In an interview she gave before the untimely death of her boyfriend, Cory Monteith, at 31-years-old Lea Michele gushed about the way he made her feel.
Michele spoke to Marie Claire Mexico before Monteith was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room on July 13, telling the magazine she’s “so thankful for him.”
“It's more interesting having a relationship with someone you work with because we get more attention because we play boyfriend and girlfriend on the show and we are also in real life,” she said, The Mirror reports. “But he is the best person I know, he has made my life so incredible and I am so thankful for him and not only to have him as a partner but also as a co-worker."
Michele, 26, continued, "It is important to have someone that supports you and encourage you, someone that makes you feel that you are unstoppable, that you can do anything in the world because you have him."
E! Online reports Marie Claire Mexico and Latin America Editor-in-Chief Ariadne Grant said that Monteith visited her on set of the shoot.
"Lea Michele arrived early with her beauty team and her agent and was always professional, dedicated and her experience was obvious on the photo shoot but showed another side of her personality, softer and more innocent, on the interview when she got all excited with some questions, she said she loved Mexico so much,” said Grant. “That side was even more evident when Cory showed up almost at the end of the session, she was very happy about him being there."
Grant added that Monteith came and had “great spirits,” adding that he “was very nice to everybody there; he even took pictures with whoever asked for it. He just asked for a Coke and stayed there watching the shooting until it was done. They were both very nice and obviously happy and in love, we are very disrupted by the unfortunate and untimely events. Our thoughts are with Lea."
image: Marie Claire Mexico