When asked if Cory’s death made the cast closer, Lea admitted: “No, I think it really fractured… I can’t speak for everyone, in some ways, it did for certain people, but I think for me, it was so hard. I just completely broke, like, 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 am very grateful for everyone there, whether or not they know it.”
“I personally felt a lot of support from everybody in the building helping to get me through, especially from the crew,” she went on. “The people that would be behind the camera every day, I would be looking at the camera, but looking at the person behind it. Our incredible crew members, everyone that held a camera, sound, lighting, I was looking at those people. They were holding me up so much, as well as the people that were on the show, but a lot of people were gone, also, by then, which was hard.”