Disaster Actress Daveigh Chase Dead at 35 - Starred in 'The Ring,' Voiced Lilo in 'Lilo & Stitch'

Actress Daveigh Chase Dead at 35​

By TMZ Staff
Published June 17, 2026 9:53 AM PDT | Updated June 17, 2026 12:27 PM PDT


Daveigh Chase -- the former child actress -- is dead ... TMZ has learned.

The actress' boyfriend, Roy Hernandez, tells TMZ ... Daveigh died Tuesday from meningitis and an infection in her blood, which caused her to have septic issues and led to her body shutting down.



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We're told Daveigh had been admitted to a hospital in Los Angeles earlier this month because of malnutrition.

Daveigh caught her big break in Hollywood early on ... voicing Lilo in the hit Disney film "Lilo & Stitch" back in 2002 and the follow-up TV show. She also voiced Chihiro Ogino in the American dub of "Spirited Away."


Horror movie fans will recognize her from her haunting performance as Samara Morgan ... the main antagonist in the hit 2002 film "The Ring" ... for which she won an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.

Beginning in 2006, Daveigh earned a recurring role in the HBO series "Big Love" ... which follows a fundamentalist, polygamist Mormon family. She played Rhonda Volmer in 32 episodes of the hit show during its five-season run.


Her other credits include ... "Donnie Darko," "Beethoven's 5th," "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," "ER," "Mercy," and more.

Daveigh had numerous run-ins with the law over the years, which we've covered.


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NOVEMBER 2012

THE LAST TIME WE SAW HER
Video: The Last Time We Saw Daveigh Chase
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We last caught up with Daveigh in 2012 ... when we asked her about her makeup habits -- and she told us about her latest project.

Daveigh was 35.

RIP

 

[Rootless Cosmopolitan]

So don't fuck any pasty, inbred people.

I know you are just joking around, but real talk: “straight AIDS” is largely a myth. You can only get AIDS* if you’re getting AIDS blood or AIDS semen into your blood. And even then, one exposure has a low chance of doing it.

IV drug users who catch AIDS are drawing back into the needle to make sure they’ve hit a vein, then passing the same needle to a friend. Do this a couple dozen times with other late-stage junkies and you’ll likely get AIDS.

Gay men who catch AIDS are having hundreds to thousands of men per year ejaculate inside their blown out bleeding assholes.

You’re very unlikely to get AIDS from hemophiliacs unless they’re coming in your torn up ass. And even then, you’d probably have to do it a hundred times or so.

Alternatively, you can be a woman with herpes, syphilis, and gonorrhea or whatever causing huge bloody ulcers in your pussy and then letting a hundred or so AIDS men come inside it.

Normal people basically don’t need to worry about AIDS.

(*yes you pedantic weirdos, I know I’m talking about the virus HIV which causes AIDS)

 

[Obnoxious Asshole]

I know you are just joking around, but real talk: “straight AIDS” is largely a myth. You can only get AIDS* if you’re getting AIDS blood or AIDS semen into your blood. And even then, one exposure has a low chance of doing it.

IV drug users who catch AIDS are drawing back into the needle to make sure they’ve hit a vein, then passing the same needle to a friend. Do this a couple dozen times with other late-stage junkies and you’ll likely get AIDS.

Gay men who catch AIDS are having hundreds to thousands of men per year ejaculate inside their blown out bleeding assholes.

You’re very unlikely to get AIDS from hemophiliacs unless they’re coming in your torn up ass. And even then, you’d probably have to do it a hundred times or so.

Alternatively, you can be a woman with herpes, syphilis, and gonorrhea or whatever causing huge bloody ulcers in your pussy and then letting a hundred or so AIDS men come inside it.

Normal people basically don’t need to worry about AIDS.

(*yes you pedantic weirdos, I know I’m talking about the virus HIV which causes AIDS)

This was back in the 80s and early 90s when there literally was zero testing and the gay cancer was dropping bodies like it had something to prove.

 

[Rootless Cosmopolitan]

This was back in the 80s and early 90s when there literally was zero testing and the gay cancer was dropping bodies like it had something to prove.

What was back in the 1980s? Everything I said was true then and true today. Normies have never been at serious risk of AIDS. Normies getting AIDS is and was always like, struck by lightning rare.

