Actress Laura Dern posted a bittersweet tribute to late mum Diane Ladd on what would have been her 90th birthday. Photos: Laura Dern/Instagram
Actress Laura Dern posted a bittersweet tribute to late mum Diane Ladd on what would have been her 90th birthday.
“Happy birthday to my hero, the most extraordinary person I have ever known, on what would be her 90th today,” Dern wrote Saturday (Nov 30) on Instagram. “As an artist and human being, you were always loving, always dreaming, always creating, and ever in service for all. I love you, Mom.”
The three-time Oscar and Emmy nominee died Nov 3 at age 89, with Dern by her side.
“She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created,” Dern wrote in a statement at the time. “We were blessed to have her. She is flying with her angels now.”
Ladd died of hypoxic respiratory failure, according to her death certificate, obtained by People.
The shortage of oxygen in the blood is usually caused by underlying lung disease. The certificate noted she’d had longstanding interstitial lung disease, when lungs are compromised by scarring or other damage.
Ladd had been diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in 2018.
Mother and daughter starred together in Wild At Heart and Rambling Rose. Ladd was also known for her turn in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore as well as the television sitcom Alice.
The pair had grown closer after Ladd’s 2018 diagnosis and penned a memoir together in 2023, Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother And Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love, detailing their deepening relationship. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
