Sweet Prince

While preparing for the scene Cory and I got to talking about where I go to school, the National Theatre School of Canada, and he said that he had wanted to go there when he was my age and also mentioned that his mentor graduated from there. Throughout the shoot we continued to talk and Cory ended up offering me a drive back home. On the drive home we talked about the projection of his career and how he was envious of the fact that I am getting to study where I am, as well as his life before and after Glee and the love he has for making quality films (something I have huge respect for and share in the dream of). He told me about his life in Vancouver and offered me his email to keep him updated on my life and if I ever move to Vancouver to let him know. He told me that the reason he wanted to drive me home was because he saw something in me and wanted to talk about what I had in store for myself. I felt so honoured to ride home in a car with someone who has reached the pinnacle of fame and still longs to make quality art and, of course, has rubbed shoulders with the big guys at the Oscars. He is truly a humble and grateful person and it inspired me to make sure to always have my morals no matter where life chooses to take me.

This is my favorite story to tell, actually, just because I was so pleasantly surprised by him. Ok, so I was living in LA on my own, and my sister had come to visit me. I ended up getting us tickets to go and see Bonnie Dune, because I love them and I really wanted to go. So me and JoAnn(sis) we get there, and we wait in line, and everything is awesome. The opening acts were seriously talented. Anyway, after the curtain opens, and Bonnie Dune starts playing(we were all the way in the front. I was leaning on the stage. The Roxy is my favorite place ever.), I could NOT take my eyes off Cory. Seriously, I was stunned by the man. He is seriously gorgeous in person. Anyway. I smiled at him, and like, he winked back and smiled at me and then waved when he had a second. Like. He’s the best eye contact maker ever. I appreciated it. So after the show, I go outside and the opening acts are out there being awesome, and one of the girls from the second band to go on came up to me and we started talking. She apparently saw me clapping and dancing like a fool while her band was performing, so she introduced herself. Well, she was standing with me when I found out my car had gotten towed, and I was stranded in the middle of Hollywood with my sister who didn’t know where the hell she was. It was bad. I had a seriously bad attack bubbling, and I swear, it was going to HURT. So I start shaking, and the girl from the opening band, she tells me to hang on and goes inside. She comes back out, and a few minutes later, so does Cory. He walks up to us and is like ‘Are you Michelle? I heard about your car, and I just wanted to let you know that you’re not going to get stranded here.’ And I was crying, and shaking, and cold, so he hugged me and kept on telling me that everything was going to be ok. And like, there were obviously fans waiting to meet him, but he just kept on telling me that we’d find my car, and we’d be ok. And he walked away to sign for the other girls after like five minutes of just holding me. And it was awesome. Anyway, before he goes inside, he asked if I was ok. And I told him I was. And he went inside. And then one of the security guards helped me and my sister get in contact with the people that towed my car, and he said he’d help us get a ride to the place so we could pick it up. And Cory drives around to the front of the venue, and rolls down his window. And all the girls were like surrounding him, but I was off to the side with my sister and the security guard, and he calls out to me and goes ‘Did you find your car?’ And I told him I had, and he was like ‘Good! Have a good night, I hope we meet under better circumstances next time.’ And he laughed, and waved, and had this adorable smile on his face as he drove away. He was so awesome, seriously. Oh, and he took a picture with me, but I’m crying in it, so I look really bad. And Cory looks frightened. But yeah. So there’s my Cory Story. :D