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

What was back in the 1980s? Everything I said was true then and true today. Normies have never been at serious risk of AIDS. Normies getting AIDS is and was always like, struck by lightning rare.

Back in the 1980s they didn't know what AIDS was and they couldn't test for it.

It took years to discover that it was a virus and that it was spread via fluid/fluid contact.

Hemophiliacs got it because they often got blood transfusions and the blood supply wasn't tested.

Ryan White was a sad case. If you don't know who he was, he was a hemophiliac who got AIDS via a blood transfusion, and since people didn't really understand how it was spread, he was treated like a modern-day leper.

In 2026, if you're not a gay, you're not doing needle drugs, and you're not fucking one of those two, your odds are miniscule. And even if you show up poz in 2026, it's not like you need to go get your affairs in order.

In the 1980s, there was a lot of panic over casual contact. No testing, no good meds, even prevention was an open question.

Suck the wrong dick and you way as well go home and die.

Right?

 

[Obnoxious Asshole]

Suck the wrong dick and you way as well go home and die.

And die badly. We're talking crazy ass shit like Cryptospordia meningitis and herpes in the bronchial tubes, never mind taking other shit and making it deadly. "Gay cancer" became a thing because if you got the bug from buttfucking there was a very good chance you would get Kaposi's sarcoma. Until the gay cancer, KS was something only certain Jews got and it just made a purple blot on the skin. With HIV it became lethal. And nobody had figured out yet how it jumped from person to person outside of the four Hs (thanks for the correction). It was a scary time.

 

[Rootless Cosmopolitan]

Back in the 1980s they didn't know what AIDS was and they couldn't test for it.

It took years to discover that it was a virus and that it was spread via fluid/fluid contact.

Hemophiliacs got it because they often got blood transfusions and the blood supply wasn't tested.

Ryan White was a sad case. If you don't know who he was, he was a hemophiliac who got AIDS via a blood transfusion, and since people didn't really understand how it was spread, he was treated like a modern-day leper.

In 2026, if you're not a gay, you're not doing needle drugs, and you're not fucking one of those two, your odds are miniscule. And even if you show up poz in 2026, it's not like you need to go get your affairs in order.

In the 1980s, there was a lot of panic over casual contact. No testing, no good meds, even prevention was an open question.

Suck the wrong dick and you way as well go home and die.

Right?

No, it was clear to scientists very early on how it was spread and the level of difficulty. It had nearly total overlap with Hep B (something like 86%) and they actually used to use the Hep B test as a proxy.

Fauci and the media claimed it was spread more easily to “destigmatize” it or something. It was a hysteria.

 

[General Patton]

I imagine you'll speedrun a death from AIDS when you're undernourished and living among people who have fucking typhus.

Exactly. Skid Row had a Typhus outbreak in 2018. I've seen it in real life and it's horrible. Just an absolute trash pile hellhole. Since I've seen it in person, that's why Daveigh Chase's ending doesn't surprise me at all. That place is filled with trash, drugs, hookers, and used needles. Also rats.

IV drug users who catch AIDS are drawing back into the needle to make sure they’ve hit a vein, then passing the same needle to a friend. Do this a couple dozen times with other late-stage junkies and you’ll likely get AIDS.

To my knowledge, Gia Carangi got HIV from doing Heroin and from shooting up. She was one of the first women to get it.

Hemophiliacs got it because they often got blood transfusions and the blood supply wasn't tested.

Ryan White was a sad case. If you don't know who he was, he was a hemophiliac who got AIDS via a blood transfusion, and since people didn't really understand how it was spread, he was treated like a modern-day leper.

Like I said, I had a family member who got infected by it during one of his many Factor 8 treatments. You were fucked back then if you got a blood transfusion. They never tested it when he'd get the treatment, because it was the mid-80s, and so he got HIV as a kid.

 

[Kharash]

because somebody would have asked how she got it

this whole thing has bugged me more than I expected, I wasn't really into Lilo and Stich but I got gifted that hula girl happy meal toy of Lilo and I still have it around on my work desk because it's a wiggle hula girl but it's Disney so it's quasi-wholesome, but now I just keep staring at it thinking about that clip of Diddy and Ashton Kutcher
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Bothers me more than I thought too. I was roughly around the age of the target demographic when it came out but never saw it at the time. Still sad to see someone who portrayed such an innocent character to get fucked over like this. Seeing the direct results of Hollyjewery is just painful.
There's Lilo and Stitch merch all over book stores and such over here because of the live action remake and now I just have to think about this whenever I see it. Hope everyone involved dies a miserable death.

