Daveigh Chase's Mother Reveals Addiction Struggle Led to 'Lilo & Stitch' Star's Death at 35

Daveigh Chase, who gave voice to beloved characters in childhood and haunted audiences in horror, died at thirty-five after a decade of quiet disappearance from the people who loved her. Her mother traced the unraveling to a back injury that opened a door to addiction, and addiction that closed the door on family for ten years. Her story sits at the intersection of two familiar human vulnerabilities — the particular dislocation of those who live their childhoods in public, and the terrible logic by which physical pain can become the first step in a long estrangement from life itself.