Dove Cameron Says Early Disney Channel Years Were 'Best & Worst' Time of Her Life

Dove Cameron is looking back on the early days of her career.

The 24-year-old actress says she had some of the best and worst years of her life as she faced challenges and navigated the world of fame.

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“My earliest years in the industry were some of the best years of my life, while also being some of my worst and an unbelievable uphill battle. I definitely had a lot of fun, experimenting with who I was, what my abilities were, falling in love for the first time, and navigating this entirely new world that I was now, all of a sudden, involved in,” Dove said in an interview with Create & Cultivate.

She continued, “While this was happening, I was also dealing with the death of my father, severe anorexia and bulimia, anxiety relating to newfound fame and global attention, and what would eventually become an incredibly unhealthy relationship.”

“I think everything in those years, and every year leading up to present day, career or personal or both, has prepared me for my career and life now, as I am without a doubt, the strongest, most concentrated, and most unabashed that I have ever been in my life. It wasn’t all magic, but it does feel like it was all exactly how it needed to be to get me to be where I am now and the human that I have become,” Dove concluded.

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