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Though Daveigh Chase got her start in projects like Lilo & Stitch and The Ring, she spent the final years of her life homeless on LA’s Skid Row.<\/p>\n

Daveigh’s mum recently revealed<\/a> that her daughter’s drug addiction came after a motorcycle accident in 2016. Her reliance on painkillers like oxycodone soon brought her into contact with the “wrong people.”<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was seeking drugs and was partying with the wrong people. I never kicked my daughter out. She wanted freedom and these people got her hooked on some drugs. That was the beginning,\u201d her mum, Cathy Chase, said.<\/p>\n

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Though Daveigh’s loved ones frequently attempted to find and help her, she remained homeless until being hospitalised for malnutrition. She died soon after<\/a>, having developed a blood infection and meningitis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI let out this guttural scream and I just was running,” her mum added. “And these weird sounds were coming out of me, these kind of, like, primeval sounds. And I went out into the backyard, and I was screaming, \u2018No, no, no, no!\u2019 I am in so much pain but I hope her soul heard me.\u201d<\/p>\n

This man was friends with a homeless Daveigh Chase<\/h2>\n

For much of her later life, Daveigh Chase lived on Skid Row, LA’s largest and most densely populated area of homeless people.<\/p>\n

Shawn Rosenthal was friends with Daveigh when he, too, had issues with substances. Though he’s clean now, he said Daveigh’s friendship left a lasting impression on him.<\/p>\n

“I was pretty close to Daveigh from around 2018 to 2023. She was an incredible singer, and we would play music together that, unfortunately, we never had a chance to record,” he told PEOPLE<\/a>. “I wound up getting clean in 2023, which is why I haven’t seen her since then. Some of her sober friends and I were trying to find her and get her help, but to no avail. She was surrounding herself with the worst of the worst people. It’s such a tragedy because no one cared for her best interests at all.”<\/p>\n

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Echoing other comments from the people who knew her, Shawn admitted the former actress was “unrecognisable” in her final years.<\/p>\n

“I feared hearing this news. I pray she’s just finally at peace,” he added.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Skid Row’s self-declared mayor<\/a> earlier said: \u201cWell, she was getting more thin every time I seen her, she was getting thinner, and that let me know that she had a disease that was unarrested, and she needed help,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd she couldn\u2019t get the help fast enough before the disease took her life.”<\/p>\n

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