LOS ANGELES, July 2 -- The girl who voiced Lilo Pelekai - the Hawaiian child with the tourist-photograph collection and the alien named Stitch - died on June 16. Daveigh Chase was 35. She had been living without stable housing in Los Angeles in the months before her death, her mother has said, following a path that led from a 2016 motorcycle accident to a decade-long opioid addiction that preceded and, the county's medical examiner concluded, contributed to her end.

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's office confirmed Tuesday that Chase died of complications of AIDS, compounded by septic shock and meningitis. Chronic polysubstance use was listed as a contributing condition. The disclosure ended two weeks of public uncertainty about...