Naya Rivera’s Ex Ryan Dorsey Says They Have been Contemplating Child No. 2

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Naya Rivera and her ex-husband, Ryan Dorsey, had thought-about increasing their household after their divorce however earlier than her sudden demise.
“We went forwards and backwards taking part in home,” Dorsey, 41, informed Folks in an interview revealed on Saturday, February 15. “We had been going to attempt to have one other child and all of the issues.”
He added, “We went to Maui to take a look at locations and get a contemporary begin, after which we fell out once more…If I knew what I do know now, I might’ve tried to do issues otherwise to make it work.”
Dorsey and Rivera, greatest identified for her function as Santana Lopez on Glee, had been married from 2014 to 2018. They welcomed their solely little one collectively, son Josey, in September 2015. Two years after Dorsey and Rivera divorced, she died by drowning in July 2020 on the age of 33.
“I want it could’ve labored out,” Dorsey informed Folks. “I want we may have labored every thing out, had just a few children, lived fortunately ever after. However that’s not the way in which life works for everyone.”
Since Rivera’s passing, Dorsey has stayed targeted on elevating Josey as a single father.
“I’m making an attempt to be the perfect father or mother that I could be and lift a superb little man,” he informed the outlet. “He offers me a purpose to maintain going with my life.”
Ryan Dorsey and Josey Dorsey Courtesy of Ryan Dorsey/Instagram
Dorsey, who just lately moved his household out of Los Angeles again to his native West Virginia, had stopped relationship within the years following Rivera’s demise.
“I haven’t had any girlfriends actually,” he defined to Folks. “Clearly, [raising Josey is] a full-time job and profession is a full-time job, and then you definitely obtained to do issues for your self, so there’s not a lot time to exit and attempt to meet somebody.”
Finally, the Tracker actor realized he didn’t wish to elevate Josey, now 9, “on my own” and began to place himself again on the market.
“The laborious half about being a single father or mother is you don’t have that coparent scenario that will help you make selections, like what college he’s going to go to, which sports activities to play,” Dorsey mentioned. “Grandma is his mother’s mother and Grammy is my mother, and Grandma and Grammy have their enter, however finally every thing is as much as me now.”
In accordance with Folks, Dorsey’s new love curiosity — who has not been publicly recognized — additionally lives on the East Coast.
“It’s somebody that retains me formidable and impressed and off the [dating] apps,” Dorsey teased. “It’s been a very long time since I met any individual that I’m like, ‘Let me attempt to give this an actual shot.’ So, we’ll see what occurs. I’m taking it someday at a time.”
Dorsey additionally joked that Josey has been saying for years that “he desires a brother and a stepmom.”