Breaking It DownDove Cameron’s Dating History Is Full of Longtime Lovers: Everything We Know About Her Past Relationships

Ryan McCartan

Dove and Ryan were together for four years. While they were together, the two stars played the on-screen couple Maddie and Diggie on Liv and Maddie. During their time together, the couple formed a band called The Girl and the Dreamcatcher, and even got engaged! Dove opened up about the engagement during an interview with People in April 2016.

“It was very spur-of-the-moment. It was perfect. It was more romantic and bohemian than traditional,” she said of the proposal. “We were both very clear with each other that it was like, ‘I know you’re my person. You know you’re my person. There’s nobody else.’ Because we already knew we wanted to get married one day, I didn’t expect it to change anything. But ‘fiancé’ and ‘boyfriend and girlfriend’ is worlds apart. I literally feel like I’ve never been so calm before. I feel rooted to the ground. I feel good.”

In October 2016, they both took to Twitter and announced their split. “Dove has decided this relationship isn’t what she wants. We still love each other very much. Please be sensitive, as this is painful,” Ryan wrote. Dove added, “Thank you for your support and full hearts in this very intense and human time. There’s a lot of love between Ryan and I. Life is beautiful and long.”

Following the breakup, the former flames threw major shade at each other, but things between them seemed to be all good in April 2019 when Dove had some nice things to say about her ex-fiancé in an interview with Access at Disney Channel Fan Fest. “My first boyfriend ever I found through Liv and Maddie, and I’m so grateful for that experience and what he taught me,” she said.

Thomas Doherty

These two stars first got close after they appeared in Descendants 2 together and confirmed their relationship in February 2017. Dove got real about her first impression of Thomas to Seventeen Magazine in July 2019.

“I just thought he was, you know, kind of a playboy. I was like, ‘He’s way too mischievous and charismatic and good-looking to — this sounds awful, but to be good to me,’” she explained. “I never saw it ending well. I was like, ‘I’m going to steer clear of you, and avoid the biggest mistake of my life.’ And he tried to get me to pay attention to him by challenging me to a stare-off, not about who could blink first, but about who would look away first — who could withstand the eye contact. And we both like went through a range of emotions together. Like we’d be really happy and then really sad, and then we’d both start laughing at the same time. And then we both started crying, and he said to me — I’ll never forget it. We had barely met, and he was like, ‘I think I just fell in love with you.’”

She continued, “My relationship with Thomas has been different than anything I’ve ever experienced with another human right from the very start. I know this is cheesy, but honestly, right from the moment we met, it felt like the earth moved, for both of us. He told me he loved me within a week of meeting me, and has never taken a step back from that statement. He’s a pure soul. A well-intended, completely innocent source of care and generosity, humility and never-ending patience. I’ve never experienced an equality like we have, a real admission of who and what we are together and the guttural knowing that this is right. Thomas has been my rock. Every thought or feeling I have, no matter how strange or dark or heavy, he is a safe space for me, a never ending well of patience and generosity. He is my world.”

When talking with Entertainment Tonight in November 2019, Dove called Thomas “the one.” They celebrated their third anniversary in February 2020, but called it quits in October 2020. Dove took to social media in December 2020, and announced that the couple had split a few months earlier.

Damiano David

Dove and Måneskin lead singer, Damiano David, first sparked romance rumors in early November 2023, after she was spotted leaving his Måneskin concert in Brazil. The pair have since been spotted kissing and holding hands while at a beach in Sydney, Australia just a few weeks later by an Italian magazine.