 

[Dick The Birthday Boy]

This was back in the 80s and early 90s when there literally was zero testing and the gay cancer was dropping bodies like it had something to prove.

Just adding that Kevin Peter Hall, aka The Original Predator in the first two films died due to the lack of testing in the blood. He got into a nasty car accident, was given infected blood, and ended up dying from AIDS pneumonia I think about a year or so later.

The tainting of the blood supply infected so many innocent people. There was another somewhat famous family in the late 80s where all the kids were infected as well due to this.

 

[General Patton]

Bothers me more than I thought too. I was roughly around the age of the target demographic when it came out but never saw it at the time. Still sad to see someone who portrayed such an innocent character to get fucked over like this. Seeing the direct results of Hollyjewery is just painful.
There's Lilo and Stitch merch all over book stores and such over here because of the live action remake and now I just have to think about this whenever I see it. Hope everyone involved dies a miserable death.

It doesn't help that young actresses end up being allowed to go to wild parties where they drink and do drugs.

Look at what happened to Drew Barrymore when she was going to parties before the age of ten or Lindsay Lohan when she'd go to clubs.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I can't believe y'all motherfuckers forgot the classic tasteless joke of the "4-H Club" mnemonic

 

[BobsSpergers]

In one article I read, Daveigh's mother claimed her daughter's drug problems began in 2016 with a motorcycle accident. https://archive.md/ScKUX In another, her father states she's had a problem since she was 13. https://archive.md/rjAb7

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

In one article I read, Daveigh's mother claimed her daughter's drug problems began in 2016 with a motorcycle accident. https://archive.md/ScKUX In another, her father states she's had a problem since she was 13. https://archive.md/rjAb7

up until the crash she had drug solutions

 

[queue-anon]

Hemophiliacs got it because they often got blood transfusions and the blood supply wasn't tested.

IIRC, the platelet infusions they got would combine donations from multiple people. So, hemophiliacs were almost guaranteed to get it back then.

Ryan White was a sad case. If you don't know who he was, he was a hemophiliac who got AIDS via a blood transfusion, and since people didn't really understand how it was spread, he was treated like a modern-day leper.

Medical science knew how it was spread by the time White was diagnosed, but there was a lot of fearmongering among the masses.

 

[SomeDudeInA6PointedStan]

I know you are just joking around, but real talk: “straight AIDS” is largely a myth. You can only get AIDS* if you’re getting AIDS blood or AIDS semen into your blood. And even then, one exposure has a low chance of doing it.

IV drug users who catch AIDS are drawing back into the needle to make sure they’ve hit a vein, then passing the same needle to a friend. Do this a couple dozen times with other late-stage junkies and you’ll likely get AIDS.

Gay men who catch AIDS are having hundreds to thousands of men per year ejaculate inside their blown out bleeding assholes.

You’re very unlikely to get AIDS from hemophiliacs unless they’re coming in your torn up ass. And even then, you’d probably have to do it a hundred times or so.

Alternatively, you can be a woman with herpes, syphilis, and gonorrhea or whatever causing huge bloody ulcers in your pussy and then letting a hundred or so AIDS men come inside it.

Normal people basically don’t need to worry about AIDS.

(*yes you pedantic weirdos, I know I’m talking about the virus HIV which causes AIDS)

Funnily enough one old Chick tract I read had a woman getting HIV from a single sexual encounter with a man who I would say totally didn't look like he was particularly gay'ish or like a heavy drug abuser, and this encounter in the tract definitely had a condom involved as a plot point (For Chick to soapbox about how condoms can't prevent STDs.). Even then when I read the tract years ago I was struck by the utter implausibility of the scenario, now with the knowledge that AIDs is pretty much only consistently spread through extreme ultra-degenerate and most importantly sustained (to an astounding degree) sexual practices can the absurdity of this be fully articulated. Funny how this guy who most definitely did not approve of homosexuality ended up promoting the myth of straight AIDs for entirely different reason then leftists activists. Though partly it was because he was against extramarital sex in general, but honestly I think he just underestimated the depths of the gay/brown/marxoid societal block.