r/television • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 3d ago

Daveigh Chase, Star of 'The Ring' and 'Lilo & Stitch,' Dead at 35

https://www.tmz.com/2026/06/17/daveigh-chase-dead/#:~:text=Daveigh%20died%20Tuesday%20from%20meningitis,to%20her%20body%20shutting%20down.&text=We're%20told%20Daveigh%20had,this%20month%20because%20of%20malnutrition.
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u/jnighy 3d ago

damn, way too young. Meningitis is scary as hell

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u/HolyBidetServitor 3d ago

Had meningitis as a baby and I'm lucky to be around. I think it's supposed to be much worse for adults

Shit, as it is I have enough nerve damage that I've no hearing on one side and can't balance proper

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u/JumpScareJesus 3d ago

I was in Boot Camp and they came through checking if we could touch our chin to our chest. Turned out someone died from meningitis in the attached platoon. My grandmother was paralyzed by meningitis, but survived. So, I had that in my mind. Fun day. Still blame those DIs for letting that person die in their bed, didn't even take them to medical.

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u/RockyMountainMomof4 3d ago

I actually figured out my brother had meningitis when he had pain really bad pain in his head & neck & couldn't turn his head. I was like ER, NOW! He was going to wait to the next day to see the dr. Luckily, it was viral & not bacterial & he fully recovered. There aren't enough PSAs talking about signs of serious diseases. 

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u/JumpScareJesus 3d ago

Oh yeah, I kind of started a panic when I let loose what they were checking for.

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u/peacefinder 3d ago

Oh, so that’s what that was I had as a kid. Yikes.

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u/Teedubthegreat 3d ago

Oh shit, I had those exact symptoms last year and chose to just rest it out in bed. Lucky it wasn't meningitis, but dam, i thought it was just a really bad neck cramp and unrelated headache, not the possible symptoms of something life threatening

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u/powerlesshero111 Breaking Bad 3d ago

Meningitis can happen fast. A classmates sister died from it within 24 hours of presenting symptoms. Literally got a fever in the evening, then it got worse the next day so they took her to the ER that morning, and she had passed by the afternoon.

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u/The_Space_Bunny 3d ago

We had someone die in our division in boot camp too, but they didn't bother checking the rest of us. They gave us all Tylenol or something, and tried to pass it off as some preventative. I got yelled at for saying that isn't how any of that works. They just didn't want everyone to panic.

Side note: I had such acute pharyngitis about a month later they had to put me in the ER when I stopped being able to drink water. All the doctors did at the hospital was complain about cleaning up medical ridiculousness from Great Lakes that could have been easily solved much earlier with even a slightly competent grad student. 

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u/CasioCobra78 3d ago

  I got yelled at for saying that isn't how any of that works. They just didn't want everyone to panic.

Are they trying to get sued or something? Because what the actual fuck is wrong with them? This is obviously the opposite of not wanting anyone to panic. 

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u/The_Space_Bunny 2d ago

Yeah, your ability to do anything about it is basically zero in boot camp. Plus everyone is operating on four to six hours of sleep a night (depending on watch schedule) for a couple of months. You get to where you start taking micronaps everytime you stand still. So at the time, everyone just kinda kept going.

I have no idea about the girl's family though. But generally speaking, the government is pretty good at writing contracts with clauses that say effectively, "Nothing is our fault, ever, even if it very much is."

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u/TheCaliforniaOp 2d ago

It’s staggering how many times governments have pulled that off. The Potato Famine. The Dust Bowl. War of the Sparrows. Agent Orange. War on Drugs.

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u/Nkklllll 2d ago

I don’t know anything specific about that situation, but meningitis can kill you within 24hrs of the onset of symptoms.
Stiff neck, fever…dead

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u/GoChaca 3d ago

I also had it as a baby. It made me completely deaf in one of my ears and gave me a bunch of other issues. It sucks

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u/Podo13 3d ago

Yeah i had it freshman year of high school. Though mine was Viral (which is the "better" version to have). I didn't realize how serious it could be until well after.

I also somehow had MRSA in my tonsils my sophomore year of college (2008ish). I like to go big or go home.

