Glee actor Naya Rivera missing after boat trip with four-year-old son; search operation underway

Actor Naya Rivera who gained popularity for the show Glee is missing after her four-year-old son was found along in a boat on a lake in Southern California.According BBC, Ventura County Sherrif's office has said that the 33-year-old actor rented the boat on Wednesday afternoon at Lake Piru, north-west of Los Angeles.A boat and helicopter search operation was undertaken, but suspended by nighttime. In a social media post, they added that the search would continue once again at dawn on Thursday.[caption id="attachment_8577621" align="alignnone" width="825"]

Naya Rivera. Image from Twitter[/caption]TMZ states that her son told the police Rivera had jumped in the water and did not come back.Here is the update from the Sherrif's office

Rivera’s son is from a marriage with actor Ryan Dorsey. The couple finalised their divorce in June 2018 after nearly four years of marriage.She called her young son “my greatest success, and I will never do any better than him” in her 2016 memoir Sorry Not Sorry.

The actress was engaged to rapper Big Sean in 2013, but their relationship ended a year later. The pair met on Twitter and collaborated musically, with the rapper appearing on Rivera’s debut single 'Sorry.'

Rivera played Santana, a cheerleader in the musical-comedy Glee that aired on Fox from 2009 until 2015. She appeared in 113 episodes of the series and dated co-star Mark Salling, who killed himself inf 2018 after pleading guilty to child pornography charges.

(With inputs from The Associated Press)