monthlong stint in rehab. "Thank you for the continued support. It means the world to me." The tweet ended with a smiley face. 
 
 He was pictured in magazines that month smiling and vacationing with longtime girlfriend and "Glee" costar Lea Michele, who had proclaimed her steadfast support for Monteith through his struggles. And he was planning to return to "Glee," the television show that had made him a heartthrob for fans known as "Gleeks." 
 
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 Monteith's apparent happiness and turnaround made the news of his death even more shocking to costars and fans. The body of the 31-year-old actor was discovered Saturday shortly after noon in a room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel in downtown Vancouver after he failed to check out as scheduled. 
 
 Police noted there seemed to be no evidence of foul play and said an autopsy was planned for Monday to determine the cause of death. 
 
 Monteith had been staying at the hotel since July 6, and hotel security records indicated he had returned to his room in the early-morning hours of Saturday and was believed to have been alone at the time of his death. 
 
 "OMG!! My Cory..." tweeted Iqbal Theba, who plays Principal Figgins on the Fox series, which will be entering its fifth season this fall. Dot-Marie Jones, who plays Coach Shannon Bieste, tweeted, "I have no words! My heart is broken. Cory was not only a hell of a friend he was one amazing [man] that I will hold close to my heart forever." 
 
 Representatives for Michele, who recently has been putting the final touches on her debut album, released a statement Sunday: "We ask that everyone kindly respect Lea's privacy during this devastating time." 
 
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 How Monteith's death will affect the series, which revolves around graduates and present members of a high-school choir filled with an odd collection of characters whose love of performing brings them both pleasure and pain, remained uncertain Sunday. Executive producers and executives at 20th Century Fox Television and the Fox network had not had any discussion about how the sudden death would affect the show, according to a source close to production. 
 
 Monteith had not appeared in the final episodes of the fourth season last spring due to his rehab stint. 
 
 He was one of the key attractions of "Glee," which launched with a splash in 2009, becoming an overnight sensation with its catchy renditions of popular tunes and Broadway standards. Monteith played Finn Hudson, a somewhat-clueless but kind-hearted jock who had a love for singing — and for exuberant singing star Rachel Berry (Michele). 
 
 At the height in the second season, the series was averaging more than 10 million viewers a week. But by its third season,"Glee" couldn’t hit the high notes quite like it used to. The latest season averaged 8.7 million viewers on Thursday nights. 
 
 Through the show's ups and downs, the fresh-faced Monteith had always displayed a public air of excitement and frequent awe over his fame and popularity. But he was also open about his substance-abuse problems, which dated to when he was a youngster growing up in Victoria, Canada. 
 
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 His parents divorced when he was 7, and Monteith lived with his mother. In an interview with Parade magazine in 2011, he said that by the age of 13 he was skipping school to get drunk and smoke pot. By age 16, he had tried "anything and everything, as much as possible. I had a serious problem." He attended 12 different schools, including alternative schools for troubled teens. 
 
 His family staged an intervention when he was 19, and he went to rehab. "But then I went back to doing exactly what I left off doing." Stealing money from a family member proved to be a turning point. He moved in with a family friend in Nanaimo, a small city in Canada, quit using drugs and got a job as a roofer. 
 
 Monteith began taking acting classes and working with a coach. He had bit parts on "Smallville" and "Final Destination" early in his career. A recurring role in "Kyle XY" in 2006 and 2007 was his most prominent TV part before "Glee." 
 
 He wasn't exactly a natural fit for the musical show. Creator Ryan Murphy wanted to cast young people who could act, sing and dance. Monteith didn't consider himself a "triple threat," so he sent in an audition tape of him playing "the drums" on Tupperware. 
 
 When Murphy requested another tape of him singing, Monteith obliged with what he called a cheesy rendition of the REO Speedwagon '80s classic "Can't Fight This Feeling." He got the job. 
 
 In a 2009 TV interview in Canada, Monteith said he didn't know if he would be typecast due to his "Glee" role or what the future had in store for him. He indicated that he wanted to keep acting and work hard, and believed the rest would follow. 
 
 "I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow," he said. 
 
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 Cory Montheith dies: found dead in Vancouver hotel ||||| The entertainment world was shocked Saturday night when Vancouver police announced Cory Monteith, the actor who played Finn on Fox's Glee, was found dead in a hotel room Saturday afternoon after a year spent struggling with addiction. 
 
 Doug LePard, acting chief of Vancouver police, told reporters Saturday night that the 31-year-old Monteith, a Victoria, British Columbia native, was found by hotel staff shortly after noon on Saturday at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel in downtown Vancouver. The actor, who broke out playing Finn Hudson on the Fox show, had missed his check out and staff found his body in the room, alone, when they went to check on him. Family, co-workers and fans have to wait for the autopsy and investigation results to find out exactly what killed the fresh-faced star, but police are trying to piece together what happened in the 24 hours leading to Monteith's death. LePard ruled out foul play when speaking with reporters, and said hotel security video showed Monteith leaving with friends Friday evening only to return to his room alone early Saturday morning. 
 
 Monteith had a serious history with substance abuse, which crept back into his life earlier this year, forcing Glee writers to explain him off the back half of last season. He checked into a rehab facility in March -- his second stint searching for recovery, the last coming when he was just 19 years old. 
 
 "Cory was an exceptional talent and an even more exceptional person," said Fox and 20th Century Fox Television, Glee's producers, in a statement. "He was a true joy to work with and we will all miss him tremendously. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones." 
 
 Monteith had struggled in bit roles before breaking out as Finn during Glee's first few seasons. He was the football star, the cool kid, who didn't want to have anything to do with glee club. He joins, of course, and went on to become one of the show's most important characters: "As Monteith played him, Finn was also often the heart and emotional anchor of a show that could take dizzying plot twists and roller coaster shifts in tone," writes Time's James Poniewozik. Finn also competed for the affection of the two cutest girls on the squad. One of those girls, actress Lea Michelle, became his real life girl friend. 
 
 Want to add to this story? Let us know in comments or send an email to the author at connorbsimpson at gmail dot com. You can share ideas for stories on the Open Wire. ||||| 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.
– There's no word yet on what killed Cory Monteith—the autopsy is scheduled for today, Fox News reports—but one thing is certain: After completing a month in rehab in April, Monteith seemed upbeat and looking forward to whatever the future held, the Los Angeles Times reports. He was seen in magazines vacationing with girlfriend and Glee co-star Lea Michele, and it appeared he had turned things around. In his last interview, he told E! he was "really, really happy to be coming back" to Glee; one of E!'s sources says he was "committed to getting sober. He would say this was his last chance." Then he was found dead in his Vancouver hotel room Saturday just after noon; security records show he had returned to the room in the wee hours that morning. Police say he went out with friends Friday night, but was alone when he got back to his room, the Atlantic Wire reports. Two days before his death, Monteith had "a quiet night with a lot of laughing" with a mentor who runs a children's arts charity, she tells People. "He looked so good, so healthy," she says. "I hadn't seen him look that good in a long time. ... He was in great spirits." (Click to see a photo from the meal, which could be the last photo taken of Monteith.) The mentor says no one drank alcohol during the meal, but TMZ notes Monteith was drinking on July 6, the day he checked into the hotel. Many of his Glee co-stars, as well as the show's producers and Fox network, are reacting to Monteith's death, but the only official word from Michele's rep: "We ask that everyone kindly respect Lea's privacy during this devastating time." A source tells HollywoodLife that Michele, 26, "is absolutely hysterical and completely inconsolable. She is devastated beyond belief."