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moviesMan, I don't like this.
I checked out the go fund me and while it's never stated explicitly, one might come to the conclusion that she was homeless.
I also didn't like the vibe of the go fun me.
Tried to find out who her boyfriend was and there was almost nothing about him online, which isn't necessarily a red flag.
I just can't help but be a cynic when it comes to former child stars being in precarious situations and living in LA. My assumption is always that whomever finds them and attaches themselves to them isn't going to be a good person. Maybe I'm being judgy. I dunno. At first I didn't want to say anything, because it could just be bs and maybe they had a happy life in a safe home and they just like wearing beanies and layers of clothes for fun. Maybe it's totally normal for your boyfriend to air out your trauma in a fundraiser and post several pictures where he is the focus of the image and not you while he asks for money for your final days. Maybe I'm just being a judgy bitch.
And then I found a couple of articles talking about how her family and friends have been looking for her since 2017 and there's a PI trying to track her down on fucking Skid Row of all places and last she was spotted she was skin and bones and seemed exhausted.
She has been in trouble with the law with drug possession and joyriding from what I could understand and according to her old manager she was homeless and her boyfriend is in his opinion an opportunist.
Who is right? Who is wrong? Her boyfriend frames himself as a white knight in the go fund me. Maybe he is. Maybe all my alarm bells in my head is just me being judgy af. Maybe all these articles are fiction on tabloid sites. I don't know. I just know that there is something not right about this situation.
At the end of the day, it's tragic no matter what is true. The picture I'm getting of Chase's last years is one of homelessness, substance abuse and extreme psychological suffering.
As some people also mentioned in this thread, she was preyed upon by Diddy and Ashton Kutcher, which I can only imagine what they did to her psyche and sense of self.
I lean towards believing these tabloid sites, mostly because it is eerily common for former child actors to end up on the street when Hollywood is done sucking their youth and innocence from them, but make up your own minds.
Rest in peace, Daveigh Chase. You were wronged and failed by the adults who were supposed to protect you.
Ah so according to the last couple paragraphs in the last article you linked, Daveigh's heavily tattooed Mexican "boyfriend" made that GoFundMe taking advantage of Daveigh's fame to try to squeeze out $5k for himself, while really Daveigh had no financial problems, she had a trust fund, but wasn't allowed to access it while shitfaced on heroin & fentanyl.
Sad sad sad 😢
Him being a tattooed Mexican isn't as concerning as him most likely being a fellow addict who may or may not be using her status and illness/death to get some money for drugs.
Or
He could be genuine and genuinely wanted her to have comfort during her last days.
I was skeptical because of how he used her traumatic past and her illness to get money while having the main pic on the fundraiser be a big picture of him and her kissing, with most of her face pushed out of the frame.
It just struck me as super friggin bizarre choices and reading about what her former manager said about this guy, it seems to confirm my gut feeling.
But him being Mexican doesn't matter at all. Addicts are addicts. He might even be a great person who's become an opportunist due to his own addictions. It's a rough world when you're an addict. Empathy and human connection takes a backseat to addiction at every step.
He was her Skid Row buddy. When people end up there, they are just steps away from ending up in the dumpster, literally and figuratively.
And what part of that had anything to do with her boyfriend being Mexican? Why did you bring that up? Why was that so important to you to fixate on?
You need to get over that word. I said that word once and you can't get over it. Get over it.
Dang! Tattooed may pass, but Mexican! Hold the shit load of shit right there! Am I right? Isn't being born on the wrong sector of a tiny ass blue point in the sky the worse?
But one thing we can agree is holy shit Lilo is dead?! Wow! Very sad. But please don't use the boyfriend's origins as a way to denigrate him. From pluto. The entire earth is Mexico for a few hours each day. Imagine the infinite volume of possible earth observation per unit time that is.
Oh I'm sorry. If he had been Asian then I would have said asian. If he had been from Finland I would have said Finnish. If he had been a penguin from Antarctica I probably couldn't have resisted mentioning that too.
She died of complications from meningitis and sepsis in case you didn't read the article. She was hospitalized from malnutrition, but it wasn't what killed her.
"hospitalised earlier this month for malnutrition"?!? Jfc how long did she suffer before someone thought to get her to a hospital??
You've never advocated for homeless populations, or you wouldn't ask that.
No i haven't but she wasn't homeless or did she at one point live on the street?
After appearing in Thomas Dekker’s 2016 horror film Jack Goes Home, Chase largely withdrew from acting. In the GoFundMe page, Hernandez refers to various difficulties encountered by the actor, including bullying and a falling out with her family. Chase, he writes, “struggled to find safety and happiness in downtown LA” but that the two “found moments of happiness and hope” until her recent health issues. According to TMZ, Chase was taken to a hospital earlier this month for malnutrition.
