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A ‘Glee’ curse? Fans reject the idea, but show has been haunted by tragedies

News that former “Glee” actress Naya Rivera went missing while boating on a lake in Ventura County has devastated fans who flooded social media on Thursday with urgent demands to “keep searching,” while rejecting any talk about a “Glee curse.”

Sadly, the incident, which authorities described as a possible drowning, marks the latest tragedy to afflict the cast of the popular TV musical dramedy, which ran on Fox from 2009 to ’15. Authorities Thursday morning said that Rivera, 33, was presumed dead, and that the search has shifted from a rescue to a recovery mission.

The first seismic blow to the show and its cast occurred in July 2013, when Cory Monteith, who played lovable quarterback Finn Hudson, was found dead in a hotel room in Vancouver, British Columbia. An autopsy report revealed that  Monteith, 31, had died from a toxic combination of alcohol and heroin.

Tragedy struck again on Jan. 30, 2018, when Mark Salling, who played bad boy Noah “Puck” Puckerman, was found hanging from a tree in a riverbed near his home in Sunland, California. His suicide occurred just six weeks before he was due to be sentenced to four to seven years in prison for possession of child pornography.

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