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NAYA RIVERA 'I TRIED TO SAVE MUM'

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March 3, 2025

THE LATE GLEE STAR’S SON WAS JUST 4 YEARS OLD WHEN TRAGEDY STRUCK

NAYA RIVERA 'I TRIED TO SAVE MUM'

Actor Ryan Dorsey was in a supermarket on July 8, 2020, when he received a phone call informing him that his ex-wife, actress Naya Rivera, was missing. Their son, 4-year-old Josey, had been found alone and asleep in a rental pontoon boat floating on Lake Piru, Ventura County, California. “I drove 100-and-something the whole way with my four-way hazards on, chain-smoking cigarettes – and I don’t even smoke, really – and just crying,” he recalled in an interview with People magazine. “I just wanted to get to Josey.”

In the interview, Dorsey also revealed more of what their son, now 9, has said about what he remembers from the day his mother, who audiences had come to know through her role as feisty cheerleader Santana on

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