Dove Cameron Remembers Late Cameron Boyce on His Birthday: ‘Catch You in the Next Life’

Dove Cameron is remembering Cameron Boyce on what would’ve been his 26th birthday, posting an emotional tribute to her late Descendants co-star Wednesday (May 28).

Six years since the Jessie actor died suddenly after suffering an epileptic seizure in his sleep, the “Boyfriend” singer shared a carousel of photos with her friend and wrote on Instagram, “i still feel you all the time.”

“catch you in the next life,” she continued. “happy birthday. i love you.”

In one of the photos, a smiling Boyce wraps his arms around the Liv & Maddie alum while smiling wide; in another, they sit on the floor and pose with two other Descendants stars, Sofia Carson and Booboo Stewart. Cameron also shared a snap of the gun and rose tattoo on her wrist that she got in the late actor’s honor.

Carson also paid tribute to Boyce on Wednesday, sharing a black-and-white photo and writing on Instagram, “Keep dancing in heaven, my Cam. Earth could never be the same without you.”

Boyce was just 20 years old when he died in 2019, leaving the Disney community — and countless fans who watched him on projects such as Jessie and Bunk’d — in shock. At the time, a spokesperson confirmed that his seizure had been the “result of an ongoing medical condition for which he was being treated.”

Cameron and Boyce starred together in three Descendants movies between 2015 and 2019. The soundtrack for the first film debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

The Schmigadoon! actress has since pursued a solo music career, dropping her debut single “Bloodshot” in 2019. Her viral hit “Boyfriend” peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2023, and she is now fresh off the release of new singles “Too Much” and “French Girls,” the latter of which dropped earlier in May.

“There’s a huge intersection between pain, heartbreak, joy and camp and levity. And that’s where we found ourselves in ‘French Girls,’” Cameron recently told Billboard of the newer song. “The melodrama of being a muse for a sculptor or a painter. There’s something so painfully romantic and also constricting about that. In ‘French Girls,’ the thing that I was really obsessed with was this self-sacrificing mania about being a muse that is not healthy.”