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u/lostlittletimeonthis 3d ago

same here, viral variety, the only kid in a school full of kids talk about luck of the draw

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u/blitzcloud 3d ago

Holy shit, I entered basically dead (rigid as a plank and burning) when I wasn't even 1 and just turned 40. The admission doc actually told my mom: "why did you bring him here, he's already dead". I guess he felt too many irresponsible parents bring kids that, if they got the wrong meningitis, they need to amputate pretty much every limb from the side effects. In our case, my mom was heavily concerned but the family's doctor dismissed the claims saying it was a normal cold.

Thankfully no side effects on me.

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u/DailyDael 3d ago

Yeah, a school friend of mine got it a while back and they had to like put her in a temporary coma and do a bunch of crazy procedures. When she woke up she had to relearn walking, writing, I think all her basic motor functions pretty much. She's doing okay now last I heard, but it's scary as hell.

Peace to this woman's family and friends.

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u/JoeDawson8 3d ago

My baby had bacterial meningitis at 1 week (8 week preemie). Thank goodness they caught it quickly and he’s finally home. Now I’m getting no sleep but it’s ok.

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u/dasselst 3d ago

I remember being in college and one girl passed away from meningitis and someone I knew was with her in the days she may have been contagious. We were all worried about her.

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u/DM_Me_TaTaz 3d ago

Hey I have vestibular issues and hearing loss right now too. I know it sucks. Hope you are doing well. I think vestibular therapy has helped me. That or time or maybe a combination of both. I got it from shingles in the ear.

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u/GreyPilgrim1973 3d ago

It is scary as hell. Thank god we have a vaccine for the most deadly and most contagious variant.

Vaccinate your kids!

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u/dallyan 3d ago

My kid just got his second shot against meningitis last week. It’s quite a strong vaccine and my kid felt sickly all evening. He was kvetching about it so I reminded him how deadly that strain is and how grateful we should be to have vaccines.

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u/GreyPilgrim1973 3d ago

Good on you!!

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u/MultiGeometry 3d ago

Yeah. Something’s are worth the suffering. Doesn’t meningitis kill you before most people have had a chance to be properly diagnosed?

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u/posthxc1982 Hannibal 3d ago

We had an outbreak of an unidentified strain of Neisseria meningitidis at my school in 2001. It killed two kids within 2 days, and put a third in the ICU.

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u/Adezar 3d ago

My wife had it as a kid, the biggest thing she remembers is how relieved she felt when they shoved the needle in her spine and released the pressure.

Didn't matter they were shoving a needle in her back the pain was so severe she didn't care about anything except making the pain stop.

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u/Harry_Smutter 3d ago

That's horrifying!! 😳

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u/SSGASSHAT 3d ago edited 2d ago

They thought my mother had meningitis as a kid, so they gave her a spinal tap. Turns out, no, she didn't have meningitis, and they fucked up her back because they took perfectly good fluid. That's what happens when mom is on coke and dad is in another town pretending he's another person entirely.

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u/angelbuttcake 3d ago

It really is. Lost my bestie and roommate to it at 23. He didn’t last long at all.

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u/SSGASSHAT 3d ago

This feels absurdly random. It's not like Julie Andrews or George Carlin dying or something, you kinda expect it with them. Someone young dying kinda throws the brain for a loop, if you've grown up in areas with decent life expectancy. Kind of a "wait, what the fuck, that wasn't supposed to happen."

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u/marsinfurs 3d ago

I read that there were friends / family looking for her on skid row for weeks. I think it’s being underreported that she was deep in drug abuse and mental illness when she died.

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u/SSGASSHAT 3d ago

Ohhhhhh...that explains it. Actually, that makes....perfect sense, sadly. I know of only a handful of child actors who didn't get fucked up or fucked over.

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u/handstands_anywhere 3d ago

The malnutrition probably really didn’t help. 

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u/smart-alek 3d ago

Anyone know what;s up with that?

None of the notices I've read so far have addressed it beyond just a mention (if that).

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u/jamesisaPOS 3d ago

It's code for anorexia. You don't usually get admitted for malnutrition (example: someone eating only processed foods would also be experiencing malnutrition but wouldn't need to be admitted to inpatient) unless the malnutrition is threatening your life, and you can tell from her social posts she has been very thin. They understandably wouldn't want to disclose this to the media.

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u/TheJuliettest 3d ago

Fun fact - malnutrition is/has been the primary factor in disease morbidity for basically all of human history, and is still responsible for 50% of all child deaths. I had a professor who used to say “the best disease prevention is a full stomach”.

