Just turned 35 years old
Updated 08.52 | Published 08.34
Daveigh Chase died as a result of AIDS.
This is now confirmed by the coroners, at the same time as it is also established that chronic drug abuse also contributed to the child star’s death.
The American actor Daveigh Chaseknown for her starring role as the black-haired girl Samara Morgan in the horror film “The ring” and for voicing Lilo “Lilo and Stitch” and Chihiro Ogino in “Spirited away”, died in mid-June. only 35 years old.
Now, the Los Angeles medical examiner has stated in a report that her cause of death was AIDS, with other significant contributing factors, including chronic drug abuse, writes People.
She died at a Los Angeles hospital, and her boyfriend told TMZ at the time that she had suffered from meningitis and “several serious blood infections.”
Even before she died, the boyfriend started a fundraiser, where he wrote that her condition was critical. After her death, Daveigh urged Chase’s former manager and longtime friend John Ryan people not to donate money to the boyfriend’s fundraiser, saying the money will not go towards any expenses for Daveigh.
“I, her father, her uncle and we close friends who have known her for decades urge everyone not to donate to this fundraiser. This man, who is making these claims, took her to the hospital in a terrible condition and did not inform anyone in the family until after she had passed away so that he himself could control the image of what has happened,” he said in a statement to Deadline.
After a successful career as a child star, Daveigh Chase retired from the limelight. She made her last appearance on the red carpet in 2013, writes People.
The actor had a serious drug addiction and lived on Skid Row in Los Angeles, an area notorious for its homeless population and problems with poverty, mental illness and substance abuse.
