A week after "Glee" star Cory Monteith's death the show's co-creator Ryan Murphy revealed how the show would proceed without one of its most beloved character's Finn Hudson.

In an interview with E! News Murphy discussed how the show will move forward with season 5 after much speculation that the series would be canceled in the wake of Monteith's tragic death.

The co-creator announced the series would return on September 26th, one week after its scheduled air date. According to E! News the show will air three episodes and then take an "extended hiatus" to regroup.

In an interview with the network Murphy talked about his relationship with the fallen star. Murphy revealed, "His last words to me were, 'I want to get better,' and I always felt and continue to feel even in his death that he did, that he really wanted to fight it and he was humiliated and shamed.

"We reassured him that the only thing that mattered was him getting better and his job was 100 percent protected because he thought he was going to get fired. "

He continued to say, "That has been feeding into all of this, why it's so shocking and so debilitating and tragically sad because we were all rooting for him and trying to help him in every way that we could, so it feels even more devastating."

So the big question is who made the big decision that the show would return and not go off the air? The co-creator said that in the end he let Monteith's on and off screen girlfriend Lea Michele make the final call.

Murphy said, "Ultimately the person who made the decision was Lea, who felt that the best thing for the cast and crew was to be together and to get back to work and be together every day and talk about our memories of him.

"So we decided to do that with Lea's blessing and we're going to go back to work and have grief counselors on the set for two weeks because people are really hurting."

When asked if he considered ending the show, Murphy revealed that it was definitely an option, he said, "Yes. If Lea had said to me, 'I could never do this again and I don't want to do this again,' you know, she is sort of the show, so what do you do?

"And I would've, out of respect to her as a person, said 'OK,' but that's not how Lea operates; that's not how she feels. She's handled this with so much humanity and grace and she's also handled this in a way where she's trying to look out for 500 other people affected by him and who have mortgages to pay and families to feed.

"That was never on the table for her and I said, 'OK.' Nothing has been done and will be done in terms of any of the material without Lea blessing it and making sure it's OK with her-and she has been. So Lea has made the big decisions. Yes. And I've never met any 26-year-old person stronger than Lea."

Murphy went on to say, "She's really been the leader in this situation, which is very unfair in a weird way because this show has always been so complicated about characters merging into personal lives, merging into public identity, so it's just all [bleeping] rough.

"It's just rough and it sucks and there's no right way to do it, but I just wanted people to know that there was nothing done without a lot of thought from a corporate level to a personal level, but ultimately, everyone involved made the decision, 'OK, what does Lea want to do, what would Lea feel comfortable doing?' This is what she wants to do."

Following the airing of "Glee" season 5 episode 3, Cory Monteith's tribute, do you think the show will return to the air or that it will be the last we see of the hit series? Let us know your thoughts and leave us a comment below.

To read the rest of Ryan Murphy's interview check out eonline.com.