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Heather Morris' Message to "Glee" Fans After Naya Rivera's Passing
Heather Morris is recalling a backstage backstage infinitesimal she shared with precocious co-star Naya Rivera.
The Glee alum said Rivera—who died from an accidental drowning successful 2020 astatine property 33—reached retired to her erstwhile she noticed Morris avoiding food while they were connected the Glee Live! In Concert! circuit successful 2010. Morris said that, astatine the time, she was "in a truly atrocious place."
"When we started the tour, I had developed an eating disorder," Morris told erstwhile co-stars Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz connected the And That's What You REALLY Missed podcast Nov. 30. "I stopped getting my period. I was truthful successful my caput astir nutrient and what it was doing for maine and, obviously, this is conscionable a manifestation of what my assemblage was truly going done successful my mind. But I conscionable was unhealthy. I looked astatine each nutrient arsenic bad."
Morris said determination was 1 infinitesimal successful peculiar during the circuit that prompted their precocious co-star to cheque successful connected her, which she stated came from Rivera's own struggles with anorexia which she elaborate successful her 2016 memoir Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes and Growing Up.
"I conscionable had walked into the nutrient hallway with everybody, looked astatine the nutrient arsenic I did each azygous time, and I was like, 'I conscionable don't deliberation I privation that today,' and starred astatine it similar I did each azygous time—I'm definite everybody was noticing—and I went backmost successful the dressing room," Morris shared. "Naya walked in, and I can't retrieve precisely what she was saying, but she was approaching maine astir my eating upset due to the fact that I cognize she herself had eating disorders, and she was precise unfastened astir it successful her book."
She said Rivera's candidness to talk astir the taxable struck a chord with her, adjacent if she was hesitant to unfastened up astir it backmost then.
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"She, of course, was the archetypal to talk up astir it and conscionable say, 'I don't cognize what's going connected with you, but I consciousness similar thing is happening' and conscionable was trying to beryllium determination successful a way, and I conscionable wholly blew it off," The Masked Dancer alum said. "Like, ‘No I'm fine, of people I'm fine.' So, determination was thing other aft that. There was thing to beryllium spoken astir due to the fact that she astir apt got the hint: Like, 'oh, OK. Well if she doesn't privation to speech astir it, she's not acceptable for this conversation.' And that's who she was, she was conscionable ever acceptable to speech astir it."
Reflecting connected the experience, Morris said she and chap Glee alum person much candidly embraced conversations connected their wellbeing since then.
"We're each similar that now," Morris said. "It conscionable takes that clip and spot successful your beingness for you to realize, life's excessively short."
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