Cory Monteith, who played heart throb Finn Hudson in the Fox hit "Glee," was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room Saturday, Vancouver police said. He was 31.
Police said the cause of death was not immediately apparent, but they ruled out foul play.
Medical examiners will conduct an autopsy on Monday.
Monteith's body was
discovered Saturday noon by staff members at the Fairmont Pacific Rim
Hotel after he missed his checkout time, acting Chief Constable Doug
LePard told reporters.
He had checked into his room July 6.
The actor apparently had
several people over to his room at one point Friday night, but LePard
said Monteith was seen on hotel surveillance video returning to his room
in the early morning hours by himself.
One of his castmates on "Glee," Mark Salling, tweeted a simple "no" after police held their news conference.
"We are in shock and mourning this tragic loss," his publicist, Melissa Kates, said in an e-mail.
Monteith spent time in rehab early this year, checking into a drug addiction treatment facility in April.
He had been frank about
his struggles with substance abuse, telling Parade magazine in 2011 that
he began using drugs at 13, and by 19 went into rehab after his mother
and friends intervened.
Monteith had been on the musical comedy show since it began in 2009.
In 2011, he won a Teen
Choice award for top actor in a comedy. The show's cast won a Screen
Actors Guild award for an ensemble in a comedy the prior year.
Source : http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/14
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