5 February 2026
Dove Cameron was “celibate” 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 – but it took another year before they started dating.
Dove said on the Call Her Daddy podcast: “I was like, ‘This guy f****** hates me.’ I was gonna go on with my night. I met a bunch of people. Everybody’s like, ‘Congrats.’ I didn’t think about it.
“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, ‘F****** weird. Alright, bye.'”
Despite this, Dove and Damiano eventually started dating after meeting again at the 2023 VMAs.
She said: “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.
“I was like, ‘Yeah, I remember you. Like, you’re so different now.’ He was so friendly. And then he was like, ‘Do you wanna come to our show at Madison Square Garden?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah.’ And then we just started dating, and now we’re engaged. Like, it’s so, so innocent and simple.”
Dove admits that she was “celibate” and “depressed” before they started dating.
The singer – who announced her engagement to Damiano in January – said: “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.
“I was like, ‘Don’t touch me, don’t look at me, don’t come close to me, I’m not leaving my house.’ I was like dark night of the soul for a year.”
However, Dove’s attitude changed ahead of the 2023 VMAs.
She said: “I literally texted my friends and I was like, ‘I think I’m ready to date.’ One week later, he was like, ‘Nice to meet you.'”
