‘Price of Glee’ trailer touches on role of fame in the deaths of three ‘Glee’ actors

A brand new trailer for “The Value of Glee,” a three-part restricted collection concerning the Fox collection “Glee,” discusses the function fame performed within the deaths of three actors from the hit TV present.

Within the 11 years following the collection’ Might 2009 debut, three of the present’s fundamental actors died, the trailer for the Investigation Discovery documentary underscores in its opening seconds.

As dramatic music crescendos, the trailer flashes photos of a makeshift memorial for Cory Monteith, who died at 31 from a drug overdose in 2013; scenes of Lake Piru, the place Naya Rivera died at 33 in 2020; and a photograph of Mark Salling, who died by suicide in 2018.

“I don’t wish to say the ‘C-word,’ the ‘curse’ phrase, however that’s the place your thoughts goes,” one interview topic says.

The trailer introduces themes of fame and media consideration thrust on the younger stars who broke out with “Glee.” Seemingly in a single day, as the recognition of Ryan Murphy‘s Fox collection exploded, the newcomers grew to become family names.

“The larger the present went, the smaller their worlds grow to be,” one other interviewee says.

Later, the identical interviewee says his first response to their deaths was “blame” and that he “nonetheless looks like there’s somebody in charge.”

The surviving starring solid members of the present are notably absent from the trailer, although Rivera’s father seems and remarks, “Fame might be toxic.”

“I knew that was the highest of the mountain for Naya, to your child,” George Rivera says. “It was simply surreal.”

Naya Rivera, who performed cheerleader Santana Lopez,, drowned in Lake Piru in July 2020 after saving her then-4-year-old son whereas the pair boated collectively.

Monteith, who starred as Finn Hudson, a highschool soccer star-turned-gleek, was the primary solid member to die. In 2013, he was discovered lifeless in a Vancouver resort room from an unintended overdose of alcohol and heroin.

“Fame was exhausting for him,” one among Monteith’s buddies instructed Individuals after his dying. “It was one thing he knew he deserved however someway he by no means fairly knew the right way to deal with.”

Maybe essentially the most controversial of the deceased solid members was Salling, who in late 2015 was arrested on suspicion of receiving and possessing youngster pornography.

Salling, who performed soccer jock Noah “Puck” Puckerman, died by suicide in early 2018. It was simply days earlier than his sentencing and after he had pleaded responsible to the costs.

Co-star Heather Morris defended Salling in a collection of tweets in 2020, writing, “We didn’t simply lose 2 solid members, we misplaced 3. And it’s SO unimaginable robust to should act like that third one is invisible, as a result of regardless that his actions are unjustifiable, he was part of our household at one level and he was mentally SICK.”

Morris has since walked again her feedback, which drew outrage when she appeared to excuse Salling’s actions by saying “pedophilia is a illness.”

The three-part docuseries will premiere Jan. 16 on ID.