Naya Rivera’s Step Up: High Water cast mates Ne-Yo and Terrence Green have honored the late star on social media, after police confirmed that a body pulled from Lake Piru on Monday is indeed the 33-year-old actress just six days after she vanished.
The actors both shared a video of Rivera singing Amazing Grace on the Youtube series.
Ne-Yo, Green were regulars while Rivera was in a recurring role in the first two seasons of the show, starting in 2018.
Grace: Naya Rivera’s Step Up: High Water cast mates Ne-Yo and Terrence Green honored the late star on social media, after police confirmed that a body pulled from Lake Piru on Monday is indeed the 33-year-old actress just six days after she vanished
The clip takes place during a funeral scene, as Rivera stands with Green in front of the crowd of mourners.
Unprompted, Rivera breaks into singing Amazing Grace, as the church chorus joins in from behind her.
The scene was from the most recent second season of the show, which originally aired on Youtube before being cancelled, and picked up for a third season by Starz.
Green, shared the video to Twitter on Sunday, simply captioning it with ‘#NayaRivera’ and, broken heart and dove emojis.
Heartbroken: Green, shared the video to Twitter on Sunday, simply captioning it with ‘#NayaRivera’ and, broken heart and dove emojis
Pitch perfect: The clip takes place during a funeral scene, as Rivera stands with Green in front of the crowd of mourners. Unprompted, Rivera breaks into singing Amazing Grace, as the church chorus joins in from behind her
Co-stars: Ne-Yo, Green were regulars while Rivera was in a recurring role in the first two seasons of the show, starting in 2018
While Ne-Yo shared it to his Instagram stories and also used a dove emoji as a caption.
The singer went on to share a solo photo of Naya, writing ‘Goodbye mama, we’ll miss you. And we’ll never forget you.’
Green also seemed to go to Lake Piru after Rivera’s body was confirmed to have been found, as he shared a video placing his hand in the water.
On Sunday, for his birthday, Green shared a selfie with Rivera and wrote ‘my only bday wish is to find #NayaRivera.’
Touch: Green also seemed to go to Lake Piru after Rivera’s body was confirmed to have been found, as he shared a video placing his hand in the water
Peace: While Ne-Yo shared it to his Instagram stories and also used a dove emoji as a caption
High Water centered on Rivera as Collette Jones, opposite Ne-Yo’s Sage Odom, as they were partners at Atlanta’s High Water Performing Arts High School.
The third season ‘had not yet been determined prior to COVID,’ according to TheWrap, though Collette and Sage were ‘mapped out to see that relationship challenge and the couple faces criminal charges, financial ruin and powerful political enemies.’
Other celebs, including her Glee co-stars Chris Coelfer and Jane Lynch, paid tribute including Pretty Little Liars star Janel Parrish who wrote: ‘Rest In Peace and power, Naya [sad face and broken heart emojis]’
The Ventura County Sheriff Twitter announced the grim discovery on Twitter, saying: ‘A body has been found at Lake Piru this morning.
Unknown: High Water centered on Rivera as Collette Jones, opposite Ne-Yo’s Sage Odom, as they were partners at Atlanta’s High Water Performing Arts High School. The third season ‘had not yet been determined prior to COVID,’ according to TheWrap , though Collette and Sage were ‘mapped out to see that relationship challenge and the couple faces criminal charges, financial ruin and powerful political enemies’
Goodbye: The singer went on to share a solo photo of Naya, writing ‘Goodbye mama, we’ll miss you. And we’ll never forget you.’
‘The recovery is in progress.’
Rivera vanished on Wednesday on Lake Piru after taking a pontoon boat out on the water with her four-year-old son Josey.
Josey was later found alone, sleeping on the boat, by another group who noticed it drifting.
Paying tribute: Kristin Chenweth paid tribute to Naya with a photo of the star and her son, along with the caption, ‘Thank you for what you gave the world. I love you’
Search and rescue teams have spent the last six days combing the lake for traces of the actress but struggled against poor visibility and the sheer size of the lake.
On Monday, they honed in on a cove where the actress had taken a photograph of Josey and sent it to a relative 90 minutes before he was found on the boat.
They focused their search on that cove on Monday.
The actress grew up 20 miles from the lake and was familiar with it, police sources said last week.
The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office released CCTV footage showing Naya Rivera and her four-year-old son arriving at the dock on Lake Piru on Wednesday
She thought of it as her ‘sanctuary’, despite it being known for rip currents and icy waters that can overpower swimmers.
On Sunday, Naya’s distraught family were seen at the lake trying to assist investigators in their search for her.
Josey told police that his mother ‘jumped in’ and never came back up to the surface.
He was wearing a life jacket but the actress’s was on the pontoon when it was recovered.
‘There was a picture sent to a family member that showed the boy on the boat by a cove. We found where that cove was,’ Robert Inglis of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue Team told Us Weekly.
This diagram shows where Naya Rivera and her son rented a boat on Lake Piru before the four-year-old was seen alone. The map in the top left shows the location of the lake in relation to Los Angeles where Rivera lives
He previously said: ‘What I suspect is that the winds kicked up.
‘Those pontoon boats are very light, and when you push them, it can get away from you. She might’ve tried to swim after the boat. But that’s all speculation. Once we do locate her, that’ll answer a lot more questions.’
Police have not shared the image and it’s unclear which cove it was taken in. Over the weekend, they asked members of the public not to go looking for the star themselves in the dangerous water.
The actress’s father George on Sunday appeared to help co-ordinate the hunt for his missing daughter after police confirmed ‘nothing came’ of their search of cabins along Lake Piru.