Glee Star Naya Rivera Missing After Swimming Accident, Presumed Dead
The 'Glee' star was reported missing after a trip to Lake Piru in Ventura County, California.
Naya Rivera is missing and presumed dead.
A search is underway for the former Glee actress after her four-year-old son Josey was found alone on a boat on Lake Piru in California on Wednesday (July 8) afternoon.
According to TMZ, Josey — whose father is Rivera's ex-husband Ryan Dorsey — was asleep when he was found in the rented vessel by another boater and later told Ventura County Sherrif's deputies that his mother had gone swimming in the water, but didn't get back up.
Divers immediately started searching the lake, but had found no trace of the actress until the search was suspended at nightfall.
A Ventura County Sheriff's Department confirmed they had deployed air and dive teams to "search for [a] possible drowning victim".
Rivera previously praised her "theatrical" son and predicted he'd follow in her footsteps one day. She said: "He's theatrical in every way. He is definitely a little ham."
And when Rivera brought Josey to the set of Step Up: High Water, he was desperate to join her on camera.
She said: "I was shooting and he was watching me in a scene and before we did the next take he goes, 'I want to go to work with mommy! I want to go to work with you.' I'm like, 'You are at work with me!' He goes, 'no, in there,' like in the scene."— BANG