Naya Rivera’s Son Feels Guilt Over Her Death As He Was Too Afraid Of A Spider To Throw Her A Rope, Age 4 – BuzzFeed

The best of the internet, delivered straight to your inbox!“Glee” star Naya tragically died during a boating trip with her son, Josey, now 9, in 2020.BuzzFeed StaffThe incident report on her death concluded that Naya drowned after she exhausted herself getting Josey to safety, and the little boy was found alone on the boat sometime later. Naya told Josey to swim back to the rented boat — which did not have an anchor or any flotation devices — once she realized that it was floating away. Josey remembers grabbing “the tanks” and pulling himself “around the boat.”“He said that the last thing she said was his name, and then she went under, and he didn’t see her anymore,” Ryan told the publication. “It just rocks my world that he had to witness her last moments.”“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 explained.“I keep reassuring him, ‘Buddy, that rope wasn’t going to be long enough,’” he went on. “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.”Ryan recalled collapsing “into a pallet of drinks” at the news of her disappearance before speeding the 145 miles to Lake Piru. He noted: “I just wanted to get to Josey.”“If we’d have lost both Naya and Josey, I don’t know how I would continue on with my life,” Ryan added. “I don’t know what I would’ve done, but I’m sure it wouldn’t have been good.”Nearly five years on, and Ryan understandably still struggles to help Josey make sense of his mom’s death.“It’s hard trying to explain things that you can’t really make sense of no matter what age you are,” he told People. “I’m not a big believer in everything happens for a reason because I can’t ever think of a reason why he doesn’t have his mom.”Ryan concluded: “You can only give him a hug and tell him: ‘I know, life is not fair. Bad things happen and there’s no reason for it, and you just have to do your best to be a good person.’”

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