Justin Neill, the former roommate of Cory Monteith, spoke out in the upcoming Investigation Discovery (ID) special 'The Price of Glee' about the tragedies surrounding the popular musical series.
Justin Neill was feeling hopeful forThe actor, who had entered rehab in April 2013, was back home in Los Angeles, and appeared optimistic about his future as he focused on his sobriety.
"In the last three weeks, texts and calls would be unanswered," he recalled."That was among all our friends in LA. So we were annoyed and just kind of like, ‘It’s Cory, he needs to go off and find himself.’ But there was definitely a concern. I was having conversations with his friends in Canada. You know, ‘Is he OK?’ ‘Is he staying sober?’ And from all accounts, they made it sound like he was doing really well. And they knew him better than anybody.
Cory Monteith passed away on July 13, 2013, at age 31. The cause of death was listed as "mixed drug toxicity, involving intravenous heroin use combined with the ingestion of alcohol." "When he was telling me about the show, I’m like, ‘That sounds just horrible,’" Neill chuckled."Singing, dancing, high school – what is this? That’s not gonna work. But he drove down here on New Year’s Eve 2007 in his little black Honda Civic with blacked-out rims that he thought were the coolest things in the world – we constantly made fun of him about it… I remember a friend and I were heading out the door to go to a party. He was just staying there, like, ‘Do your thing, guys.
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