The 38-year-old actress spoke with Jake Shane on his Therapuss podcast, where she opened up about life following the death of Monteith in 2013.

Michele, who played Rachel Berry on the hit Fox series, had been living in the heart of Los Angeles in West Hollywood, when she would hear a bus tour guide pulling up outside of her house.

She could overhear the tour guide talking about Monteith’s death in graphic detail as ‘eerie’ music played underneath.

“There was a tour bus that used to drive by my house … My publicist will probably want to cut this,” Michele began.

“But it was the tour of people that have died. And after everything happened, this bus would come by, it was like the you know, ‘Hollywood tragedy’ tour bus.

“Here I was, 26 years old, and this tour bus would go back by my house. Every day, I would hear these are the details, and eerie music would be playing from the tour bus, and there I was just at home.”

“Everyone should see the shocked faces of everyone behind the camera,” she laughed.

Michele described that period of her life as “so sad and so, so depressing.”

It was this tour that prompted her to relocate to the Pacific Palisades.

The Broadway star, now mother of two, had begun dating Monteith in February 2012.

Monteith died aged 31 in 2013.

In 2020, Michele received backlash after Glee co-star Samantha Ware publicly accused the Funny Girl star of making her life a “living hell” when they worked together.

This prompted other Glee stars to make similar statements.

Michele did not talk about this backlash on the podcast, but she did open up about struggling with heartbreak at the time.

“I think it [Monteith’s death] really fractured so much,” she said.

“I mean, again, I can’t speak for everyone. I think that maybe in some ways it did for certain people.

“For me, it was so hard. I just completely broke. I was in a really one-track mind of just doing my job.

“It was way too much to try to process at such a young age, but I’m very grateful for everyone there, whether or not they know it. I personally felt a lot of support.”

Michele is now married to businessman Zandy Reich. The couple wed in 2019, and share two children together.