{"id":2482695,"date":"2026-06-30T23:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2482695"},"modified":"2026-06-30T23:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:13:53","slug":"spencer-pratt-makes-new-claim-about-daveigh-chases-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/spencer-pratt-makes-new-claim-about-daveigh-chases-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Pratt makes new claim about Daveigh Chase&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Spencer Pratt claimed in a bold new social media post that \u201cLilo &amp; Stitch\u201d star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/17\/celebrity-news\/daveigh-chase-star-of-the-ring-and-lilo-stitch-dead-at-35\/\">Daveigh Chase died <\/a>because she wasn\u2019t forced into rehab. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis poor beautiful girl is dead because nobody was willing to drag her to rehab against her will,\u201d Pratt <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/spencerpratt\/status\/2071956630930112641?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote via X <\/a>on Saturday, responding to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/17\/celebrity-news\/ghastly-video-shows-lilo-stitch-actress-daveigh-chase-wasting-away-on-skid-row-months-before-death\/?utm_campaign=capost&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\">The Post\u2019s June 17 headline<\/a>, \u201cGhastly video shows \u2018Lilo &amp; Stitch\u2019 actress Daveigh Chase wasting away on Skid Row months before death.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In the comments thread, fans echoed the former Los Angeles mayoral candidate\u2019s sentiments. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow sad,\u201d one person wrote, while another remarked, \u201cIt\u2019s a shame that nobody came forward to drag this girl to rehab. It\u2019s a shame that nobody came forward to get her off of the streets. It\u2019s a shame that nobody came forward to love her and help her rebuild her life.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Others lashed out at the entertainment industry, with one person chiming in, \u201cHollywood in a nutshell. A lifetime of use and abuse and left for dead on the streets.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Spencer Pratt, seen above earlier this month, wrote on X that Daveigh Chase died \u201cbecause nobody was willing to drag her to rehab against her will.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The former Los Angeles mayoral candidate reshared a Page Six headline from June 17, as seen above, regarding the \u201cLilo &amp; Stitch\u201d star\u2019s physical state prior to her death.  <span class=\"credit\">Twitter\/spencerpratt<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The social media post comes one day after the \u201cRing\u201d star\u2019s cause of death on June 16 was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/29\/celebrity-news\/daveigh-chases-cause-of-death-revealed\/\">revealed to be acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)<\/a>, per the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner report obtained by Page Six on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Chronic polysubstance use was also cited as a contributing factor, with the manner of death being determined natural. <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSpirited Away\u201d actress\u00a0was diagnosed with multiple \u201cserious\u201d blood infections that turned her body septic, as well as meningitis, before passing away, her alleged boyfriend Roy Hernandez said at the time. <\/p>\n<p>According to TMZ, the actress was admitted early in June to a local hospital due to malnutrition.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The \u201cRing\u201d actress, seen above in a photo from a fundraising page, died on June 16.  <span class=\"credit\">GoFundMe<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The \u201cSpirited Away\u201d voice actress, pictured above in a previous social media post, was reportedly hospitalized with malnutrition prior to her death.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/daveighc<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The former child star was 35. <\/p>\n<p>Hernandez launched a fundraiser prior to Chase\u2019s death, claiming he hoped to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/17\/celebrity-news\/daveigh-chases-boyfriend-set-up-gofundme-to-help-actress-find-comfort-and-peace-in-final-days-before-death\/\">help her find \u201ccomfort\u201d <\/a>in her last days. Later, he insisted to TMZ he planned to give her a \u201cproper memorial\u201d with the funds. <\/p>\n<p>But her former longtime manager, John Ryan, subsequently told The Post that \u201cnone of us friends or her family\u201d had heard of Hernandez, and claimed he \u201ccan <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/18\/celebrity-news\/daveigh-chases-former-manager-casts-doubt-on-late-actress-alleged-boyfriends-gofundme\/\">confirm Daveigh has a trust account<\/a> set up at SAG to cover all costs\u201d relating to her death.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan also claimed that the actress was \u201ctoo far gone\u201d in her addiction to drugs including fentanyl and heroin to claim<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/17\/entertainment\/lilo-stitch-actress-daveigh-chase-reportedly-had-millions-in-residuals-at-time-of-death\/\"> millions of dollars in residuals<\/a> she\u2019d earned.<\/p>\n<p>In a clip obtained by The Post earlier this month, the actress was seen looking shockingly thin and all but unconscious while lying on the floor of a trailer or tent on Skid Row in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>On Monday, Page Six obtained documents revealing that Chase died of AIDS. The actress is pictured here in a snapshot included in a fundraiser.  <span class=\"credit\">GoFundMe<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Pratt, pictured above earlier this month, has been critical of Los Angeles\u2019 homelessness problem.  <span class=\"credit\">4CRNS, WCP \/ BACKGRID for CA Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ryan said at the time that he\u2019d been searching for the actress for months \u2014 along with a private investigator and Chase\u2019s stepsister, Gaia Brown \u2014 prior to seeing the video late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to being <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/video\/spencer-pratt-hits-back-at-savage-jimmy-kimmel-roasting-will-speidi-leave-la\/\">edged out of the Los Angeles mayoral race<\/a> earlier this month by opponents Karen Bass and Nithya Raman, the reality star had repeatedly <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/21\/us-news\/spencer-pratt-reveals-radical-plan-to-rehabilitate-la-homeless\/\">slammed Los Angeles\u2019 handling of its homelessness<\/a> crisis. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t get off these drugs with beds,\u201d Pratt, 42, told celebrity.land in an interview last month. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need support. You need a real solution,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd what\u2019s happening? We\u2019ve done it now, what, for 10 years. Their plan does not work. Their experience is complete failure. This is not Spencer saying this. This is every single person with eyeballs driving around LA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If you or someone you care about is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call SAMHSA\u2019s National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spencer Pratt claimed in a bold new social media post that \u201cLilo &amp; Stitch\u201d star Daveigh Chase died because she wasn\u2019t forced into rehab. \u201cThis poor beautiful girl is dead because nobody was willing to drag her to rehab against her will,\u201d Pratt wrote via X on Saturday, responding to The Post\u2019s June 17 headline, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2482696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,24003,21787,365427,22693,21912,43174,21913],"class_list":["post-2482695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-social-media","tag-homelessness","tag-los-angeles","tag-movies","tag-spencer-pratt","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Spencer-Pratt-makes-new-claim-about-Daveigh-Chases-death.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482697,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482695\/revisions\/2482697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2482696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}