Katherine Short, a Los Angeles social worker and the daughter of actor and comedian Martin Short, has died. She was 42.<\/p>\n
Her death was confirmed by her family. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with profound grief that we confirm the passing of Katherine Hartley Short,\u201d the family said in a statement. \u201cThe Short family is devastated by this loss and asks for privacy at this time. Katherine was beloved by all and will be remembered for the light and joy she brought into the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to Katherine Short\u2019s Hollywood Hills home on Monday at about 6 p.m. Paramedics pronounced her dead shortly after. A law enforcement source told The Times that she died by apparent suicide. <\/p>\n
After news broke of his daughter\u2019s death, Martin Short postponed a trio of shows on his joint comedy tour with Steve Martin. <\/p>\n
Milwaukee\u2019s Miller High Life Theatre, the venue that was slated to host the duo Friday, in a notice on its website<\/a> attributed the postponement to \u201cunforeseen circumstances.\u201d A new show date wasn\u2019t given, but the venue said tickets will be honored for a future date. <\/p>\n The \u201cOnly Murders in the Building\u201d co-stars\u2019 Feb. 28 shows at Minneapolis\u2019 Orpheum Theatre were also postponed, per the venue\u2019s website<\/a>. The next scheduled tour date<\/a> without a postponement notice is on March 13 in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n Katherine Short, who obtained a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology and gender studies from NYU in 2006 and a master\u2019s degree in social work from USC in 2010, operated a private practice and worked part-time at psychiatry-led outpatient clinic Amae Health, according to People<\/a>. She was also involved with the charity Bring Change 2 Mind, whose mission is to end the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness. <\/p>\n She was the eldest of three children Martin Short adopted with his wife, actor Nancy Dolman, who died of ovarian cancer in 2010. The couple met in the early 1970s while working on the Toronto production of the rock musical \u201cGodspell.\u201d They married in 1980. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been asked to write books over the years,\u201d Martin Short told The Times<\/a> in a 2014 interview at his Pacific Palisades home. \u201cI knew it had to be something more important that just anecdotes. After my wife died, I realized we all go through this and we wake up the next day whether we think the world should stop or not \u2014 it doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n That year, Martin Short published his memoir, \u201cI Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend,\u201d which he dedicated to his children. <\/p>\n Katherine Short\u2019s death comes less than a month after actor Catherine O\u2019Hara, a close friend and longtime collaborator of Martin Short\u2019s, died of a pulmonary embolism<\/a>. O\u2019Hara had also been fighting a private battle with rectal cancer. <\/p>\n Martin Short and Martin paid tribute to O\u2019Hara<\/a> during a recent stop on their joint comedy tour. Recalling meeting O\u2019Hara when she was 18, Martin Short said, \u201cIn all these years later, she has been the greatest, most brilliant, kindest, sweetest angel.\u201d<\/p>\n Martin Short is up for an Actor Award<\/a> this Sunday for actor in a comedy series for his performance as Oliver Putnam in \u201cOnly Murders in the Building.\u201d The Hulu show, which co-stars Martin and Selena Gomez, is also nominated in the ensemble category. <\/p>\n O\u2019Hara is nominated as well for her portrayal of hardened Hollywood veteran Patty Leigh in entertainment industry satire \u201cThe Studio,\u201d which earned five total nominations. <\/p>\n Suicide prevention and crisis counseling resources<\/p>\n If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, seek help from a professional and call 9-8-8. The United States\u2019 first nationwide three-digit mental health crisis hotline 988 will connect callers with trained mental health counselors. Text \u201cHOME\u201d to 741741 in the U.S. and Canada to reach the Crisis Text Line<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katherine Short, a Los Angeles social worker and the daughter of actor and comedian Martin Short, has died.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2754,626,6491,162045,162041,96,19309,162044,162043,4960,75117,161576,2811,162042,4238,17836,5134,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-446453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-actor","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-crisis-text-line","12":"tag-daughter-katherine-short","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-joy","15":"tag-l-a-social-worker","16":"tag-law-enforcement-source","17":"tag-light","18":"tag-martin-short","19":"tag-passing","20":"tag-privacy","21":"tag-short-family","22":"tag-time","23":"tag-times","24":"tag-u-s","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}