Daveigh Chase shared the touching legacy she hoped to leave behind years before her death

Daveigh Chase shared that she wanted to alteration people’s lives, years earlier her tragic decease astatine property 35.

“I conscionable want to make thing that I emotion and group will respect,” nan “Lilo & Stitch” sound actress told Interview magazine backmost successful 2009.

“I want to do things that will alteration someone’s life, not thing they’ll hide astir tomorrow.”

She besides shared during nan little question and reply that it was a changeable of bad luck that landed her successful Hollywood successful nan first spot — her mother had been injured successful a car mishap successful 1998 successful Los Angeles, and been told she couldn’t thrust for six months.

So alternatively of returning location to Albany, Oregon aft their roadworthy trip, she began pursuing her dream of acting astatine nan property of 8.

She yet landed roles including nan sound of Lilo successful Disney’s beloved animated movie “Lilo & Stitch,” nan sound of Chihiro successful Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning “Spirited Away,” and kid scary villain Samara successful “The Ring” other Naomi Watts.

She’s besides appeared successful “Donnie Darko” arsenic nan sister of Jake Gyllenhaal’s title character, and arsenic nan underage woman of Harry Dean Stanton’s belief leader successful HBO’s “Big Love.”

A man who identified himself arsenic Chase’s boyfriend, Roy Hernandez, told TMZ connected Wednesday that nan character passed distant connected Tuesday astatine nan property of 35 pursuing a bout pinch meningitis, followed by sepsis.

The outlet reported that Chase had precocious been admitted to a Los Angeles infirmary for malnutrition.

Just anterior to nan actress’s death, Hernandez set up a GoFundMe successful her sanction — though The California Post reported connected Wednesday amid news of her decease that Chase’s longtime manager, John Ryan, called retired nan move.

“Apparently, a man claiming to beryllium her ‘boyfriend’ that nary of america friends aliases her family has heard of has group up a GoFundMe connected ‘her and her families behalf’ that he group her up arsenic nan organizer. I tin corroborate Daveigh has a spot relationship group up astatine SAG to screen each costs,” Ryan told The Post.

The outlet besides shared images from a video from precocious 2025, to which Ryan was alerted earlier attempting to find nan character and get her help.

The video — which has since been removed from societal media — depicted a frail Chase lying connected nan level of a trailer aliases shelter connected Los Angeles’ infamous Skid Row.

Meanwhile, connected societal media, Chase’s fans took nan comments thread of her last station — a pic of Chase posing adjacent to a unicorn balloon shared backmost successful 2017 — to pay their respects.

“RIP beautiful girl, you deserved truthful overmuch better, convey you for nan nostalgia, your typical words & voice, that molded these characters to beryllium thing truthful memorable successful our lives. You near an imprint connected each our hearts, God bless you, soar pinch nan angels 💔🕊️” 1 personification remarked.

Others shared GIFs from Chase’s best-known roles. One, featuring an image from “Lilo & Stitch,” quoted 1 of nan film’s astir memorable lines. “Ohana intends family. Family intends cipher gets near down aliases forgotten.”