“Live Forever”: Naya Rivera’s 9-Year-Old Son, Josey, Watches Her Old “Glee” Performances After Her Tragic 2020 Death
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Josey’s dad, Ryan Dorsey, also opened up about how important it was for him to maintain a “really close” relationship with Naya’s family after he and Josey moved away from LA.
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At the time, the incident report on Naya’s death concluded that she had exhausted herself getting Josey back onboard, and he was found alone on the boat sometime later.
A search-and-rescue team looked for Naya for five days before her body was discovered, and after her funeral, Ryan took Josey back to his home state of West Virginia to escape the paparazzi.
Afterward, Naya’s sister Nickayla moved in with them for a year to help take care of her nephew, who, Ryan revealed, still carries a tremendous amount of guilt over his mom’s death.
“Something he’s said over and over is that he was trying 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,” Ryan added. “I keep reassuring him, ‘Buddy, that rope wasn’t going to be long enough.’ That obviously still sticks out in his head because he feels like he could have saved her. I think she just got caught up in a brush — that or a weird undercurrent from the dam. It was just a freak occurrence."
However, Ryan went on to add that he personally struggles to watch Naya’s work, saying: “Pictures are hard enough. I can’t just sit there and watch her sing, it’s hard for me.”
"Sometimes they're happy reminders but a lot of times, even if it's happy, the reality is it's a lot of what could've been, what should've been," he said of his memories of Naya. "A lot of second-guessing everything and wondering how things might've played out if the tiniest decision we make really changes the course of events of life."
"I love her family so much: her dad, her mom, her sister, her brother, we all get along so good and we're all still close," he said. "We're, obviously, even closer now, and we stay at grandma's. He's really close to both sides of his family, and we make sure of that."
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