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Actor Kaylee Hottle, who starred in the films Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em> and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire<\/em> films, has died at the age of 19.<\/p>\n The deaf actor’s father, Joshua Hottle, confirmed to TMZ <\/a>that Kaylee Hottle died following a serious car crash in Maryland on Tuesday morning. In a Facebook livestream<\/a>, he used American Sign Language to explain the circumstances of his daughter’s death. He said she died en route to the hospital and that he had to fly from Texas to Maryland to claim her body.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I am taking a flight that I never would like to take,” Joshua Hottle wrote in the caption to the video.\u00a0<\/p>\n He said that he had initially received a call from police about the crash. He said he later received another call during which he was told his daughter’s heart had stopped on the way to the hospital, TMZ reported.<\/p>\n Kaylee Hottle was born in Atlanta and raised in an all-deaf family \u2014 her father’s side of the family has had four generations of deaf relatives, Chron reported<\/a>. She attended the Texas School for the Deaf, which released a statement on July 21<\/a> saying, “Our hearts are with Kaylee’s family, friends, classmates, and everyone who knew and loved her during this incredibly difficult time.”<\/p>\n “At this time, we have very limited information and ask that everyone respect the privacy of Kaylee’s family and refrain from sharing or speculating about the circumstances surrounding the accident,” the statement continued.<\/p>\n This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Actor Kaylee Hottle, who starred in the films Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire films, has died at the age of 19. The deaf actor’s father, Joshua Hottle, confirmed to TMZ that Kaylee Hottle died following a serious car crash in Maryland on Tuesday morning. In a Facebook livestream, he used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2511169,"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":[25172],"tags":[495429,495428,495427,350454],"class_list":["post-2511168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-godzilla-x-kong","tag-joshua-hottle","tag-kaylee-hottle","tag-tmz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Kaylee-Hottle-star-of-Godzilla-vs-Kong-films-dies-at.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511168","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=2511168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511170,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511168\/revisions\/2511170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}