
Catherine O’Hara cracked a joke about ‘dying’ virtually a 12 months earlier than she handed away.
The movie legend’s demise was introduced on Friday (30 January), along with her representatives saying that she had suffered from a ‘temporary sickness’.
Reviews have since emerged claiming that O’Hara, 71, was rushed to hospital in a ‘critical situation’ within the hours prior.
She made her remaining public look in September final 12 months whereas attending the Emmy Awards, the place she was nominated for the gong for Excellent Supporting Actress In A Comedy Sequence.
O’Hara, who’s extensively identified for her roles in Residence Alone, Beetlejuice, and Schitt’s Creek, was within the operating for the award due to her comedic position as Patty Leigh within the hit Apple TV collection, The Studio.
She appeared alongside Seth Rogen, Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtz, and Chase Sui Wonders within the star-studded collection, which debuted final March.

Chatting with LADbible forward of its premiere, the Canadian appearing legend stated it was ‘significantly spectacular’ to observe Rogen work because the present’s author, director and govt producer, particularly since he additionally stars within the collection.
The pair bought alongside like a home on hearth each on and off set, and the Superbad star has since paid tribute to his late co-star, describing her as ‘the funniest particular person he’d ever had the pleasure of watching on display screen’.
Their chemistry was evident when the pair sat down for an interview with their The Studio co-stars in March final 12 months, as they riffed off one another in an interview about the potential for O’Hara’s demise.
Whereas the display screen stars have been chatting with Los Angeles Instances journalist Matt Brennan, the reporter requested whether or not the actors felt they’d ‘extra of a say, if not energy’ on movie units.
A lot to the amusement of Rogen, Hahn, Barinholtz and Sui Wonders, O’Hara then hilariously responded saying: “I’ve been handled that approach recently…am I dying or one thing?”
“That is how we needed to let you know,” Rogen quipped. “This man is definitely a physician. This can be a pretend interview.”
Footage of the interview has resurfaced within the wake of O’Hara’s passing, prompting social media customers to share their condolences for the Residence Alone actress within the feedback.
One stated: “She was such a beautiful actress – an incredible comic – so sorry,” whereas one other added: “Relaxation in peace. What a humorous girl. Liked her on Second Metropolis TV.”
This wasn’t the primary time that O’Hara made gentle of her mortality, as she joked that she ‘could not consider’ she was nonetheless alive in an interview with Elle Canada in August 2024.
“I’m fortunate [I get] to maintain doing issues like this at my age – I can’t consider it,” she instructed the publication.
“Over the previous few years, after I’ve gotten scared or nervous, or if I begin grousing about one thing, I’ve tried to actually follow turning it round and being grateful.

The Schitt’s Creek star added: “Like, ‘How fortunate are you proper now to be alive? After which to have this chance proper right here on this second?’
“I used to be nervous throughout this cowl photograph shoot [but] how loopy is it that at my age, I’m sporting these garments and I’m mendacity over this pool?”
She confessed that she did ‘assume’ about her age, whereas revealing why she determined to develop outdated gracefully.
“I really feel that now, tales about folks my age often need to do with demise and divorce and illness,” O’Hara continued. “So I’m actually lucky [to] have folks round me who respect growing older folks and who give me new experiences. I’d wish to assume that the sort of roles I’m attending to play now are roles that persons are attending to play in life.
“[In The Studio], I’m enjoying a studio head who turns into an unbiased producer – how stunning is it that somebody my age is doing this? It’s the best way it must be.”

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