The ex of Naya Rivera shares last moments recalled by Son

Naya Rivera’s ex Ryan Dorsey shares details about the Joy Star’s last moments before she died in 2020.

In his first sit-down interview since the death of Rivera, the actor opened up for People Magazine about how their son Josey, now 9, still keeps guilty about not being able to save the actress, who drowned while she and her then swam the 4-year-old son in Lake Piru in Ventura County, California.

“Something he has always said is that he tried to find a life raft, and there was a rope, but there was a big spider on the rope, and he was too scared to throw it,” said Dorsey. “I keep reassuring him,” Buddy, that rope wouldn’t be long enough. ”

Josey also revealed that because it was windy that day, he was worried about entering the water. But Rivera assured him and told him, “Don’t be crazy!”

When Rivera noticed that the boat was starting to float, since it was not equipped with an anchor or flotation devices – an unlawful death procedure that was tensioned on behalf of Josey against Ventura County was established in 2022 – she was wearing her son to swim back to swim back to The boat.

According to Dorsey, the 9-year-old remembers that he would swim back to “the tanks” and pulled himself “around the boat”. (The incident report said that Rivera exhausted itself to get Josey back on the boat and drowned.)

“He said that the last thing she said was his name, and then she went down, and he didn’t see her anymore,” said Dorsey. “It just rocks my world that he had to see her last moments.”

Rivera, who played Santana Lopez on the Fox Musical Series Joywas declared dead at the age of 33 after her body was found five days later.

The deceased star had rented a boat and went for an excursion with her son on July 8, 2020. When the rental boat was not returned to the deadline, employees who were the rental wall work were looking for them, and that is when they found her son alone In the boat. Authorities started a search for Rivera led by a team of divers who believed that they drowned in a ‘tragic accident’.

Rivera’s son was reportedly unharmed. He reportedly also said the researchers that he and his mother had swam in the lake, and although he came back into the boat, she did not.

Dorsey also revealed that he was in a Ralph’s supermarket in Big Bear Lake, California, when he heard that Rivera was missing after he had been called by the family of Rivera. “I collapsed in a pallet with drinks,” said Dorsey. “I feared the worst.”

He also said that while he drove to Lake Piru, “the whole road was 100 with my four-way sailing, chain-smoking cigarettes and I didn’t even smell, real and just cry.

“I just wanted to come to Josey,” he said. “If we had lost both Naya and Josey, I don’t know how I would continue with my life. I don’t know what I would have done, but I am sure it would not have been good. “

In one of her latest reports on social media shared days before her death, Rivera posted a photo of herself and Josey wrote: “Just with the two of us.”