Martin Short Opens Up About Daughter Katherine's Death as 'Nightmare'

Martin Short, a comedian who has spent decades transforming personal sorrow into public laughter, has broken his silence about the death of his daughter Katherine — calling it, simply, a nightmare. His willingness to speak plainly about grief, without performance or deflection, places him in a long human tradition of those who have learned that some losses resist the consolations we usually reach for. Short, who had already buried his brother, mother, and father before the age of twenty-one, now faces a different order of loss — not those who came before him, but someone who was meant to come