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Actress Naya Rivera is reportedly missing after California authorities found her 4-year-old son alone on a boat on Wednesday.
The 33-year-old Glee star was not on the boat when authorities discovered her son, Josey, sleeping adrift the craft in Lake Piru in Ventura County just before 5 p.m. PT, according to TMZ. The young boy was reportedly wearing a life jacket. Another adult life jacket was also found on the boat.
A search and rescue dive team searched the lake after they were unable to locate Rivera. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office tweeted that they were searching for a possible drowning victim.
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Law enforcement said Josey told authorities that he and his mother were swimming in the water but Rivera never came back into the pontoon boat, CBS LA reported. A team of divers stopped searching due to nightfall but is expected to resume on Thursday by sunrise.
“SAR operation will continue at first light,” the Ventura County Sheriff’s office tweeted Wednesday evening.
Authorities reportedly found Rivera’s Black SUV parked near the boat rental with her purse inside.
Just a day before her disappearance, Rivera had shared a picture of her kissing her young son with the caption: “Just the two of us.”
It was her last post to social media.
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Rivera quickly became a trending topic late Wednesday on the west coast as many offered their prayers for her safety. Others on Twitter were quick to admonish those who began posting “RIP” messages to their timelines without any confirmation on the state of her welfare.
“Praying for Naya Rivera. I hope she’s ok,” tweeted fellow Hollywood actress Tika Sumpter.
“Prayers up for the lovely Naya Rivera,” tweeted actress Jackée Harry, who shared a throwback TV clip of her and a young Rivera. “We starred alongside one another in her first very television series, The Royal Family, and I’ve watched her career blossom ever since. Please God, don’t cut this life short.”
Rivera shares custody of her son with actor Ryan Dorsey, whom she divorced in 2018.
The former child actress is best known for her role as the high school cheerleader Santana Lopez in the Fox network’s musical TV drama Glee. Rivera starred on the show for six seasons from 2009-2015.
The cast of Glee has seen is share of tragedy. Actor Cory Monteith died at 31 of a drug overdose in 2013, and Mark Schilling died in an apparent suicide in 2018 after pleading guilty to federal charges of being in possession of child pornography.
This story is still developing.
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