Daveigh Chase shared legacy she hoped to depart behind
Daveigh Chase shared that she needed to vary individuals’s lives, years earlier than her tragic demise at age 35.
“I simply need to make one thing that I really like and other people will respect,” the “Lilo & Sew” voice actress advised Interview journal again in 2009.
“I need to do issues that can change somebody’s life, not one thing they’ll neglect about tomorrow.”
She additionally shared in the course of the transient interview that it was a stroke of dangerous luck that landed her in Hollywood within the first place — her mom had been injured in a automotive accident in 1998 in Los Angeles, and been advised she couldn’t drive for six months.
So as an alternative of returning house to Albany, Oregon after their highway journey, she started pursuing her dream of appearing on the age of 8.
She finally landed roles together with the voice of Lilo in Disney’s beloved animated movie “Lilo & Sew,” the voice of Chihiro in Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning “Spirited Away,” and baby horror villain Samara in “The Ring” reverse Naomi Watts.
She’s additionally appeared in “Donnie Darko” because the sister of Jake Gyllenhaal’s title character, and because the underage spouse of Harry Dean Stanton’s non secular chief in HBO’s “Huge Love.”
A person who recognized himself as Chase’s boyfriend, Roy Hernandez, advised TMZ on Wednesday that the actress handed away on Tuesday on the age of 35 following a bout with meningitis, adopted by sepsis.
The outlet reported that Chase had not too long ago been admitted to a Los Angeles hospital for malnutrition.
Simply previous to the actress’s demise, Hernandez arrange a GoFundMe in her title — although The California Publish reported on Wednesday amid information of her demise that Chase’s longtime supervisor, John Ryan, known as out the transfer.
“Apparently, a person claiming to be her ‘boyfriend’ that none of us associates or her household has heard of has arrange a GoFundMe on ‘her and her households behalf’ that he set her up because the organizer. I can affirm Daveigh has a belief account arrange at SAG to cowl all prices,” Ryan advised The Publish.
The outlet additionally shared photographs from a video from late 2025, to which Ryan was alerted earlier than looking for the actress and get her assist.
The video — which has since been faraway from social media — depicted a frail Chase mendacity on the ground of a trailer or tent on Los Angeles’ notorious Skid Row.
In the meantime, on social media, Chase’s followers took the feedback thread of her closing put up — a pic of Chase posing subsequent to a unicorn balloon shared again in 2017 — to pay their respects.
“RIP lovely lady, you deserved so significantly better, thanks for the nostalgia, your particular phrases & voice, that molded these characters to be one thing so memorable in our lives. You left an imprint on all our hearts, God bless you, soar with the angels 💔🕊️” one individual remarked.
Others shared GIFs from Chase’s best-known roles. One, that includes a picture from “Lilo & Sew,” quoted one of many movie’s most memorable traces. “Ohana means household. Household means no one will get left behind or forgotten.”
