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Laura Dern announced the death of her mother, Hollywood icon Diane Ladd, at age 89. “My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother, Diane Ladd, passed with me beside her this morning, at her home in Ojai, Ca,” Dern, 58, wrote in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on Monday, November 3. The statement continued, “She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created. We were blessed to have her. She is flying with her angels now.” A cause of death was not immediately revealed. Ladd shared Laura with Bruce Dern, to whom she was married from 1960 to 1969. The former couple also shared a daughter named Diane, who died at 18 months after a drowning accident. Laura has been open about her mother’s health over the years. “She was exposed to pesticides being sprayed in the neighborhood and was not notified and realized that she had scarring on her lungs,” Laura said during a Today appearance in April 2023. “And they said, ‘If you can get her walking, expand her lung capacity, maybe it will help.’” More to come…
