Actress Naya Rivera has been missing for over a day after she took a boating trip with her son, according to the Fillmore Police Department.
Rivera, 33, rented a pontoon boat on Ventura County’s Lake Piru on Wednesday (July 8), taking her 4-year-old son Josey Hollis Dorsey, her son with ex-husband Ryan Dorsey, with her. When her three-hour rental became overdue, employees at the lake found her son with a life vest on sleeping on the boat. An adult life vest was found on the boat. However, Rivera was nowhere to be found. A search was conducted throughout the day to no avail.
“The missing person at Lake Puru has been identified as Naya Rivera, 33, of Los Angeles,” a tweet read from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department. “SAR operation will continue at first light.”
Rivera’s son reported to police that he saw his mother jump off the boat and never return. At the moment, no foul play is suspected, but the incident is being summed up as an accident by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.
Rivera last posted on her Instagram profile a photo of her hugging her son. She captioned the photo, “Just the two of us.”
Rivera’s acting credits include American Dad, Devious Maids, CSI: Miami, The Bernie Mac Show, Soul Food, and The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. Rivera was infamously a part of the Ryan Murphy creation Glee from 2009 to 2015.
At the height of her career, she dated rapper Big Sean. The couple announced they were engaged in 2013, but broke up in 2014 after Big Sean allegedly cheated on the actress with Ariana Grande, which he vehemently denies. The rapper would go on to make the song “I Don’t F*** With You” and “No More Interviews” to memorialize his relationship with the Devious Maids actress.
Soon, Rivera would move on to Ryan Dorsey, marrying him on the same day she was supposed to marry Big Sean. She would give birth to her son in September 2015. After four years of marriage, the couple would divorce in 2018.
The Glee cast has been haunted by what appears to be a “curse”. In 2013, lead actor Cory Monteith, who played Finn Hudson on the show, died at the age of 31 in a Canadian hotel room after an alleged drug overdose. In January 2018, Glee actor Mark Sailing allegedly committed suicide after being accused of having child pornography on his computer.
Just recently, lead actress Lea Michele was accused by several actors of being a bully while on the set. Now, Rivera is being presumed dead, leaving behind her only child.
