Lucy Devine
The late Catherine O'Hara once revealed how she wanted to die, years before her death.
On Friday (January 30), O'Hara's management confirmed the star had passed away at her home in Los Angeles, following a brief illness. A cause of death has not yet been confirmed.
O'Hara's career began with the Canadian show, Second City Television, which earned her her first Emmy. She went on to star in movies including Beetlejuice, Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. She also played the fabulous Moira Rose in sitcom Schitt's Creek.
Over a decade ago, O'Hara spoke about the heart-wrenching way in which she would choose to die.
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O'Hara told Vanity Fair in 2013: “Laughing. Surrounded by my old grandchildren, who are telling me to ‘let go, already, Grandma!’”
She also spoke about reincarnation, adding: “I’ve got to believe God is into recycling. I’d like to come back in the body of a much more evolved person who has lovely, thick hair and skin that tans.”
O'Hara is survived by her husband, Bo Welch, and her two sons, Matthew and Luke.
Since the news of O'Hara's passing was announced, tributes have been flooding in for the star. Taking to Instagram, Home Alone co-star Macaulay Culkin wrote: "Mama. I thought we had time.
"I wanted more. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you but I had so much more to say.
"I love you.
"I’ll see you later."
Culkin shared two side-by-side photos with O'Hara alongside the post. In one image, the pair can be seen filming Home Alone, while a second, more recent photo shows the pair at a ceremony to unveil Culkin's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Pedro Pascal also paid tribute to O'Hara. Alongside a picture of them on The Last of Us set, Pascal penned on Instagram: "Oh, genius to be near you. Eternally grateful. There is less light in my world, this lucky world that had you, will keep you, always. Always. The one and ONLY #CatherineOHara."
O'Hara recently starred in Seth Rogen's The Studio, for which she received a Golden Globes nomination for Best Supporting Performance by a Female Actor.
Speaking after her death, Rogen said: “I thought she was the funniest person I’d ever had the pleasure of watching on screen. Home Alone was the movie that made me want to make movies.
“Getting to work with her was a true honour.
“She was hysterical, kind, intuitive, generous… she made me want to make our show good enough to be worthy of her presence in it. This is just devastating. We’re all lucky we got to live in a world with her in it."