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"Twentieth Century Fox Television released a statement about Cory Monteith&amp;#x27;s private memorial to honor the late actor. It reads: Today, Ryan Murphy and Lea Michele gathered the cast, crew, and producers of Glee, along with colleagues from the network and studio, to share memories and music in an emotional celebration of the life of Cory Monteith. We thank the public for their continued outpouring of love and support as we grieve our friend and colleague during this difficult time. Fox added that since the memorial was private, they will not be releasing additional details, but due to enormous public interest, they wanted to issue a statement. Meanwhile, as I mentioned the other week, I just so happened to have conducted one of the last-known interviews with Cory Monteith at the Chrysalis Butterfly Ball last month in L.A. Having to write about Cory&amp;#x27;s passing, just weeks later, was one of the most difficult things I&amp;#x27;ve ever had to do as a journalist. My interview with Cory lasted only a few minutes, but my impression of him will last a lifetime. There was a true genuineness about him&amp;amp;#8212;a quality that I don&amp;#x27;t see in a lot of actors. In some ways, it was like Cory didn&amp;#x27;t look at himself like the TV star that he was&amp;amp;#8212;he was a regular guy who just wanted to love and live life. That&amp;#x27;s part of what makes his passing so heartbreaking. As I mentioned before, he thanked me for our interview, shook my hand while asking for my name again, really appreciating our talk on that inspirational June night. I said to friends the following day, &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m rarely so impressed by someone.&amp;quot; I shared my thoughts last night with Eric Dane (formerly of Grey&amp;#x27;s Anatomy, soon to be starring in TNT&amp;#x27;s The Last Ship) at the TNT 25th Anniversary Party. Eric and his wife, Rebecca Gayheart, are responsible for the Annual Chrysalis Butterfly Ball, which was Cory&amp;#x27;s last public event. It is a cause that has always been near and dear to Cory, and it&amp;#x27;s why he&amp;#x27;s always wanted to lend his support (read about the sweet gesture he made at the Butterfly Ball the year before last here). Talking to Eric about Cory was cathartic for me, but I also wanted to give Eric a chance to talk to you guys about his interactions with Cory: &amp;quot;I just think it&amp;#x27;s very sad. It didn&amp;#x27;t have to end that way,&amp;quot; Dane told me. &amp;quot;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t want to be insensitive to him or his memory by relating it to something that didn&amp;#x27;t have to do with me. It&amp;#x27;s sad. I believe that he was sincere in what he said [to you about never giving up and persevering].&amp;quot; Eric was very hands-on planning last month&amp;#x27;s Butterfly Ball, and while he&amp;#x27;s reluctant to take too much credit (&amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s my wife who does all the hands-on stuff and takes people downtown and does all the tours. She spends a lot of time on that.&amp;quot;), he added what many of us already knew: &amp;quot;Cory was a really sweet, sensitive guy. It just doesn&amp;#x27;t have to go down that path.&amp;quot; At previous events that I&amp;#x27;ve attended over the last couple of weeks, I&amp;#x27;ve seen fellow journalists ask past Glee guest stars about Cory, wanting to know any uncovered details. It&amp;#x27;s an odd situation and one that I try to steer clear of. I get it: There is something comforting about hearing someone tell a sweet story about an actor who was so beloved, but all too often, these guest stars don&amp;#x27;t really know the person. But at what point does the media start respecting someone&amp;#x27;s memory and leave the stories or anecdotes to the ones that knew him best instead of a quick soundbite from a casual acquaintance? I appreciated when Eric told me that he&amp;#x27;s very careful when he shares memories about those he didn&amp;#x27;t know intimately. &amp;quot;I feel like the people that should be talking about him are the people that knew him really well. It&amp;#x27;s just a bummer that when we talk about him, we have to use &amp;#x27;was&amp;#x27; so many times.&amp;quot; Even though Eric didn&amp;#x27;t know him intimately&amp;amp;#8212;or work with him on Glee&amp;amp;#8212;he did have a front-row seat to a cause that meant a lot to Cory, and one that I feel really summed up what Cory wanted for himself: a fresh start, a new beginning, a chance to show that when going through tough times, what really matters is that you keep going. That is the tie that binds. To learn more about Chrysalis and the phenomenal work the organization does, please visit the website here. I&amp;#x27;ll have more with Eric and some lighter moments from the TNT party coming tomorrow. Photos: TNT"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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