Martin Short Delays Comedy Show Following Death of Daughter Katherine Short.
Content Advisory: Suicide is discussed in this narrative.
Martin Short is taking a temporary leave of absence from his job. The Only Murders in the Building star's forthcoming comedy event with Steve Martin was postponed hours after his representative informed news agencies that his daughter Katherine Short had passed away at the age of 42.
“Due to unforeseen circumstances, Steve Martin & Martin Short's show, originally scheduled for Friday, February 27th in Milwaukee, has been postponed,” on February 24, the Pabst Theater Group posted on their website. “Tickets will be honored for a future rescheduled date. We will be in contact with further news when it is available.”
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Katherine, the daughter of Martin and his late wife Nancy Dolman, died, the Inherent Vice actor's representative revealed earlier in the day with "profound grief."
“The Short family is devastated by this loss and asks for privacy at this time,” the representative made a remark. “Katherine was beloved by all and will be remembered for the light and joy she brought into the world.”
According to law enforcement officials who spoke to TMZ, Katherine died by apparent suicide. On February 24, the Los Angeles Police Department arrived at her house in Hollywood Hills.
Martin has not responded to requests for comment from news organizations.
Martin, who is also the father of Oliver Short, 39, and Henry Short, 36, with Nancy, discussed his grieving process more than ten years ago when his wife passed away in 2010 from ovarian cancer.
“No one doesn’t have loss. No one doesn’t have pain,” he informed Maclean’s Magazine in 2014. “You have to figure out—you know the sun will rise the next day, that the people closest to you will be preoccupied with the scratch on their car; that’s just the way life works.”
“If your natural orientation is to be happy, you have to then start developing tools to help you get back there,” Martin went on to say. “You can’t go through loss and just shuck it off the next day, cause then you’re not dealing with it. If you break your leg, you’re in a cast. There’s no getting around that.”
