Lea Michele talks about dealing with Cory's death in "Glamour”

Lea Michele is on the cover of the April issue of Glamour U.K. The Glee actress talked about how she's still dealing with Cory Monteith's shocking death last summer.

On her initial reaction:
“At the start, it’s hard because you’re so physically and mentally shocked and damaged, but after a while you get tired of physically feeling so horrendous, so I started doing yoga, which really helped. Then gradually your mind catches up with your body.”


On where she is now:
“I didn’t drown myself in anything toxic. Now I feel a little bit more back together and I have this blank canvas in front of me, which is what my life can be. There’s something sad about that but also something good, because I will take that blank canvas and make something beautiful out of it.”

On feeling Cory's presence:
“Every day when I go running, I feel like he’s pushing me to run harder. I’m just so glad we’re in a new year. I feel  and emotionally very strong. You don’t know how strong you are until you have to be.”

On what they'd planned for the future:
“We talked about children and what we would look like when we grew old and who would be  and how we would stay thin. We talked about where we wanted to go and what we wanted to do. We were done. We were it. When  at that place in your life with someone, you talk about everything.”

On dating in the future:
“I was under a Cory Monteith spell…it’ll take time to  my mind and I’m really not wanting to do that right now. I feel like it’s so important to make sure that I’m 100% OK before I can get into a relationship. But people have to understand that I can’t be alone forever. Cory wouldn’t want that.”