Before the accident

chapter 10

After we ate cory took sawyer to her mothers parents so i gues her grandparents because, he had to be at work earlier than usual. she is adorable and she 10 so she doesnt want to be called that anymore. she going to be a mess but luckliy she has cory aroun to keep her kinda normal. maybe she'll just get goofeier as the years go by.... cory says that he has another secrect but idk if im ready for it.... his last one was pretty big..what if this ones even bigger....

L- cory about your secrect.. i changed muy mind you can tell me if you still want too.
C- of course i want too but it pretty big...
L- its okay im ready.
C- i used to be a drug addict and still have withdraw sometimes but it was before sawyer was born and ive cleaned myself up i promise i wouldnt do anything to harm her or anyone else in my life and i only told you because i have an interview with parade magazine in the morning and thats what we are going to talk about because apprently in the world of hollywood im to perfect and dont do anything wrong.
L- Cory I think that's a good idea but you know you could've of told me... That's the past and I'm okay with it.
C-really.?
L- yes.. Does sawyer know?
C-no.
L- should she.
C-no.
L-but...cor-
C- i said no.
L- fine.
C- sorry. I just don't think she's old enough to know.
L- I understand.
THE INTERVIEW. (Lea reads the interview in the magazine)
Football - and singing - star at William McKinley High School, Finn Hudson is quite a role model, as evidenced every week on Glee. But he's also quite a work of fiction.

"I'm not Finn Hudson," the actor who plays him, Cory Monteith, tells Parade magazine in an eye-opening interview that will appear Sunday.

When it comes to his present and his past, Monteith, 29, admits, "I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive."

A precocious child whose parents divorced when he was 7, Monteith was, at 13, skipping school, getting drunk and smoking pot in his native British Columbia. By age 16, he says, "I was out of control."

His pot use escalated to drugs. "Anything and everything," he says, "as much as possible. I had a serious problem."

Fearful he "could die," Monteith's mother and some friends staged an intervention - and, at 19 Monteith found himself in rehab. "I did the stint but then went back to doing exactly what I left off doing," he recalls.

The turnaround came unexpectedly. "I stole a significant amount of money from a family member," he says. "I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care."

Accused of the theft, Monteith replied, "Yeah, it was me" - an admission he calls "the first honorable, truthful thing that had come out of my mouth in years."

The relative delivered an ultimatum: get clean or face robbery charges. Now looking back, Monteith says, "I was done fighting myself. I finally said, 'I'm gonna start looking at my life and figure out why I'm doing this.' "

He adds: "I don't want kids to think it's okay to drop out of school and get high, and they'll be famous actors, too ... But for those people who might give up: Get real about what you want and go after it."