Lea Michele Talks About Cory Monteith's Death in First TV Interview [VIDEO]

Lea Michele believes that Cory Monteith would have wanted to move on with her life.
Michele is set to appear on The Ellen DeGeneres show on Thursday, Dec. 12. She opened up to the talk show host about the pain she has been in since her Glee co-star and boyfriend Monteith died in July of a drug overdose. The 27-year-old actress explained how she has begun to put her life back together in the months since the 31-yeaold died.
"It's certainly been a pretty rough year," Michele said. "But I've been surrounded by such great people, such great family."
Michele lauded actress Kate Hudson for being there for her. The Almost Famous star allowed Michele the use of her home in Los Angeles to ensure her privacy.
"She was so wonderful to basically give me her home to myself and my family," Michele said. "It was so helpful to just, basically, have a safe place to process, and just have a minute to just breathe before getting back to my house with just has a lot of memories and stuff. So being some place else to just have a moment was really nice."
Michele also addressed criticism that she has moved on too quickly since the death of her boyfriend of more than a year. She pushed back against that charge, insisting that her work on Glee and releasing a new album has helped her to heal.
“I'd rather, for me, be at work with the people who I love that are going through [it.] It obviously has it's own triggers, but at the end of the day I feel so safe there,” he said.
Michele also said that Monteith would not have wanted her to be swallowed up in grief.
“I think at a certain point you can choose to sort of fall from this or you can choose to rise. And that's what I'm just trying to do my best for him, because I know that that's what he would have,” she said.
Watch a clip below.