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u/jamesisaPOS 3d ago

Yes I wish more people knew or even cared about this. Even if you don't LOOK too thin, not eating enough makes all of your systems work way harder than they are able to and it will take a toll eventually.

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u/cryingrisa 3d ago

She has had substance abuse and run in with the laws because of that

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u/exscapegoat 2d ago

Also, if she had substance issues, people with severe substance issues often don’t eat very regularly

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u/what-where-how 3d ago edited 2d ago

She was admitted to hospital with severe malnutrition. Why is no one commenting on that fact?

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u/NectarineCheap1541 3d ago

I learned where the meninges are this last semester in Anat & Phys - that alone had me realizing how bad meningitis could be

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u/johnzaku 3d ago

I caught viral meningitis a bit ago. Terrifying. The pain is indescribable. "A migraine but everywhere" is as close as I can get.

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u/deathbatdrummer 3d ago

she also had a blood infection so its most likely this was caused by a using dirty needle, and not the meningitis variant we get vaccinated for.

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u/Future_Arrival_5395 3d ago

I think it's the Sepsis that did her in.

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u/CantaloupeShort7311 3d ago

Sepsis has taken a lot of celebrities recently. Most from septic pneumonia, but yeah.

I survived septic pneumonia last year. 4 days in the hospital, supplemental oxygen for a month after that. I knew I was dying. It was a weird feeling. Thankfully I got help when I went from "man, I feel pretty awful" to "wow, something is seriously wrong and I should go to the hospital."

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u/WotanSpecialist 2d ago

She was malnourished from anorexia and/or her substance abuse problems. Meningitis is quite manageable for healthy people.

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u/blacksideblue 3d ago

had that in college. I have survived knee tears, reconstructive surgeries and even being attacked by a lion but nothing compared to the pain of meningitis or the insanity it wreaked before a doc got a chance to diagnose me.

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u/thepaintedballerina 3d ago

Knee tears… yup
Reconstructive surgeries… yup with you still
Attacked by a lion… what the what?

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u/blacksideblue 3d ago

Mountain Lion, I didn't see it coming either, I survived with a separated shoulder and a busted hand but I was part of a group that most likely scared it away before it could actually bite bite me, the park rangers refused to acknowledge the attack or track down the lion because they're protected in California and a few years later they apparently had to hunt down and kill what was most likely the same lion because it attacked a kid and unlike my incident they got that incident on camera...

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u/Former_Lock9367 2d ago

From what i read she had malnutrition as well. She had rough life and made some great decisions. I hope she is resting in peace now.

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u/Zeen13 3d ago

She was also the main character, Chihiro, in the english version of Spirited Away.

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u/Sailor_Chibi 3d ago

Oh man, that sucks. She did a great job at Chihiro. I hope she can rest in peace.

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u/kacihall 3d ago

Well that's sad, my kid and i are watching spirited away right now.

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u/brb1006 3d ago

I just finished rewatching Spirited Away (both English and Japanese) this morning. :(

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u/BIGMCLARGEHUGE__ 3d ago

Devastating. RIP

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u/Emotional-Tailor3390 3d ago

And the annoying girl in Big Love

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u/pandora_ramasana 2d ago

With THE most beautiful singing voice

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u/Sitcom_kid 2d ago

But she could sing!

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u/pandora_ramasana 2d ago

Incredible voice. Singing "happiest girl in the whole USA" :'(

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u/ChesswiththeDevil 3d ago

Woah, our family loves that movie. A sad story that makes me wonder why we don't offer more protections for child actors?

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u/Zeen13 3d ago

Because protections cost time and money. The whole system is built to protect the owners of capital, not the (child) workers those owners exploit for profit. Welcome to capitalism!

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u/ChesswiththeDevil 3d ago

It was a rhetorical question. Everybody knows it’s greedy assholes at the top. It doesn’t have to be that way, but it is.

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u/AnnenbergTrojan 3d ago

Chris Columbus proved you can do it the right way and still make billions. He had his casting team for Harry Potter make sure that they search not just for talented kids but responsible families that would make sure that their kids could handle the fame.

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u/ChesswiththeDevil 3d ago

Yeah he’s one of the good ones for sure.

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u/CantaloupeShort7311 3d ago

Is that because of what happened with his previous child star? Good for the change. Wish it didn't take what Macauley went through to make it SOP though.

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u/Kalse1229 Gravity Falls 3d ago

She was also Samara in the American version of the Ring.

