‘Glee’ ‘s Heather Morris Admits ‘Today Is Hard’ as She Marks Late Costar Naya Rivera’s 36th Birthday
Sarah Richards
Published Dec 29, 2025
Heather Morris keeps on having late Happiness costar Naya Rivera at the forefront of her thoughts.
On her Instagram Story Thursday, Morris, 35, stood up out of appreciation for what might have been Rivera’s 36th birthday celebration.
“Cheerful birthday bebe,” the artist started. “Today is hard. Missing you regular, yet today particularly.” Morris isn’t the main one to share a public recognition for Rivera on Thursday. The late entertainer’s ex, Ryan Dorsey, posted a merry go round of photographs of the entertainer with the pair’s 7-year-old child, Josey Hollis, close by a grievous inscription.
“Somewhat simpler with every tad of time that elapses by to take a gander at pictures … yet I actually don’t have the solutions to the inquiries to the why’s our sweet kid asks occasionally.
I never will,” he composed. “Doing all that can be expected.” The 39-year-old Big Sky entertainer proceeded, “🕊️🦋Fly high 🦋🕊️ Assuming you’re perusing this regardless of what you’re going through, pause for a minute of appreciation that you’re still here on this ride. I realize a few days are more diligently than others to get up, yet keep we just need to continue to push forward. 🫶.”
Rivera died out of nowhere in July 2020 at age 33. She had been accounted for missing in the wake of setting out on a sailing trip with her child, who was 4, at that point, at Lake Piru in Ventura Province, California. Her body was found in the water after specialists led a days-in length search exertion.
Glee’s Heather Morris Admits ‘Today Is Hard’ as She Marks Late Costar Naya Rivera’s 36th Birthday
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A few Happiness cast individuals, including Morris, Golden Riley and Kevin McHale, accumulated at Lake Piru around that opportunity to show their help. A post-mortem later resolved Rivera’s reason for death to be an incidental suffocating, and specialists established that she probably saved Josey by returning him on board the boat before she died. She was let go on July 24, 2020.
This previous summer, previous stars of the Fox melodic series honored Rivera on the two-year commemoration of her passing, including Morris.
At that point, Morris posted senseless photographs of the pair and expressed: “Regular my holy messenger. I miss you each damn day.”
Morris likewise considered their companionship while showing up on a new episode of the And That is The thing You Truly Missed digital recording, facilitated by her previous costars McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz, and uncovered that Rivera defied her about her dietary problem while on the Merriment show visit.
“I can’t recollect precisely exact thing she was saying, yet she was moving toward me about my dietary problem since I know she, at the end of the day, had dietary problems, and she was exceptionally open about it in her book. So she obviously was quick to shout out about it,” made sense of Morris.
“That is what her identity was. She was simply consistently prepared to discuss it,” Morris added.