Martin Short is taking a temporary step away from his work, as hours after E! News confirmed through his representative that his daughter, Katherine Short, had passed away at the age of 42, his upcoming comedy show alongside Steve Martin has been postponed.
The Pabst Theater Group announced on their website on Feb. 24, "Due to unforeseen circumstances, Steve Martin & Martin Short's show, originally scheduled for Friday, February 27th in Milwaukee, has been postponed. Tickets will be honored for a future rescheduled date. We will be in contact with further news when it becomes available."
Earlier in the day, the Inherent Vice actor's representative shared with "profound grief" that Katherine—the daughter of Martin and his late wife, Nancy Dolman—had passed away. "The Short family is devastated by this loss and asks for privacy at this time," the statement read. "Katherine was beloved by all and will be remembered for the light and joy she brought into the world."
According to law enforcement sources, Katherine died by apparent suicide. The Los Angeles Police Department responded to her Hollywood Hills home on Feb. 24.
Over a decade earlier, Martin—who also has sons Oliver Short, 39, and Henry Short, 36, with Nancy—shared his perspective on grief following the 2010 death of his wife after her battle with ovarian cancer. "No one doesn't have loss. No one doesn't have pain," he told Maclean's Magazine in 2014. "You have to figure out—you know the sun will rise the next day, that the people closest to you will be preoccupied with the scratch on their car; that's just the way life works."
"If your natural orientation is to be happy, you have to then start developing tools to help you get back there," Martin added. "You can't go through loss and just shuck it off the next day; then you're not dealing with it. If you break your leg, you're in a cast. There's no getting around that."