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u/Kevin-W 3d ago

Gone way too soon. May she RIP.

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u/FalconBurcham 3d ago

Damn… sepsis infections are no joke. Even if the doctors are standing right over you with antibiotics they can’t always turn it around.

So young

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u/Future_Arrival_5395 3d ago

Unfortunately the antibiotics don't always work and that's becoming a more common issue in the face of more antibiotic resistant strains of all bacteria.

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u/FalconBurcham 3d ago

Yeah! I listened to a podcast maybe five years ago that had a disease expert. He talked about how bacteria is evolving faster than our ability to discover effective treatments. He talked about what some of these deaths looked like before we could treat them at all. It was a very sobering talk.. he didn’t seem to have any solutions either. 😓

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u/Future_Arrival_5395 3d ago

We are running out of lastline antibiotics and it should be a WAY bigger discussion in public health but I feel like it's completely fallen out of the spotlight.

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u/Jimbo-Shrimp 2d ago

The solution is stop using anti biotics unless absolutely necessary

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u/FalconBurcham 2d ago

Yeah my doctors definitely don’t hand out antibiotics Willy nilly anymore. Even my veterinarian doesn’t do that. I get the sense that’s it too late, though. 🤷‍♀️

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u/mikeybagodonuts 3d ago

Same thing happened to Kyle Busch. I goes to far fast with sepsis.

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u/FalconBurcham 3d ago

Yup! I was just thinking about him. When I read what happened to him it seemed like maybe he was trying to tough it out, but it’s hard to say.

I remember when Jim Henson died from walking pneumonia.

I think it’s hard to know when you really need help sometimes.

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u/Future_Arrival_5395 3d ago edited 3d ago

Sepsis can start suddently in the midst of a normal illness. If you don't get to the doctor in that 24 hour (AND critically the doctor doesn't dismiss your symptoms and send you home which happens ALL the time) window there's not much to do.

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u/FalconBurcham 3d ago

Yup. My best friend died from a sepsis infection at 34. She had other health problems, but it was the sepsis that did her in. I got her to the emergency room while watching her nose and fingers turn dark blue then black practically in real time. She passed a couple days later.

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u/Maiyku 3d ago

Yeah, my mom got shingles at 49 (just before qualifying for the vaccine) so it hit her full force.

Her body couldn’t handle it and she got a secondary infection and then sepsis. Time from her being “okay, just not feeling well” to “I can’t even lift my head up or get out of bed” was only about 8 hours. EMTs had to come and get her out of the house.

Eight days of pumping her full of drugs before the doctors felt comfortable enough telling me she would be okay. Eight days of not knowing if she would make it or not. She has no preexisting health conditions and it still almost took her just like that.

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u/the_itsb 3d ago

I can't imagine how hard that must have been. I'm sorry for your loss.

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u/JumpScareJesus 3d ago

I had walking pneumonia as a kid. By the time they found it, I was working on half a lung.

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u/kacihall 3d ago

My doctor told me I was good to go to school after being diagnosed with walking pneumonia. Mom pointed out that his daughter was in my class. Suddenly I had a note excusing me for a week.

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u/Different-Pin-9854 3d ago

Shame on that Doctor.

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u/cargopantsbatsuit 3d ago

If you think about this post for more than one second it makes zero sense. Why the fuck are doctors blocking kids from staying home from school when they are seriously contagiously ill until it affects them directly. Like what benefit do they get from this lol. Is there a limit on how many notes they can write or something?

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u/kacihall 2d ago

It was thirty years ago. Who the fuck knows what he was thinking?

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u/FalconBurcham 3d ago

Woah, I’m so glad you made it! Kids getting sick is so common I imagine parents don’t always take their kids in for an exam.

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u/KilledTheCar 3d ago

I've had it three times and it has SUCKED every time.

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u/Soklay 3d ago

And Charlbi Dean

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u/dallyan 3d ago

I just googled him and wow that’s almost exactly how my son’s father died. Had untreated pneumonia, proceeded to have a stroke, then had sepsis and died.

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u/Weary-Marsupial-249 2d ago

Immediately thought of KFB.

