Overview
- Short, in a CBS News Sunday Morning interview, spoke publicly for the first time about losing his daughter Katherine and called the experience a nightmare for his family.
- He said Katherine faced years of severe mental health struggles, including borderline personality disorder, and that she did all she could until she could no longer.
- Officials in Los Angeles ruled in February 2026 that Katherine died by suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and the family asked for privacy when confirming her death.
- Katherine was 42 and worked as a licensed clinical social worker after studying psychology at New York University and earning a master’s in social work at the University of Southern California.
- Short linked his grief to a push for openness around mental illness, describing his involvement with Bring Change to Mind and urging people not to hide the word suicide.