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"In the past eight months, Hollywood lost actors Cory Monteith and Philip Seymour Hoffman to overdoses as the stars grappled with addiction. But in the case of the Glee lead -- just 31 years old when he died in July -- his costar and former girlfriend Lea Michele wants the world to know that her late love was much more than his struggles.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;#x201C;I only have happy memories of Cory. He was not his addiction &amp;#x2013; unfortunately, it won,&amp;quot; she admitted in the April 2014 cover story for Seventeen Magazine. &amp;quot;But that wasn&amp;#x2019;t who he was. Cory made me feel like a queen every day. From the minute he said, &amp;#x2018;I&amp;#x2019;m your boyfriend,&amp;#x2019; I loved every day, and I thank him for being the best boyfriend and making me feel so beautiful.&amp;#x201D;\r\n\r\nBefore his death, Monteith admitted to struggling with heroin addiction, entering rehab several times. His cause of death was a lethal combination of heroin and alcohol.\r\n\r\nThe actress, 27, who just released her first solo studio album Louder, has spent the months since Monteith&amp;apos;s death coming to terms with her painful loss and pouring her heart into her music.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;#x201C;I set out to make a really pop-heavy album that was fun and empowering, but then I found myself picking and writing these songs that were very emotional and dramatic,&amp;quot; Michele revealed. &amp;quot;Louder has songs that express extreme love and some pain. I look at it and think, That was my year. I didn&amp;#x2019;t record any songs that I didn&amp;#x2019;t completely relate to.&amp;#x201D;\r\nMichele&amp;apos;s Louder features the heartbreaking tune &amp;quot;If You Say So,&amp;quot; which outlines her final conversation with Monteith before his untimely death.&amp;#xA0;\r\nFor a complete review of the album, pick up the latest issue of Us Weekly.&amp;#xA0;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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