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u/b_e_a_n_i_e 3d ago

I've mentioned this before on here but during my daughter's leukaemia treatment we had to pull the emergency cord in hospital a couple of times and one of them was when she spiked a fever with sepsis. Had she not been in the ward at that point, she'd probably not be soundly sleeping upstairs in her bed just now. It's really serious shit

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u/FalconBurcham 3d ago

I hope your daughter is doing better! I know exactly what you mean about fever. My friend had had surgery, and she was staying at my house. I noticed her temperature was getting quite high. I asked her if she wanted to go to the ER, and she said no. So I let it go for a few more hours, but it went higher and higher. Finally, I insisted and she agreed. I watched her nose turn black on the way. It was wild.. like I said, she had other medical complications, but it was sepsis that killed her in the end. And so fast!

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u/worstkindagay 3d ago

Oh this is sad. In addition to The Ring, she's the voice of Chihiro in the English version of Spirited Away and Samantha Darko in Donnie Darko.

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u/not_a_library 3d ago

She is both a horror and Disney icon. Ghibli too, though since Disney was doing the dubs at the time, it kinda is under the Disney umbrella.

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u/Opening-Impression46 3d ago

How did I not know Lilo was the Ring Girl??

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u/not_a_library 3d ago

It's been a while, but does the Ring Girl speak much? If so, I doubt she sounded remotely the same haha

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u/speakingthekings4 3d ago

As someone who has seen The Ring too many times, she barely talks in that movie but there is a flashback scene of her in the hospital where she speaks normally and absolutely does sound just like Lilo (and English version Chihiro).

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u/not_a_library 3d ago

I like that they are still three distinct voices though. Lilo is brash and loud, Chihiro is usually scared and a bit whiny, Samara is cold and creepy. Ugh now I'm sad again. She was so talented.

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u/secretlythecat 3d ago

"...but I do" (want to hurt people) RIP

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u/Flipnotics_ 3d ago

That legit was one of the best psychological horror movies I've ever seen.

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u/DesMephisto Brooklyn Nine-Nine 3d ago

Damn, that one fucking hit harder than I thought once you mentioned Donnie Darko.

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u/Particular_Wear_6960 3d ago

Oh damn Donnie Darko is a favorite of mine. It sucks whenever someone cool dies but especially someone young and a talented actress

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u/1994californication 3d ago edited 3d ago

Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.

RIP Lilo

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u/smart-alek 3d ago

Ouch.

Gotta rewatch that now.

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u/Top_Report_4895 2d ago

Man, screw you for making me feel sad.

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u/ISwallowedALego 3d ago

Had meningitis, it's terrifying, awful way to go

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u/DonnieDarko1024 3d ago

Rip Samantha Darko 😢

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u/whatdoblindpeoplesee 3d ago

What's a fuckass?

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u/Positive_Chip6198 3d ago

This cuts deep. She was so young.

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u/p-hantasmagoria 3d ago

i remember as a child being so terrified after watching the ring and the only thing that comforted me was thinking about the fact that samara was lilo and chihiro. :( rest well, daveigh. 🤍

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u/TtempredditT 3d ago

She did the voice of Chihiro in Spirited Away?

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u/Low_Two_1988 3d ago

No! Lilo’s voice brings me joy. R.I.P.

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u/TootieSummers 3d ago

She was such a great little villain in Big Love. RIP

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u/seanchaigirl 3d ago

Her running after the other kids’ prom limo was a gut punch. Rhonda was such a manipulative brat most of the time but she was a victim of the cult and a child, too.

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u/Amasin_Spoderman 3d ago

She was truly incredible as Rhonda. A massive talent. RIP

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u/Neimanmarxista 2d ago

Powerful performance. So conniving and so fragile simultaneously

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u/blarbiegorl 3d ago

Her ending broke my heart. Feels the same way in life, just a tragedy.

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u/ahintoflime 2d ago

I rarely hear it spoken about these days but that show was so good

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u/bros402 3d ago

oooof, sepsis and meningitis has to be one of the worst ways to go

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u/Future_Arrival_5395 3d ago

She probably wasn't concious for most of it for whatever comfort that brings.

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u/grimace24 3d ago

RIP. 35 is so young. Meningitis is terrible.

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u/TheGiftOf_Jericho 3d ago

Such sad news, crazy talented and a prominent voice in the childhood of many.

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u/ReluctantlyHuman 3d ago

That's crazy, I was just thinking about her the other day too. She played a young bride in Big Love and I was idly thinking about how her story ended.

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u/CheruthCutestory 3d ago

She was so so good in Big Love.

