Martin Short links wife’s last words to daughter’s death

Sixteen years after his wife died, Nancy Dolan, Martin Short is reflecting on her last words – and discovering their connection to the couple’s late daughter, Catherine.

“Martin, let me go,” Short, 76, told new york times In an interview published on Friday, May 15, Dolan recalled her last words to her husband as paramedics burst into their bedroom.

Dolan died in 2010 at the age of 58 after a battle with ovarian cancer. She and Short married in 1980.

in his Now After sitting down, Short compared Dolan’s death to Catherine. Died by suicide at the age of 42 February.

“Catherine said, ‘Dad, let me go,'” he continued. “I don’t think there’s any difference between mental illness as a disease and cancer as a disease. In some cases, both are terminal. And in some cases, both are survivable.”

Short added that losing a daughter is different from losing a wife.

“This is your child,” he said. “I’m trying to move towards the light.”

Short and Dolan are joined by Oliver, 40, and Henry, 36.

this Only murders in the building Star Breaking silence on Catherine’s death in a cbs sunday morning Interviewed earlier this week.

“This has been a nightmare for the family,” he said on Sunday, May 10, “but our understanding is that mental health and cancer, like my wife’s cancer, are illnesses, sometimes terminal. And my daughter battled extreme mental health, borderline personality disorder and other illnesses for a long time and tried her best until she couldn’t.”

Related: Why Martin Short’s daughter Catherine changed her name before her death

Martin Short’s daughter, Katherine Hartley Short, changed her name nearly 13 years before her death. According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly, Katherine filed to change her name to “Catherine Elizabeth Hartley” in October 2012. “My father is a public figure. I am a psychiatric social worker,” Catherine explained her reasoning in court (…)

short Reflecting on his multiple family deaths In his new Netflix documentary, Marty, life is short.. (In addition to Dolan and Catherine, the actor lost his brother David and parents Oliver and Charles in the eight years before he turned 21.)

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“What it developed in me was the ability to survive and process grief, and perspective on grief,” Short told cbs morning show Coping with these losses. “I think if you’ve been through that, it really doesn’t matter that the audience doesn’t like you anymore.”

Although Short’s longtime friend Lawrence Kasdan, who directed the documentary, suggested delaying the project after Katherine’s death, the comedian said he wanted to move forward.

“My gut instinct was the opposite,” Short explained Sunday. “Because it’s about love and loss and survival… I think we move forward. We have to find a way to survive grief without denying it or in any way diminishing its importance.”