A new HBO documentary shows that troubled teen Michelle Carter used dialogue from the TV show to encourage her boyfriend to kill himself in 2014.
One of the more bizarre details to come out of the new film is that many of Carter’s texts – to Roy, as well as her friends – were taken directly from “Glee.” Fox’s musical series starred Lea Michele and the late Cory Monteith, who were an on- and offscreen couple until his death of an accidental overdose in July 2013. The show paid tribute to Monteith and his character, Finn, with an episode that October – the same month Carter began texting Roy dialogue from “Glee” that she passed off as her own, about how he’d be going to a better place and she could learn to live without him.
After Roy’s death, many of Carter’s texts to classmates were also lifted from “Glee” and interviews with Michele about grief
