Lea Michele Talks Cory Monteith's 'Glee' Tribute Episode

Credit: Getty Images

The Cory Monteith tribute episode of Glee is set to air tomorrow, Oct. 10 and Monteith's real life girlfriend Lea Michele broke her silence about the episode, heart-breakingly admitting that she lost two people when Monteith died on July 13, Monteith himself and his character Finn.

What, no we're not crying, we just got something in our eye. Something really, really big.

"I feel like, for me personally, I’ve lost two people: Cory and Finn," Michele explained to TV Week Australia. "We had a beautiful memorial for Cory in the auditorium and some of the cast members sang and people spoke about him. It only felt right that we would do the same thing for Finn, so I felt it was very therapeutic."

"Everyone is asking: ‘Is it hard to do this? Is it hard to be back at work?’, but the truth is it’s no harder at work than it is in life so we might as well all be together as a family supporting each other to get through this together."

Concluded Michele, "There was no greater man than Cory, so for the time we spent together I consider myself very lucky."

The episode itself, entitled "The Quarterback" is set a week after Finn's funeral and deals with how the New Directions and in turn their real-life counterparts deal with the grief of losing a loved one -- although the show will not explain how Finn died.

Returning cast members will sing songs to honor the passing of their friend so get your hankies ready!

You can catch "The Quarterback" tomorrow on FOX at 9:00 PM EST.