Gloria Estefan is opening up about the death of her co-star, Naya Rivera. Rivera died in a boating accident in California in July.Estefan played Maribel Lopez, the mother of Naya's character, Santana Lopez, on the hit Fox musical comedy.“It was a brutal loss,” Estefan told ET’s Nischelle Turner while promoting her new album,. “She was the nicest, warmest person.
A lovely girl [and] triple threat. I send a lot of prayers out to that family.”“What's an interesting thing, too, that I thought about later — I played her mother and [her character] came out in that show.
And then, without even knowing [it] … that was going to be also me [in real life],” Estefan added, referring to being a parent to her daughter, Emily, who is a lesbian.Estefan.
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