Jones begins with “The Talk” about the cast that joined in Piru Lake the day Rivera’s body was recovered, and how the late Cory Monteith may have helped.
Heather Morris and Naya Rivera They may not have taken many photos together, but the two remained fast friends after playing best friends and eventual spouses on Fox’s success. “Joy” More than six seasons.
Instead, Morris shared photos of his children playing together in a beautiful shared tribute on Wednesday afternoon, “because I know that meant more than anything and they reminded me of you and me.”
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Morris said that through good times and bad, she and Rivera “created the most beautiful friendship built from love and understanding.”
It was a link that would take them to the last days of Rivera, evidenced by Morris’s sincere plea to the authorities to help them in the search for Piru Lake for her friend in the days prior to the recovery of Rivera’s body.
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Morris even shared his latest exchange, tragically disconnected in his own way due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “I had left oranges outside our house for you to drink,” he wrote.
“I wanted to greet you out the window, but my phone didn’t ring when you called (which he never does, fucking T-Mobile), so you and Josey left two succulents at the door as thanks.”
Morris said she planted the succulents left by Rivera and her son, who was found alone on the pontoon that the two had rented the day Rivera disappeared.
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“I look at them every day and I think about you. I still listen to your EP on repeat because from the moment I listened to it, it caught my attention and I always wished that the world knew more about your voice.”
“You are and always will be the strongest and most resilient human being I know, and I promised to take you with me as I continue to live my life,” Morris wrote. She spoke of what she learned through her friendship, the most important being “being a constant and loving friend.”
“You were the first to register, the first to ask questions, the first to listen,” he wrote. “You appreciated our friendship and I never took that for granted.”
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She demonstrated that with fellow cast member Dot-Marie Jones, who spoke to “The Talk” in a segment aired Friday about Rivera as the first member of the “Glee” family to communicate after his wife Bridgett Casteen suffered a stroke. brain for three years. does.
She and Morris joined other cast members in Piru Lake on Monday, where they were caught holding hands on shore and looking out at the calm waters. At that time, a body had been recovered but had not yet been positively identified as Rivera’s.
Jones, who played Coach Bieste on the show, spoke a bit about that powerful experience and said the idea came up during a group text the night before. They originally intended to go that night, but as the hour grew late, they chose to take it to Monday, which would be the day River was found and pronounced dead.
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“I said to Bridgett, my wife, that I just said, ‘I have to go.’ And she said, ‘I know you are,'” Jones recalled. “So, I went out alone, I got there probably around six o’clock, I cried, I prayed and I talked, and you know, I told him that he had to go home, so that we could all rest, and especially his mother and family.”
Jones echoed Kevin McHale’s sentiment that Cory Monteith played some role in Rivera’s body that was found that day. “She had to, because God bless her, they found her on the seventh anniversary of Cory’s death, which is unfathomable,” he said.
She said the plan developed quickly and that it was more of an impulsive decision for the cast, “but it’s life, and unfortunately it affected many of us. And it just shows how much we cared and loved that girl. Rivera was a good boy. We love her. “
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