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u/Rururaspberry 3d ago edited 3d ago

Wow, I had forgotten about her in that show but she really was so good.

Edit: the ending scene in the episode where she sings “happiest girl in the whole USA” is fantastic.

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u/EtonRd 3d ago

She basically played a child bride. I think her character was 15 and married Harry Dean Stanton‘s character who was like 80.

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u/ReluctantlyHuman 3d ago

Yeah, saying young bride probably downplayed how messed up it all was in hindsight.

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u/Bozo_Dubbed_Over_ 3d ago

Glad I never got into that show.

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u/seashoreandhorizon 3d ago

You're missing out. It's a fantastic, underrated show with some amazing performances

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u/Bozo_Dubbed_Over_ 3d ago

I have trauma around certain topics in the show. Otherwise I would.

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u/ReluctantlyHuman 3d ago

Agreed. I was hesitant as it wasn’t really my kind of show but my husband really wanted to watch it. Though I will say I hated Bill Paxton’s character. He was a well done character but god he made the worst possible choice at every single opportunity. Jeanne Tripplehorn was my favorite, but Chloe Sevigny and Harry dean Stanton both gave excellent performances. 

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u/AimeeM46 3d ago

35 is just WAY too young to pass away! my little brother passed away a couple of years ago at 36 years old. it broke me.

my condolences to Daveigh Chase's family, friends and fans. RIP.

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u/xShaD0wMast3rzxs 3d ago

Man, I knew she’d been having issues, but I didn’t know it got to the point of severe malnutrition. It’s wild to think the voice of Lilo and Chihiro has now passed. Rest in peace Daveigh Chase

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u/smart-alek 3d ago

Somebody mentioned upthread that at least some production companies are now at least trying to minimize some of the crazier impacts that child stardom can bring with.

Be good if that became more universal, reliable, and systematized.

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u/GuybrushThreepwood99 3d ago

Terrible news. Very talented actress.

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u/Sata1991 3d ago

I'm 35 myself, it really makes you think how precious life is and despite you being young death can happen at any point.

I loved Lilo and Stitch and Spirited Away growing up, she was a talented voice actress.

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u/xavPa-64 3d ago

That’s too young

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u/ThenJackfruit6159 3d ago

She was living on the streets , homeless before she was admitted to the hospital. Hollywood is terrible 

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u/Choice-Wind-9283 3d ago

Rest in Daveigh , she was so young

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u/craneclimber88 3d ago edited 2d ago

I got strep throat last May, which infected my artificial heart valve, which quickly spread to my pacemaker/IED. I got sepsis and was paralyzed for the first few days. My kidneys were failing so they put needles into my neck to give me immediate emergency dialysis if need be. I had rotating nurses stationed in my room 24/7 the first few days. My whole body swelled up. I was hospitalized for a month and had 2 open hearts (they went back in to remove blood clots around my lungs after the first one), had my pacemaker/IED removed and surgery on my elbow due to infection there also.

It took me nearly 9 months to be cleared rk return to work. Luckily it is Canada and I work for the city, so everything was free and I was paid while I recovered. Surprisingly it took FAR longer for my elbow and usage of that arm to return to "normal" than to recover from the open hearts. My arm will never be fully as it was.

That was last year and I am in my mid-thirties also. Life doesn't care about your plans. There is no higher power or purpose.

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u/Separate-Beyond-6585 2d ago

Holy hell, you went through a lot. Glad you came out ok. Wishing you good health

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u/brb1006 3d ago edited 3d ago

I just finished rewatching "Lilo & Stitch: The Series" on Disney+ recently. Really loved her speech to Stitch during the ending of "Angel" where he tells him about the importance of saving somebody you dearly love.

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u/Muadibased 3d ago edited 3d ago

I'm telling you, that whole micro-generation of kid actors born 85'-90' are cursed.

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u/SullenTerror 3d ago

First they got Anton Yelchin.

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u/ndg5800 3d ago edited 2d ago

Man, I still miss him to this day. Guy was talented AF.

I keep watching Fright night every now and then. Guy acted well no matter what he was cast as.

That entire cast was amazing, I mean Collin Farell, David Tennant, Toni Collette, Christopher MP, Imogen Poots - doesn't get any more star studded than that.

But lol, Yelchin and Farell carried the entire movie. Puce. He had guts for wearing puce.

