Martin Short Opens Up on Daughter's Death, Frames Mental Illness as Disease

Katherine Short, age 42, died by suicide in February 2026, leaving behind family members including her father Martin Short and two brothers.

Martin Short, the beloved comedian and actor, has broken his silence about the February death of his daughter Katherine, who died by suicide at 42 after years of battling borderline personality disorder. Speaking on CBS Sunday Morning, Short chose not to frame her death in the language of shame or mystery, but in the language of medicine — comparing mental illness to cancer, and his daughter's struggle to that of any patient who fights a terminal disease for as long as they can. His willingness to name what happened, and why, places this private grief into a larger and still-evolving human con

Martin Short Opens Up on Daughter's Death, Frames Mental Illness as Disease

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