Naya Rivera's mother and sister remember actress one year after her death

Naya Rivera’s family is reeling with grief one year after the “Glee” star’s tragic death.

"Sometimes we’re afraid of the sorrow being so heavy that we’re afraid for our own self, ’cause this is hard," she said in the interview, which aired Thursday, adding that the family is in therapy to deal with the trauma. Previtire said she feels her late daughter’s "energy" telling her to be happy and have fun with her grandson, yet, "I literally wake up every morning, and it’s almost like a restart button, and I have to shake it off … one foot at a time. And here we are." Rivera, who played Santana Lopez on the hit series "Glee," went missing on July 8, 2020, during a boating trip with her young son on Southern California’s Lake Piru. A days-long search for the actress ended on July 13 when her body was found and she was confirmed dead — a period Naya’s younger sister, Nickayla Rivera, called "absolute hell."