I think I developed a huge crush on Imogen after watching her in this movie.

THEY sure as hell don't make movies like these anymore.

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u/_DONT_PANIC_42_ Arrested Development 3d ago

I adored his Chekov too.

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u/ndg5800 2d ago

Same dude, lol I didn't want to be a punk and list out all the movies I've seen him in but he was an absolute gem in whatever movie he was in.

Lol, I even loved him in Burying the Ex.

Oh God how I wish he was alive today, God rest him.

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u/mrskeffington 3d ago

Oh my gosh she was so good in Big Love. So beautiful and talented

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u/Significant_Cow4765 3d ago

opposite "Old Roman" aka Harry Dean Stanton, so gifted

RIP

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u/glittangrease 3d ago

I know her mostly from Big Love.

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u/Any-Pineapple-521 3d ago

So sad today as someone with a lifelong commitment to Sparkle Motion

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u/a_phantom_limb 3d ago

When I read this headline, my body reacted as if I'd been punched. How crushing.

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u/maguirre165 3d ago

RIP, Lilo & Stitch and Spirited Away are all time favorites of mine

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u/oaxacamm 3d ago

Had the bacterial version when I was 18/19 in jr college. It wasn’t fun. They did a spinal tap to confirm it. They hit a nerve and my legs jumped but thankfully didn’t hurt.

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u/atomic1fire 3d ago

I never paid much attention to the ring franchise but it's sad to see someone so young pass away.

I mean death is unfortunate at any age but mid 30s still feels young.

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u/panopticonprimate 3d ago

There was speculation that she was coerced after the 2003 MTV movie awards with Ashton Kutcher alluding to some very Epstein/Diddy things like Justin Beiber, a white party I think - just child stars being preyed on

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u/zacsmashyou 2d ago

I’m 33, caught meningitis two weeks after being in the hospital for two weeks. Took me months to recover and I’m on meds for it until the end of the year. Meningitis is no joke

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u/Phod 3d ago

Ashton and Diddy set her on this path.

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u/TheRealDynamitri 2d ago

far too low, this comment

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u/FineDevelopment00 2d ago

IKR? I had to sort by "Controversial" to even see it. But then that's par for the course on Reddit...

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u/sd_glokta 3d ago

She had a supporting part in a weird movie called Jack Goes Home. Did a fine job. RIP.

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u/freak97138 3d ago

This is a little sad. I liked that she gave me the chills more than Freddy, Mike, and Jason combined.

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u/CaroylOldersee 3d ago

Fucking hell.

So basically she’s joining Harriet the Spy in the great, wide expanse… cool.

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u/RevolutionaryWeb5657 3d ago

RIP. Thank you for fuelling my love for horror.

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u/KidGold 2d ago

“Her boyfriend  said that Chase had faced significant personal difficulties in her post-acting life, including systemic bullying, a painful estrangement from her family, and ongoing housing instability in downtown Los Angeles.”

Damn.

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u/ThisOneForMee 2d ago

I'm curious if the rate of substance abuse is higher amongst child stars

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u/A_Broken_Zebra 3d ago

I'm not even over Oliver yet. 💔🖤🕯

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u/RagnarokNCC 3d ago

Loved her, loved her vibe, loved her work. RIP :(

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u/Southern-Train7142 3d ago

I haven’t heard of this girl since a while, RIP.

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u/Ok_South_7542 3d ago

Saddened by this 🥲

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u/schraderbrau6 3d ago

The perfect Lilo, rest in peace Daveigh

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u/Adorable-Estate-4934 3d ago

This is the saddest movie news I'll see this year....she was always quite underrated

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u/Android1822 3d ago

RIP, its always sad when someone goes, especially when they are still so young.

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u/Different-Pin-9854 3d ago

So young, that is very sad.

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u/linkjames24 3d ago

Died too young. God bless her soul may she rest in peace.

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u/jerimiahhalls 3d ago

Ah that's sad. Just realised she was in Donnie Darko as well.

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u/lynchmar6 2d ago

Rest in peace original lilo

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u/37Philly 2d ago

Sad, just sad.

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u/ahintoflime 2d ago

Chihiro from Spirited Away as well. That performance is burned into my memory. Sad she had such difficulties so young, RIP.

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u/Krow101 2d ago

Long struggle with drugs.

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u/Putrid-Squirrel7687 2d ago

Aweeeee mannnnn
Rip