Catherine O'Hara's brother opens up on star's final days
Catherine O’Hara’s brother has opened up about his sister’s final days before her passing earlier this year.
Catherine, whose credits include Schitt’s Creek, Home Alone and Beetlejuice, passed away on January 30 following a brief illness. It is understood that she was diagnosed with cancer last year.
Tributes poured in from fans and friends of Catherine’s following her death, with her brother, Michael P. O’Hara, detailing her final days — saying that she wasn’t able to speak in her final moments.
Catherine O’Hara’s brother has opened up about his sister’s final days before her passing earlier this year. Pic: Mike Marsland/WireImage
‘She didn’t really want to talk on the phone,’ Michael said on his podcast, Dreams of Our Loved Ones. ‘And she didn’t live close by — she’s in Los Angeles.’
Despite her not being able to speak, making saying goodbye difficult, Michael said that he got a ‘sort of goodbye’ in his dreams, when he said that Catherine appeared in them.
‘I always cherish the times I can meet with a loved one in the dream state,’ he said. ‘Actually, oddly enough, I had a dream a few days before she died, my sister.’
Catherine passed away from a brief illness earlier this year, after she was diagnosed with rectal cancer last year. Pic: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images
‘And I was hugging her, which was really beautiful. And I guess it was sort of a goodbye.’
Michael added that, in his dream, Catherine was ‘very happy’ and renovating a home she had in ‘the other world,’ with him adding that he has come to visit her in his sleep.
‘She said “you can sleep here any time, Michael. You can come over and stay any time.’
Catherine’s brother had said that she visited him in her dreams shortly before she died. Pic: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
The LA County Coroner’s Office confirmed that Catherine died of a pulmonary embolism, with rectal cancer being an underlying cause.
According to TMZ, which obtained a copy of the death certificate, the star was cremated and her remains were returned to her husband, Robert ‘Bo’ Welch.
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