July is a bittersweet time for the Glee neighborhood.

This month marks 11 a lengthy time because alum Cory Monteith died of a drug overdose, as properly as 4 years taking into consideration that the passing of costar Naya Rivera in a boating incident.

“Just this kind of youth,” Jane Lynch, who played cheerleading mentor Sue Sylvester on the present, advised E! Information exclusively at the Critics Alternative Serious Tv set Awards June 15 about operating with her two costars. “They were being so psyched, as we all were. We understood that we have been breathing rarefied air when the display became such a huge hit.”

The Weakest Connection host ongoing, “There is a large hole in our lives simply because of that.”

Rivera, who performed glee club member and cheerleader Santana Lopez on Glee, drowned in California’s Lake Piru July 8, 2020 all through a boating journey with her son Josey, now 7. The actress was 33.

Monteith, who played fellow glee club singer Finn Hudson on Glee, was discovered dead in a hotel space in his indigenous Canada on July 13, 2013. The 31-12 months-prior, who knowledgeable battled material habit all through his existence, was identified to have died as a outcome of combined drug toxicity, involving heroin and liquor.