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- Cameron Boyce was remembered on the sixth anniversary of his death on July 6
- The actor’s Descendants costars Sofia Carson, Booboo Stewart and Sarah Jeffery paid tribute to him with social media tributes
- Cameron died at age 20 in July 2019 due to a seizure
Cameron Boyce lives on through his Descendants costars.
Sofia Carson, Booboo Stewart and Sarah Jeffery, who all starred opposite Cameron in the Disney Channel film series, remembered the actor on the sixth anniversary of his death on Sunday, July 6. (Boyce died at age 20 in July 2019 due to a seizure.)
Sharing a black and white throwback photo of herself, Cameron, Stewart and Dove Cameron, Carson, 32, captioned the image, “Our Angel. Forever.”
Stewart, 31, for his part, reposted Carson’s tribute on his Instagram Stories, while Jeffery, 29, reshared an old Instagram post of herself and Cameron from 2014 on her account.
“On a BC ferry headed to Victoria to shoot more of Descendants,” she wrote with the post. “Life is good. Miss you Cam.”
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Cameron, whose death by seizure was due to his epilepsy diagnosis, was an actor best known for his Disney roles.
He portrayed Cruella de Vil’s son in the Descendants TV movies, and he also starred in Jessie, which ran for four seasons on the Disney Channel and also starred Debby Ryan.
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Cameron began acting at an early age. He appeared in the 2008 horror film Mirrors alongside Kiefer Sutherland when he was 9.
The late star also appeared in Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2, playing one of Adam Sandler’s children.
Back in 2023, Cameron’s parents, Victor and Libby Boyce, opened up about their son on Taylor Lautner and his wife Tay Lautner’s The Squeeze podcast.
“There’s so much stuff that we didn’t know before he died,” Libby said, as Victor added that the condition Cameron died from, SUDEP — sudden unexpected death in epilepsy patients — was something they “had never heard of.”
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Pointing out that their son had suffered from only five seizures throughout his life, each one had happened in his sleep, and his parents thought that was a good thing.
“Everything that Cameron had in terms of his epilepsy was actually things that we thought were positive, which were actually negative,” Libby said. “I thought because he had them in his sleep that he was safe. But actually having them in your sleep is more common[ly] associated with people dying.”
The grieving parents eventually started The Cameron Boyce Foundation. “Our big message is about taking that diagnosis very seriously,” Libby explained, adding: “You have to give people more tools.”
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