Search underway for ex-Glee star

LOS ANGELES — Authorities were searching a Southern California lake Thursday for Glee star Naya Rivera a day after her fouryear-old son was found alone on a rented boat.

More than 80 people using helicopters, drones, and all-terrain vehicles, including divers, were involved in the search, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said. The search began Wednesday and was suspended overnight, but resumed Thursday morning on Lake Piru, 90 kilometres northwest of Los Angeles in the Los Padres National Forest.

Rivera rented a pontoon boat at about 1 p.m. Wednesday, and planned to go swimming with the little boy in the reservoir’s recreation area, authorities said. Another boater found her son on the north end of the lake asleep on the boat and wearing a life vest.

Rivera’s identification was found on the boat and her vehicle was found in a parking area, authorities said. The boy was safe and healthy and with family members.

Rivera’s son is from a marriage with actor Ryan Dorsey. The couple finalized their divorce in June 2018 after nearly four years of marriage.

Rivera played Santana Lopez, a singing 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 in 2018 at age 35 after pleading guilty to child pornography charges.

Victoria-raised actor Cory Monteith, one of the show’s leads, died at 31 in a Vancouver hotel in 2013 from a toxic mix of alcohol and heroin.