{"id":220865,"date":"2026-02-05T02:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/dove-cameron-was-celibate-before-meeting-damiano-david\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T02:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:01:13","slug":"dove-cameron-was-celibate-before-meeting-damiano-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/dove-cameron-was-celibate-before-meeting-damiano-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Dove Cameron &#8216;was celibate before meeting Damiano David&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-02-05\" datetime=\"1770256873\" pubdate=\"\">5 February 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/dove-cameron\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,dove-cameron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dove Cameron<\/a> was &#8220;celibate&#8221; before meeting her fiance.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Dove Cameron is engaged to Damiano David<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old star first met Damiano David at the MTV VMAs back in 2022 &#8211; but it took another year before they started dating.<\/p>\n<p>Dove said on the Call Her Daddy podcast: &#8220;I was like, \u2018This guy f****** hates me.\u2019 I was gonna go on with my night. I met a bunch of people. Everybody&#8217;s like, \u2018Congrats.\u2019 I didn&#8217;t think about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Later I learned he was just, like, in a really bad place. It had nothing to do with me. But I took it personally, and I was like, &#8216;F****** weird. Alright, bye.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Dove and Damiano eventually started dating after meeting again at the 2023 VMAs.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;We had a reason to talk. He was single, and I was single, and he was in a better place and I was in a better place.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I was like, &#8216;Yeah, I remember you. Like, you&#8217;re so different now.&#8217; He was so friendly. And then he was like, &#8216;Do you wanna come to our show at Madison Square Garden?&#8217; And I was like, &#8216;Yeah.&#8217; And then we just started dating, and now we&#8217;re engaged. Like, it&#8217;s so, so innocent and simple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nDove admits that she was &#8220;celibate&#8221; and &#8220;depressed&#8221; before they started dating.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe singer &#8211; who announced her engagement to Damiano in January &#8211; said: &#8220;If I had met him before I did in a way where he was interested in me and there was an opportunity for us to be dating, I would not have been ready because I was so depressed. I was, like, celibate.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I was like, \u2018Don&#8217;t touch me, don&#8217;t look at me, don&#8217;t come close to me, I&#8217;m not leaving my house.\u2019 I was like dark night of the soul for a year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, Dove&#8217;s attitude changed ahead of the 2023 VMAs.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;I literally texted my friends and I was like, \u2018I think I&#8217;m ready to date.\u2019 One week later, he was like, \u2018Nice to meet you.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/dove-cameron-celibate-meeting-damiano-david-1437181.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 February 2026 Dove Cameron was &#8220;celibate&#8221; before meeting her fiance. Dove Cameron is engaged to Damiano David The 30-year-old star first met Damiano David at the MTV VMAs back in 2022 &#8211; but it took another year before they started dating. Dove said on the Call Her Daddy podcast: &#8220;I was like, \u2018This guy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11696,1578],"class_list":{"0":"post-220865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-damiano-david","9":"tag-dove-cameron"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}