Martin Short Breaks Silence on 42-Year-Old Daughter's Suicide, Urges Mental Health Openness
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Updated · HuffPost · May 10
Martin Short Breaks Silence on 42-Year-Old Daughter's Suicide, Urges Mental Health Openness
3 articles · Updated · HuffPost · May 10
Summary
Martin Short gave his first on-camera interview since daughter Katherine Hartley Short died by suicide in February at 42, calling the loss "a nightmare for the family."
On CBS News Sunday Morning, Short said Katherine had long battled borderline personality disorder and other severe mental health issues, framing mental illness like cancer as a disease that can become terminal.
Short said his daughter and his late wife Nancy Dolman, who died of ovarian cancer in 2010, shared similar final words: "Dad, let me go" and "Mart, let me go."
Bring Change to Mind, the Glenn Close-founded nonprofit that Katherine worked with, is now part of Short's effort to push mental health and suicide "out of the shadows."
Ahead of his Netflix documentary Martin, Life is Short, Short said he rejected delaying the release after Katherine's death, arguing its themes of love, loss and survival should stand.