Dove Cameron Shares Message of Positivity After Ex Ryan McCartan Makes Claim About Their Breakup

Dove Cameron is sticking to positivity after her ex-fiance Ryan McCartan took to Instagram and made claims about their breakup, which happened over three years ago.

If you weren’t already aware, Dove and Ryan, who worked together on the Disney Channel series Liv & Maddie, got engaged in April 2016 after dating for three years. They announced their split in October 2016.

Since the split, Dove has said that Ryan was “terrible” to her.

“A lot of what I went through in that first relationship, the very low-lows, I did not make public,” Dove previously told Seventeen. “I was under the impression that I had to make everything look perfect all the time and my partner definitely put that in my ear. People thought I was sharing loads, but I hardly shared anything.”

Now, Ryan is claiming that Dove cheated on her. When asked to reveal his “proudest” moment during an Instagram Q&A, he said, “Within two weeks, my fiancée cheated on and left me, I almost died from food poisoning, and Donald Trump was elected president. I truly didn’t think I would be able to make it through that part of my life. I’m proudest of the light that came from the darkness. And my ability to survive and turn the anger and sadness I had into positive life changes and a new way forward.”

Just hours later, Dove took to her Instagram Stories to share a message of positivity for 2020 instead of addressing the claim.

“It’s been years since I’ve felt this good, this capable, this strong and this connected, in general and in terms of my relationship with myself. I’ve been so disillusioned and lost, so dark and so sad, and I only now feel like I’m beginning to find the magic again,” Dove wrote on her story. “That place where I’m not afraid of what used to leave me frozen in agonizing fear, where I can finally feel safe to lean on only myself and be whole and complete within my own skin… I feel like I’m ready to start showing up for life again.”

You can read Dove‘s complete message to fans in the gallery!