‘The Price of Glee’ investigates the deaths of 3 stars, the show’s ‘curse’

Right here’s what you missed on “Glee.”

The primary trailer for a brand new surprising docuseries “The Worth of Glee” was launched on Thursday giving a primary look into the present’s a number of deaths and scandals.

The three-part ID docuseries will dig into the behind-the-scenes drama of the hit sitcom and examine the sudden deaths of three of the present’s younger stars: Cory Monteith, Mark Salling and Naya Rivera.

“In Might 2009, 10 younger actors made their TV debut on ‘Glee’. By 2020, all of them can be well-known, and three can be lifeless,” the trailer defined.

“Glee” adopted the dramatic lives of a high-school a cappella membership, every struggling to seek out themselves in between musical breaks.

The hit musical present aired on Fox from 2009 to 2015 and rapidly turned a cultural phenomenon, however the present and its solid have been recognized to be riddled with controversies, together with drug use, baby pornography and racism.

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“Glee” aired on Fox for six seasons from 2009 to 2015, skyrocketing its younger solid to fame.
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Mark Salling
Mark Salling was discovered lifeless of an obvious suicide in 2018 at age 35.
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Naya Rivera
Naya Rivera was reported lacking in 2020 earlier than her physique was discovered drowned in a California lake. She was 33 when she died.
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Cory Monteith
Cory Monteith died of an unintended drug overdose in 2013 at age 31.
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A number of solid members from “Glee” held fingers whereas overlooking the lake the place Rivera drowned on the day her physique was found.
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Monteith, who starred because the male lead Finn Hudson, died at 31 of an unintended drug overdose on July 13, 2013, after a years-long battle with substance abuse. He was engaged to his on-screen love curiosity Lea Michele, who was solid as the feminine lead Rachel Berry, on the time of his loss of life.

Salling, 35, who performed unhealthy boy Noah “Puck” Puckerman, was discovered lifeless of an obvious suicide on Jan. 30, 2018, simply weeks earlier than he was scheduled to be sentenced to jail after pleading responsible to possessing baby pornography. Throughout his time on the present, he was accused of rape and abuse and dated his co-star Rivera.

Then a number of years later, Rivera, who portrayed cheerleader Santana Lopez, by chance drowned in a California lake at age 33 on July 8, 2020, after rescuing her 4-year-old son throughout a boating journey. Her physique was discovered on the seven-year anniversary of Monteith’s loss of life.

Rivera had beforehand been arrested for home battery for bodily assaulting the daddy of her baby, Ryan Dorsey.

The present and its solid struggled each on and off the display with loss of life, intercourse, medicine, bodily violence, intercourse abuse, bullying and racism. A number of solid members have spoken out about their time on the present and the drama surrounding it, however “The Worth of Glee” will give the primary complete look into what occurred with “unbiased filters.”

The original cast of "Glee"
“The Worth of Glee” will premiere on Jan. 16 on ID and stream on Discovery+.
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“Hear instantly from these outdoors of the solid bubble who can present no-strings-attached views, equivalent to: relations and associates of ‘Glee’ solid members; those that have been on the set and near it equivalent to set decorators, hairdressers, stylists and publicists; and leisure reporters who lined the phenomenon,” an outline for the present described.

Viewers will get to listen to from individuals near Monteith about his struggles with substance abuse, people who labored with Salling about his disturbing secret and Rivera’s members of the family about her harmful rise to fame.

Followers and members of the present have whispered a few “Glee” curse for years and this new docuseries guarantees to dive into the drama.

“I don’t need to say the ‘C phrase’ — the ‘curse’ phrase — however that’s the place your thoughts goes,” somebody stated within the trailer.

All three-parts premiere Monday, Jan. 16 beginning at 9/8c on ID, obtainable to stream the identical day on Discovery+.

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