Daveigh Chase’s family accuses star’s boyfriend of pocketing GoFundMe

The family of “Lilo & Stitch” star Daveigh Chase has claimed her boyfriend is capitalizing off a GoFundMe after he announced she had died earlier this week.

Chase’s relatives said the fundraiser is unnecessary because they have “plenty of means” to take care of the child actress’ funeral arrangements, agent and longtime friend John Ryan told The California Post.

Roy Hernandez said he set up the fundraiser for Chase after revealing she had died in hospital following a battle with meningitis.

But her family has separated themselves from the fundraiser, saying they have no involvement and claiming Hernandez is using it for his own benefit.

Ryan said: “John [Schwallier] is next of kin and never signed any paperwork over to this so-called boyfriend. Daveigh’s estate has plenty of means to pay for the cremation.

“This so-called ‘boyfriend’ that none of her friends or family have heard of has started a GoFundMe under Daveigh’s name.

“That GoFundMe is not going toward ANY expenses for Daveigh. Myself, her father, her uncle and all of us close friends who knew her for decades are encouraging people not to donate to this page.”

The family has reported the fundraiser to the platform, but it remains up as of Thursday morning.

The GoFundMe has received more than $4,000 in donations. Hernandez’s name is in the URL for the profile under her name. The profile highlights Chase as “Daveigh Chase original voice of lilo in ‘Lilo and stitch.’”

Under the “what they care about” section, it says: “I hope I made to a lot of people happy as Lilo now times goes on and life hit me with a truck now I hope i helped your childhood now I need help.”

Before the most recent fundraiser, Hernandez started two others in Chase’s name. Neither gained any traction, but features different wording highlighting key details in their relationship.

In one, he claims Chase “finally agreed” to go to the hospital when she started losing weight. He said the doctors told her the medicine “wasn’t working” and that “she is passing away.”

“Despite everything, Daveigh wants to spend her remaining time with me, comfortable and together, rather than in a hospital,” he writes. He says the funds will be used to “get a place where we can be together and comfortable, giving her the chance to spend her time surrounded by love.”

In the other GoFundMe, Hernandez writes that Chase met her while homeless and left the entertainment industry “because of medical issues.”

“I helped her find a safe place to sleep and feel secure. We would spend hours together, talking and dreaming about the future,” he wrote.

Hernandez claimed that one of Chase’s “biggest wishes” was to take him to a redwood forest, where he’s never been.

“She wanted to show me the beauty of nature and share that experience with me. I finally made plans for us to go, but now, because she’s so sick, we can’t,” he wrote.

A video taken months before her passing showed Chase in a horrible state, looking extremely thin on the floor of what looked like a tent on Skid Row. She struggled with addiction in her final months.

She was hospitalized on June 7, her father, John, told The Post, at Los Angeles General Medical Center.

He learned she was near-death in the hospital on Tuesday and drove to her from Las Vegas. As he arrived, she was dead.

John quickly grew suspicious of Hernandez and plans to call the Los Angeles Police Department because he felt Hernandez wanted Chase’s money.

Her manager is similarly suspicious after Chase was admitted to the hospital severely underweight.

“This guys trying to make it look like a Romeo and Juliet situation to benefit his own pockets,” he claimed. Hernandez told TMZ on Wednesday that it is “100 percent” false to suggest the GoFundMe is illegitimate.

The former actor, who also played Samara Morgan in “The Ring,” died with millions of dollars in unclaimed residual checks waiting for her. Her manager of more than a decade said she was “too far gone” to claim the checks.

Ryan tried to get her back on her feet with the help of a private investigator, but failed to find her before it was too late.

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