A cause of death has been revealed for 35-year-old former child actor Daveigh Chase, known for her roles in “Lilo & Stitch” and “The Ring.”<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner indicated Chase’s cause of death was acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS<\/a>) with chronic polysubstance use, taking more than one drug at the same time, listed under other significant conditions.<\/p>\n Chase died June 16<\/a> at a hospital, her father said in a text message to NBC News<\/a>. Chase, who starred in Disney\u2019s hit movie “Lilo & Stitch” in 2002 as the voice of Lilo, had been homeless and living in Los Angeles near the hospital, her father said.<\/p>\n Chase also had roles in the TV adaptation of the film from 2003 to 2006.<\/p>\n She also had roles in “ER,” “Charmed,” “The Practice” and “Sabrina the Teenage Witch.”<\/p>\n In 2002’s horror film “The Ring” about a cursed VHS tape, Chase portrayed the child ghost Samara. She won a MTV Movie Award for Best Villain and reprised the role in 2005’s “The Ring Two.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cause of death has been revealed for 35-year-old former child actor Daveigh Chase, known for her roles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5452,4845,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-380259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-actors","tag-celebrity-news","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}