Dorsey says the couple’s 9-year-old son still “feels like he could have saved her.”
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Ryan Dorsey is ready to speak about thesudden deathof his ex-wife,Naya Rivera.
“I instantly said, ‘What do you mean?
Ryan Dorsey and Naya Rivera.Credit:Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
She knows how to swim,'” Dorsey recalled in a candid new interview withPEOPLE.
I collapsed into a pallet of drinks.
I didn’t know what to think, but I feared the worst."
Naya Rivera and Ryan Dorsey.Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
“I just wanted to get to Josey.”
“There was a fear: ‘What if we dont find her?’
It was just awful.”
Naya Rivera and her son, Josey, in 2019.Gregg DeGuire/Getty
“It just rocks my world that he had to witness her last moments.”
I keep reassuring him, ‘Buddy, that rope wasn’t going to be long enough.'"
“But on the other hand, I think maybe something bad could have happened to both of us.
I don’t know.”
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Dorsey married Rivera in 2014, and they welcomed their son the following year.
The couple ultimately went their separate ways in 2018, with Rivera again filing for divorce.
“There’s just so much that happened.”
He does see pieces of Rivera in Josey.
“He likes to talk, and that’s mama for sure.”
