Dorsey also shared what the 9-year-old remembers from the 33-year-old “Glee” alum’s “last moments” before she drowned in California’s Lake Piru in 2020.

Nearly five years after Naya Rivera’s death, her ex-husband Ryan Dorsey shared how he and their 9-year-old son Josey are keeping her memory alive.

Ryan Dorsey, ex-husband of "Glee" star Naya Rivera is opening up about Rivera's death and raising their son Josey.

Naya Rivera and her ex-husband, Ryan Dorsey, had considered expanding their family after their divorce but before her unexpected death. “We went back and forth playing house,” Dorsey, 41, told People in an interview published on Saturday,

Four months after Rivera’s death, Dorsey filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of his son against Ventura County and Lake Piru’s management. The suit was settled in 2022. He told People that it was “too hard” for him to talk about Rivera’s passing at length over the last four and a half years.

It’s been nearly five years since Glee alum Naya Rivera drowned at Lake Piru in Calif. She was only 33 years old. However, she and her ex-husband Ryan Dorsey’s son Josey lives on, and according to his dad, he’s so much like his mother.

Ryan Dorsey has started dating again five years after the tragic death of his ex-wife, Naya Rivera. “He's been telling me for years that he wants a brother and a stepmom,” Dorsey, 41, told People of son Josey,

Naya Rivera's son, Josey Hollis Dorsey, now nine, is struggling with feelings of guilt over not being able to save his mother