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Dove Cameron Details Childhood Friend’s Murder in 'Call Her Daddy' Interview, Citing Lasting Trauma

She says the loss still shapes her sense of safety, relationships, mental health.

Overview

  • On the Feb. 4 episode, Cameron recounts learning at age 9 that her best friend Hayley was killed by her father and says the event "fissured" how she processes life.
  • She describes overhearing a call from Hayley’s preschool principal while home sick in third grade that told her parents Hayley and her sister Kelsey were gone.
  • Cameron recalls sensing a "dark energy" around Hayley’s father the prior summer and says her parents put her in therapy after the killings.
  • She links the childhood trauma to later panic attacks during her early Disney career and to past relationships she characterizes as "trauma bonds."
  • In the same interview, she says multiple devastating phone calls, including the one about her father’s death, left her with "major phone anxiety."