While promoting their new podcast, “And That’s What You Really Missed,” “Glee” co-stars Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz talked Naya Rivera’s untimely death in 2020.
FOX Image Collection via Getty Images“Thinking back on, like, funnily in the spirit of Naya, who would just speak her mind and was so good at making sure we all spoke our mind and spoke up for each other … it was weird timing,” McHale remembered. “Like, why is this happening now?”
Rivera wasn’t the first “Glee” cast member to die prematurely. Cory Monteith, who was dating Michele at the time, died in July 2013 from a heroin overdose. “[Cory] did bring us together as well … but we were still doing the show,” Ushkowitz, 36, told the mag. “There was a lot to lose. There were, you know, jobs at stake. There was just a lot.“Like Kevin said, after Naya passed, it was like we had a lot of space away from the show and a lot of time to process, and a lot of people had time to actually sit with their feelings,” she continued. “And I think that was also really good for us because we had had the time to reflect.
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