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[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 18 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Man, 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.

The fundraiser

An article on SoapCentral

Wikipedia

Bollywoodsaadis - warning ⚠️ an uncomfortable picture, supposedly of Chase herself on Skid Row in 2025

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.

[-] Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org -4 points 6 hours ago

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 😢

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago

heavily tattooed Mexican boyfriend

Excuse me, racist much? The guy in question is a shit stain on humanity, but that has shit to do with Mexicans or tattoos for that matter.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago

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.

[-] Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org -1 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 41 minutes ago

But why? Also you realize Mexico is a country while Asia is a nondescript maybe continent that includes many different cultures.

My point is that being from a specific location doesn't apport anything to the rhetoric other than denigrate the people from that place. She had a boyfriend. Did he love her? Did he hurt her, was he abusive or the hero? Those are the real questions. Oh by the way he's 6' tall and drives a black Toyota doesn't help. Oh he's Mexican! Of course that also doesn't help answer the question. Not all Mexican 6'tall guys who drive Toyotas drive a truck or beat up their wife's or girlfriends. That's my point, it's just useless info that makes it sound like being Mexican suddenly makes you the bad guy.

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 points 5 hours ago

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.

[-] Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 1 points 3 hours ago

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.

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 3 hours ago

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?

[-] Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org -1 points 2 hours ago

You need to get over that word. I said that word once and you can't get over it. Get over it.

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 points 40 minutes ago

I wouldn't have to repeat my question if you didn't keep dodging and downplaying how weird that comment was.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

Which has nothing to do with him being Mexican, or having tattoos....

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