LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former baby actor Daveigh Chase’s demise on June 16 was resulting from AIDS, the workplace of the County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner reported.
The reason for demise for Chase, 35, was acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, in accordance with on-line health worker information from this week that listed her final identify as Schwallier. “Persistent polysubstance abuse” was listed below “different vital circumstances.”
Chase was recognized for voicing the lead function of Lilo in Disney’s “Lilo & Sew” and her efficiency within the 2002 horror movie “The Ring.”
After her demise in a Los Angeles hospital, her father John David Schwallier, confirmed to The New York Instances that she died from problems of bacterial meningitis and a blood an infection. She was homeless in Los Angeles along with her boyfriend, he stated.
Chase struggled with medicine since she was 13 years previous, Schwallier advised the Instances. He stated his daughter was estranged from her mother and father, who’re divorced.
In a textual content message to The Related Press on Tuesday about AIDS being the reason for demise, her father stated, “I do know along with her life-style that was in all probability the conclusion so I’m not stunned.”
Calling her demise tragic, he added, “It will’ve been good for all of you to seek out her and attempt to assist her that will’ve been a nicer story than this.”
Chase auditioned for Lilo at age 8. For her function because the long-haired Samara in “The Ring,” she received an MTV Film Award for greatest villain.
Chase additionally voiced one other lead within the 2001 animated movie “Spirited Away.” She had roles within the 2001 film “Donnie Darko” and the 2003 present “Oliver Beene,” in accordance with her profile web page on the web film database IMDb.com.
She was born in Las Vegas and raised within the small city of Albany, Oregon. She started singing and dancing at age 3, in accordance with IMDb.
