Cameron Boyce’s Dad and mom Recall Remaining Moments Earlier than His Sudden Dying Throughout First Sit-Down Interview

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It was purported to be a night like every other.

In early July, Victor and Libby Boyce went out to eat with their son Cameron Boyce. “It was a totally regular, lovely household night time out to dinner,” Victor recalled to Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts. However, the next day, on July sixth, the skyrocketing Disney star had handed away at age 20.

“There was no indication that something was improper,” his dad mentioned. “I imply, there was no option to know in hours my son could be lifeless. It was simply staggeringly loopy and horrible. We have been texting that night time.”

Following the tragic occasion, the household revealed that Cameron skilled a seizure in his sleep. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner later confirmed that the Descendants star suffered a “sudden sudden dying in epilepsy.”

Initially, his medical situation was saved non-public. In spite of everything, “he did not need his epilepsy to outline him,” mother Libby advised Roberts throughout their first sit-down interview. “And it did not.”

Fairly, Cameron’s legacy is one crammed with pleasure.

“He cherished life,” Libby recalled. “He was in a spot the place he was actually comfortable. I imply, Cameron was all the time comfortable, by no means a detrimental factor got here out of his mouth. By no means. However he was simply actually discovering his groove.” Chimed in Victor, “He was transitioning from being a child to being a younger grownup.”

He was, certainly, making a reputation for himself—and leaving his mark on the world.

“He was moving into the charity stuff, actually moving into what he needed to do together with his voice, which is what we all the time advised him to do,” Libby continued. “Use your voice, use it to make optimistic on the planet. And that is what he was beginning to do.”

Now, to honor their late son, they’ve launched The Cameron Boyce Basis. The group, based on its web site, goals to offer “younger folks creative and inventive retailers as options to violence and negativity and makes use of sources and philanthropy to optimistic change on the planet.”

The total interview with Victor and Libby will air on Good Morning America on Thursday, August 15.