Like many of her Gen-Z peers, Dove Cameron has been particularly outspoken about her various struggles, whether personally or professionally. In August 2020, Cameron opened up to Story + Rain Magazine and said that, originally, she was looking forward to migrating to Hollywood, but her experience didn't live up to her expectations. "I opened my heart and all my ventricles, all of my sensitive spots, to this space that's the wild wild west in terms of what you're going to receive," Cameron told the publication. The "Descendants" star also shared that she dealt with anorexia and was involved in a "terrible" relationship. While she refrained from naming and shaming the guy she was talking about in this interview, the timing points towards Ryan McCartan.
According to Us Weekly, Cameron met McCartan while filming "Liv & Maddie," and the two got engaged in 2016. Unfortunately, the engagement was short lived, as Cameron called things off six months in. Later, McCartan took to his Instagram stories and implied, without naming Cameron, that she stepped out of their relationship. "Within two weeks, my fiancée cheated on and left me, I almost died from food poisoning, and Donald Trump was elected president," McCartan wrote. Cameron, however denied the accusations in a vague post of her own, reposting a quote that said, "When a toxic person can no longer control you, they will try to control how others see you."
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