{"id":239623,"date":"2026-05-11T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/martin-short-breaks-silence-about-daughters-suicide-a-nightmare-for-the-family\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:34:07","slug":"martin-short-breaks-silence-about-daughters-suicide-a-nightmare-for-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/martin-short-breaks-silence-about-daughters-suicide-a-nightmare-for-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Short Breaks Silence About Daughter&#8217;s Suicide: &#8216;A Nightmare For the Family&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Martin Short is opening up about an unimaginable loss.<\/p>\n<p>In his first public comments since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/02\/katherine-short-daughter-of-martin-short-dead-by-suicide-at-42\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the death of his daughter, Katherine Short<\/a>, the beloved comedian is speaking candidly about grief, mental illness, and the heartbreak his family has endured in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>CBS News Sunday Morning<\/em>, Short described Katherine\u2019s death in devastatingly honest terms.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2275536826-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Short speaks onstage during the Tribute of Catherine O'Hara presented by Netflix Is A Joke Festival at The Beverly Hills Hotel on May 10, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. \" class=\"wp-image-554666 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2275536826-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2275536826-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2275536826-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2275536826-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2275536826-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2275536826-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2275536826-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2275536826-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Martin Short speaks onstage during the Tribute of Catherine O\u2019Hara presented by Netflix Is A Joke Festival at The Beverly Hills Hotel on May 10, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Emma McIntyre\/Getty Images for Netflix)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a nightmare for the family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine, the eldest of the three children Short shared with his late wife, Nancy Dolman, died in February at age 42. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner confirmed that she died by suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than shy away from the difficult conversation, Short spoke openly about the reality of mental illness and the long struggle his daughter faced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe understanding [is] that mental health and cancer, like my wife\u2019s, are both diseases, and sometimes with diseases they are terminal,\u201d he explained. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd my daughter fought for a long time with extreme mental health, borderline personality disorder, other things, and did the best she could, until she couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That perspective comes from experience.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Martin Short: Facing tragedy with joy\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EekxjuyJUuc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Short lost his wife, Nancy Dolman, to ovarian cancer in 2010, and during the interview he reflected on parallels between the two devastating losses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, Nan\u2019s last words to me were, \u2018Martin, let me go,\u2019\u201d he recalled. \u201cAnd what [Katherine] was just saying [was], \u2018Dad, let me go.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Short also said the tragedy has strengthened his desire to change how mental illness is discussed publicly.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that he has \u201ca deep desire\u201d to take \u201cmental health out of the shadows\u201d so people are not \u201cashamed\u201d to talk about it. He added: \u201cNot hiding from the word suicide, but accepting that this can be the last stage of an illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actor, who has endured more than his share of personal loss over the years, also reflected on how overwhelming the past several months have been.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s staggering,\u201d he said, before adding: \u201cYou just have to breathe in, breathe out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite largely staying out of the spotlight, Katherine built a career helping others. She earned degrees in psychology and social work and later worked as a licensed clinical social worker in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Short appears focused on honoring his daughter\u2019s memory by speaking openly \u2014 even through immense grief \u2014 about the realities of mental illness and the need for compassion.<\/p>\n<p>Martin is currently promoting a new biographical documentary, titled <em>Marty, Life Is Short<\/em>, which will be available on Netflix beginning May 12.<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available by calling or texting 988 in the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/05\/martin-short-breaks-silence-about-daughters-suicide-a-nightmare-for-the-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Martin Short is opening up about an unimaginable loss. In his first public comments since the death of his daughter, Katherine Short, the beloved comedian is speaking candidly about grief, mental illness, and the heartbreak his family has endured in recent months. Speaking to CBS News Sunday Morning, Short described Katherine\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-239623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}