Ryan Dorsey is honoring Naya Rivera on his late ex-wife’s birthday.
Early in the summer of 2020, Naya Rivera’s tragic death had countless fans grieving.
No one felt that loss more acutely than her own loved ones, including her ex-husband and her son.
Dorsey has now posted a tribute to her, promising that he’s doing the best that he can for their son.
Ryan Dorsey is honoring Naya Rivera
Sunday, January 12 was Naya Rivera’s birthday. She would have been 38 years old.
As a tribute to his late ex, whom he married in 2014 and divorced in 2018, Ryan Dorsey took to Instagram to share a poem to wish Naya a “Happy Heavenly Birthday.”
“5 birthdays since you’ve been gone,” Dorsey began. “Thoughts every day about how it went wrong.”
“The memories attached to places, Still see all the things, see all our faces,” Ryan Dorsey continued his poem.
“Visions of happiness and sadness, 15 years flash by when I hear a certain song,” he wrote.
Dorsey continued: “I shake my head often still in disbelief, They say time heals all, but all is not grief.”
Ryan Dorsey is not the only one who misses Naya Rivera
Dorsey went on to tell Naya Rivera that he is “doing the best I can for our JoJo Binx.”
That refers to their son, Josey Hollis Dorsey, whom they welcomed in September of 2015.
“As the time goes by, I’m often alone and sit and think,” he added. “I think more of our better times, Like this picture from the past, but it still f–king stings.”
“So give [dogs] Emmy and Lucy one good rub,” Dorsey concluded. “And if you’re reading this, Be kind to the one’s you love, You’ll never know when you give your last hug.”
That is very good advice. Anyone who has suddenly lost a loved one — including an ex — can tell you that they’ll always remember how abruptly a life can end.
In Rivera’s case, she rented a boat and took 4-year-old Josey out on California’s Lake Piru. Staff eventually found the boat on the north side of the lake, with Josey asleep and wearing a life jacket. He was alone.
What happened was a tragedy and remains a bit of a mystery
Obviously, everyone knew that Naya Rivera would not have simply gone to do something else while her four-year-old slept on a boat alone. This was an emergency situation, and she became an official missing person. A search began.
Five days later, on July 13, searchers found her body. The autopsy concluded that she had died from an accidental drowning.
No one knows what happened. However, one likely explanation is that she died saving Josey — putting him back onto the boat before drowning.