Lea Michele is opening up about life with Cory Monteith, who died last year of a drug and alcohol overdose, and the future she and Monteith were planning together, ABC News reported.
"We talked about a lot of things. We talked about children and what we would look like when we grew old and who would be fat and how we would stay thin," Michele told the April issue of UK's Glamour magazine. We talked about where we wanted to go and what we wanted to do," she told the April issue of UK's Glamour magazine.
Michele added: "We were done. We were it. When you're at that place in your life with someone, you talk about everything. But today I feel like I was given the best part of Cory and I'm thankful for that."
The "Glee" stars met on the set of FOX's hit show and had been dating for two years before Monteith's death on July 13 at age 31. The 27-year-old actress revealed that she recently started feeling "a bit more back together."
"I have this blank canvas in front of me, which is what my life can be," she told the magazine. "At the start, it's hard because you're so physically and mentally shocked and damaged, but after a while you get tired of physically feeling so horrendous.
Michele said she does yoga to keep her mind at ease and added that she still feels his presence every day and feels more "physically and emotionally" strong.
"I lost my grandfather a couple of years ago and I always feel that he's watching over me," she said . "I feel the exact same way about Cory. Every day when I go running, I feel like he's pushing me to run harder."
The singer also talked about her hope in finding love again, just not anytime soon.
"And I was under a Cory Monteith spell...it'll take time to readjust my mind and I'm really not wanting to do that right now," Michele said. "I feel like it's so important to make sure that I'm 100% OK before I can get into a relationship. But people have to understand that I can't be alone forever. Cory wouldn't want that."
Michele paid tribute to Monteith new song "If You Say So".
"It's about my last conversation that I had with him," she revealed to Seventeen. "I spoke to a woman who lost her son, and she mentioned how grateful she was that the last words she said to her son before he died were, 'I love you.' Mine were that as well. [The song] is just about that. There are lots of different emotions--if you could see this person again, what are the things you would want to say to them? It's a personal story."
Michele's debut album, Louder, drops on March 4.
