“There was a reckoning of sorts for all of us in many, many ways.”
The show can’t always go on.
GleealumsKevin McHaleandJenna Ushkowitzhave revealed that the untimely death of castmateNaya Riveraprompted them to endtheir rewatch podcastShowmanceback in 2020.
‘Glee’ stars Naya Rivera, Kevin McHale, and Jenna Ushkowitz.Bennett Raglin/WireImage
“But we quickly realized people just wanted to know aboutGlee.
It was at the very beginning of the [rise of] rewatch podcasts.”
We were just like, ‘Let’s just do it.’
And then after Naya’s passing, we decided we don’t want to do this anymore."
Rivera played the tough-as-nails cheerleader Santana Lopez.
Rivera died in a drowning accidentin California’s Lake Piru in July 2020; she was 33.
The final episode went up a week later.
“I don’t know how we’re going to handle that one, honestly,” Ushkowitz said.
“We’re going to have to just see what happens.”
