Rivera was the third member of the cast the series Glee, who died at a young age. It is not so surprising that the word curse has started to be used in connection with this program. There was one more thing. Her remains were found on the anniversary of the death of her good friend and Glee co-star Cory Monteith.
Naya Marie Rivera was born on January 12, 1987 in Valencia, California. She was the eldest of three siblings. Younger brother Mychal played in the NFL for the Oakland Raiders and Jacksonville Jaguars, younger sister Nickayla pursued a career as a model. Naya found herself again in acting, singing and modeling. She has won many awards throughout her career, including the Screen Actors Guild. She was too twice nominated for a Grammy Award.
Her career in the entertainment industry started quite early. She landed her first role at the age of four, playing Hillary Winston in the CBS sitcom The Royal Family. A year later, she was nominated for a Young Artist Award. During her teenage years, she appeared in other series. But she took her to real fame the role of popular cheerleader Santana Lopez in Glee, where she worked in 2009-2015. And she thrived in private as well. She had a son, Josey Hollis Dorsey, who was born on September 17, 2015. After the divorce, she took turns caring for him with her husband.
It wasn’t Naya’s first time at Lake Piru. On that fateful day, she arrived with her son around three o’clock. She rented a pontoon boat and set sail. She was due back at the dock three hours later. When this did not happen, the employees of the rental company went to look for them. They managed to track down the ship. She was sailing, not anchored. On board little Josey slept wrapped in a towel and wearing a life jacket. But his mother was not there. All that was left of her was her vest.
Josey later told his grandmother that they swam in the lake for a while, then she told him to get back on the boat. At the last moment she helped him climb aboard, then began wave your hands and call for help. Groups of police and divers began searching for Naya. After less than a week, they picked up her body ashore.
The medical examiner found in the actress’s body the presence of caffeine, a therapeutic level of appetite suppressant phentermine and a low level of amphetamine, diazepam, which treats anxiety, and a negligible amount of alcohol. Nothing from this should not have contributed to the drowning.
A possible cause could be dizziness, which the actress suffered from for a long time. Or they could have been carried away from the unmoored ship by the so-called rip current, which is created by strong winds. Either way, the case was closed as an accidental drowning. After her death, her castmates paid tribute to her, the show’s creators even set up a college fund for Josey. So it was really an unfortunate accident when the actress drowned as a result of exhaustion, or here really the mysterious curse worked?
Sources of information:
Wikipedia.org: Naya Rivera
allthatinteresting.com: The Heartbreaking Death Of Naya Rivera, The Beloved Glee Star Who Drowned At Age 33
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