From another source
RIP
It os entirely possible that her "boyfriend" is a scam artist trying to get money out of her death. SAG has her funeral expenses covered actually. And her family has said that they've been trying to find her for a pretty long time. Unknown if there was issues between them and her but there are a lot of unknowns.
But, don't donate to his GoFundMe. Her final expenses are fully covered by the actors union.
Also found out she was "acquainted" with Diddy, jfc she had a shit life.
Jesus fucking christ, what a horrible way to go at such a young age. I loved her voice not only as Lilo but ~~Shihiro~~ Chihiro in Spirited Away. God damn, she'll be missed.
*Chihiro
I never watched the English dub of Spirited Away because In not a dub person (I didn't know it was even her in it!) but I loved Chase's performance in Lilo and Stitch and that makes me want to check it out after the fact.
From my perspective Spirited Away was one of the movies that really solidified anime as "a thing" in the west, and that's kinda huge.
Ghibli films are the only foreign language films that I watch dubbed, because the English voice casts are incredible
Studio Ghibli films are generally better with the English dubs - they put serious effort in, and it shows.
In Spirited Away the English dub is far better than the original IMO.
Outside of Ghibli, I avoid English dubs.
Ghibli dubs are undoubtedly the best in the business and have some serious talent.
But I still like the subs more. That's just preference I suppose.
TBF, Miramax fucked the Western release of Nausicaa, way back when, so...
A blessing in disguise, perhaps.
If the English release of Nausicaa had been done well, Ghibli may have continued allowing foreign distributors to make major changes to their movies under the remit of "internationalisation"
But they screwed it up, which lead directly to the now-famous "no edits" policy.
In the long-term I think that fuck-up really helped Ghibli to cement their reputation in the west for making good stuff.
I suppose my point is more that I've reservations with believing Miramax simply made a series of oopsies (still took the money, though), vs the far more likely: their parent co (Disney) internationally burned its release.
Hell, it was so slack-ass, so devoid of effort, it screams "slap in the face". Never mind that it's indefensibly illegal —Disney no doubt was betting they'd skate at worst, 'cuz: Murica.
Impressive, from an academic point that, to this day, so few've seen the insane box art for that "fuck you" robbery Disney pulled (by proxy), much less are even aware of this event at all.
Whomever they paid to bury it deeper than fish shit really took it to the enth. 🧏🏽♂️
I'm not familiar with this situation, what did Miramax change about the English release of Nausicaa?
I'm also not familiar but here's a reddit post from 2 years ago where the VHS is titled Warriors of the Wind:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Miyazaki/comments/1bzyr6v/the_vhs_version_of_nausica%25C3%25A4_that_caused_miyazaki/
Very few scenes were cut completely but the dubbing was very liberal. For scenes, they cut the dream sequence/ memory of the baby Ohm, a bit with the foreign girl who died in the crash in order to make her a princess instead of a sister, and they removed the scene where Nausicaä is crying in the room with all the plants from the forest and she explains that the plants themselves aren't toxic, the soil is. Overall the script changed enough that you just miss all the real politics and environmental impact. still liked it as a kid but Nausicaä as it was re dubbed / released is better.
Going through and watching it for the first time in years after watching Nausicaä and am also noticing a lot of pretty blatant sexism in the editing process- all of her skills are downplayed where in the Miyazaki cut the characters are proud of and will brag about her flying skills or marvel about her between themselves, in this edit they're quiet or the scene is cut completely. Also any scenes where it's just women talking to each other about mythology or history of the world are also cut- like in the bedchamber of her father, and at the submarine at the end.
In this cut they also cut any sass she gives the men, and instead had the men give her condescending remarks or praise at points that she seemingly just ignores, where in the Miyazaki cut she gives back just as equally.
Also completely forgot they call the Ohm Gorgons but that may be because we use the word Ohm in english for electronics.
Thanks for that summation! Wonderfully done, and the box art was especially ridiculous, let's not forget. 🤓
Malnutrition... sounds like some form of mental health or abuse to me.
It all begins to make sense when you find out that she was homeless and addicted to drugs on Skid Row for a decade :( seems like she was desperate to just forget everything. :(
Dude wtf didn't Kyle Busch just die of sepsis at 41?
What's up with relatively young famous people suddenly dying of sepsis??
Sepsis is really easy to die from. Fame is no protection!
Rip
RIP, one of the greats.
