Now Naya's father, George Rivera, claims she FaceTimed him from the boat and he begged her not to go swimming...
From People Magazine,
"She would always bounce stuff off me," George, 64, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview for this week's issue. "And she wanted to go swimming with Josey out in the middle of the lake."
But when his eldest daughter informed him that the boat didn't have an anchor, George - who was taking a break from remodeling his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, when the call came through - instantly realized that jumping into the lake for a swim was a bad idea.
"I could see that the wind was blowing and my stomach was just cringing," recalls George, an avid boater. "I kept telling her, 'Don't get out of the boat! Don't get out of the boat! It will drift away when you're in the water.'"
After about three minutes, their FaceTime call cut out. "It was just heartbreaking," says George, who was left staring at the screenshot he snapped of his daughter in sunglasses and a baseball cap, grinning beneath the boat's canopy with a bright blue sky overhead.
"I had this bad feeling that was just killing me," he remembers.
