While it’s been a decade since the cast of Glee last performed together, it’s clear many of them still have love for each other.
Actor turned author Chris Colfer, who played Kurt Hummel on the Fox series, shared just how they remain in each others’ corners.
While on the red carpet at Elton John’s AIDS Foundation Oscar Party on Sunday, March 2, Colfer talked about how he and other Glee cast members are keeping Naya Rivera’s memory alive.
Colfer told Parade that his costar Jenna Ushkowitz, who played Tina Cohen-Chang, “did this really beautiful thing where she created an email address for” Rivera’s 9-year-old son, Josey.
The point of the email is “so we could all send him stories about his mom,” Colfer, 34, explained to Parade. “I’m getting emotional thinking [about] how she was just the greatest.”
Rivera died in July 2020 after renting a boat to sail on Lake Piru with her then-4-year-old son.
In a recent interview with People, Josey’s father, Ryan Dorsey, recalled one of the last conversations Josey and Rivera had before they jumped off the boat to swim in the water.
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Josey told his dad that, “We jump in and I said, ‘Are we sure about this?’ She’s like, ‘Yeah.’ He’s like, ‘Oh, my God, are we going to die?’ And Mommy said, ‘Don’t be silly.’ He said, ‘And we jumped in and that’s what happened.’”
“He said that the last thing she said was his name, and then she went under, and he didn’t see her anymore,” Dorsey continued. “It just rocks my world that he had to witness her last moments.”
Dorsey added in that same interview that Josey still struggles with the memory of that day.
“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,” Dorsey told People. “I keep reassuring him, ‘Buddy, that rope wasn’t going to be long enough.’”
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In his op-ed for Variety remembering Rivera after her death, Colfer called Rivera so talented that he found himself “wondering if Naya was even real or if she was just a dream all along.”
“How could a human being be that talented, that hilarious and that beautiful at once?” he wrote. “How could one person be responsible for so much joy and be the subject of so many wonderful memories?”
