Overview
- Short’s career-spanning film, Marty, Life Is Short, reaches Netflix on Tuesday, May 12, with dedications that frame his recent losses.
- In his first TV interview since February, aired Sunday on CBS News Sunday Morning, he called daughter Katherine’s death “a nightmare for the family.”
- Short said Katherine “fought for a long time” with severe mental-health challenges including borderline personality disorder and asked viewers to see mental illness as a disease.
- Los Angeles authorities confirmed she died by suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot, and a county document reported her remains were cremated.
- Katherine, 42, was a licensed clinical social worker and mental-health advocate, and Short says he is working with Bring Change to Mind as he processes a cluster of recent deaths among close friends and family.