{"id":769543,"date":"2026-06-29T20:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769543\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:13:09","slug":"the-ring-star-daveigh-chases-official-cause-of-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769543\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Ring’ Star Daveigh Chase’s Official Cause of Death Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daveigh Chase
\n Cause of Death Revealed<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n June 29, 2026
\n 11:04 AM PDT
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\n Updated
\n June 29, 2026
\n 12:37 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Daveigh Chase<\/a>‘s official cause of death has been revealed … and the former child star died from AIDS … TMZ has confirmed.<\/p>\n

The L.A. County Medical Examiner says the primary cause of death was acquired immunodeficiency syndrome\u00a0… with chronic polysubstance use — the repeated use of more than one drug over time — listed as a significant condition. The manner of death was ruled natural. Us Weekly<\/a> was first to report on the cause of death.<\/p>\n

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The heartbreaking update comes nearly two weeks after TMZ broke the news that the “Lilo & Stitch” and “The Ring” actress died<\/a> on June 16 at just 35.<\/p>\n

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Immunodeficiency syndrome means your body can\u2019t fight infections … and as we first reported, Daveigh’s boyfriend, Roy Hernandez, initially told us she died from complications related to meningitis and sepsis after spending several days in the hospital.<\/p>\n

TMZ later revealed her friends had spent years desperately trying to track her down<\/a> after she disappeared from the spotlight … even searching Los Angeles’ Skid Row after receiving tips she was living there. We also learned she spent her final years living <\/a>in an RV with Hernandez before she was hospitalized earlier this month.<\/p>\n

We also reported her mother, Cathy Chase, said her daughter’s addiction<\/a> to painkillers began after a motorcycle crash around 2016 … which marked the beginning of a downward spiral.<\/p>\n

The medical examiner’s report now provides the final answers in a story that’s only become more heartbreaking since Daveigh’s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daveigh Chase Cause of Death Revealed Published June 29, 2026 11:04 AM PDT | Updated June 29, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-769543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}