Overview
- The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner identified a pulmonary embolism as the immediate cause of death with rectal cancer listed as an underlying condition.
- TMZ, citing her death certificate, reported she was cremated and her ashes were given to her husband, Robert “Bo” Welch.
- The Los Angeles Fire Department said responders went to her Brentwood home around 5 a.m. on Jan. 30, transported her in serious condition, and she was pronounced dead at a hospital hours later.
- Initial public notices described a brief illness without medical details before the official finding was released.
- O’Hara, 71, was celebrated for Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek, had publicly discussed living with dextrocardia with situs inversus, and is survived by Welch and their sons, Luke and Matthew.