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"Cory Monteith&amp;apos;s mother Ann McGregor is speaking publicly for the first time since the untimely death of her late son.&amp;#xA0;\r\nMcGregor, 63, sat down for an interview with ABC News&amp;#x2019; Bianna Golodryga, which aired on Good Morning America on Thursday morning, June 17. The chat was filmed earlier this week in McGregor&amp;apos;s hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;The loss is horrendous,&amp;quot; McGregor said of her son&amp;apos;s death. &amp;quot;Until three days ago I couldn&amp;apos;t look at a picture of Cory&amp;#x2026; So there&amp;apos;s been progress.&amp;quot;\r\nThe emotional sit-down took place in recognition of the one-year anniversary of Monteith&amp;apos;s death. He passed away on July 13, 2013 at the age of 31 in Vancouver.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nAn autopsy at the time ruled that the Glee star&amp;apos;s cause of death was a &amp;quot;mixed drug toxicity,&amp;quot; which included heroin and alcohol. McGregor spoke about Monteith&amp;apos;s struggle with addiction during the interview.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;[When] Cory was 15, he did a code blue, and I think that was the turning point,&amp;quot; she explained about an earlier overdose. &amp;quot;He had a lot of emotional things he was trying to figure out&amp;#x2014;lot of it was he really wanted a relationship with his father. I think when a child gets invalidated they keep reaching even harder. They want to find out why.&amp;quot; Monteith voluntarily entered himself into rehab in March 2013 for substance addiction.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nMonteith&amp;apos;s father Joe Monteith is divorced from McGregor and became estranged from the family. He was not invited to attend the late actor&amp;apos;s funeral.&amp;#xA0;\r\nWhile his father was no longer a part of his life, Monteith&amp;apos;s former girlfriend Lea Michele is still in contact with McGregor. She said she speaks to the actress over text messages and emails, and added, &amp;quot;She&amp;apos;s hurting too&amp;#x2026; &amp;#xA0;you see the sadness. I know her pain.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nMcGregor added that no one in the star&amp;apos;s life was able to help him. &amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t think we have power to change the choices they&amp;apos;re making,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I think with the kind of connection Cory and I had, if we couldn&amp;apos;t prevent that situation, I don&amp;#x2019;t have the answer.&amp;quot;\r\nWatch McGregor&amp;apos;s interview in the video above.&amp;#xA0;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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