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The Ring and Lilo & Stitch actress Daveigh Chase died of Aids
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- Chase, who also voiced Chihiro in the English version of Spirited Away and starred in the cable drama Big Love, passed away on 16 June at the age of 35.
- The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, which marked the case status as "open", listed "chronic polysubstance use" under "other significant conditions" she was experiencing.
- Chase's manager, John Ryan Jr, told BBC News last week that she died from sepsis after suffering from meningitis in an LA hospital.
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Angeles Published20 minutes ago Daveigh Chase, the horror actress who crawled out of a TV in The Ring and voiced Lilo in Disney's animated Lilo & Stitch, died this month from Aids, according to a medical examiner's report.
Chase, who also voiced Chihiro in the English version of Spirited Away and starred in the cable drama Big Love, passed away on 16 June at the age of 35.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, which marked the case status as "open", listed "chronic polysubstance use" under "other significant conditions" she was experiencing.
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