In response to a Twitter user who asked whether the actress came up with her first name, Dove Cameron replied, "My father always called me dove. he took his own life when i was 15, i didn't get to say goodbye, so i changed it in honor of him." Her father, Philip Alan Hosterman, died just a few months before Cameron debuted on the Disney channel series "Liv and Maddie" as a teen.
"He took his own life, and he also was closeted, which we only found out after he died," the actress told Entertainment Weekly. "When I found that out, I was like, everything adds up. He was such a sensitive person. He had bursts of anger, but he was also beautiful and he designed jewelry and went to the Peace Corps." Cameron went on to say that she hopes to "write a movie about him one day, because my dad was just the most fascinating human being."
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