{"id":387803,"date":"2025-11-18T15:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/387803\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:05:12","slug":"diane-ladds-cause-of-death-revealed-after-academy-award-nominee-dead-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/387803\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane Ladd’s cause of death revealed after Academy Award-nominee dead at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diane Ladd\u2019s cause of death <\/a>was acute on chronic hypoxic respiratory failure, PEOPLE <\/a>reported Monday.<\/p>\n

The Academy Award-nominated actress died Nov. 3, her daughter Laura Dern announced.<\/p>\n

On Monday, PEOPLE obtained a death certificate<\/a>, which notes notes she had interstitial lung disease, which had been going on for years. Esophageal dysmotility was listed as another significant contributing condition. <\/p>\n

Dern released a statement earlier this month, announcing the death.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother passed with me beside her this morning at her home in Ojai, California,\u201d Dern said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cShe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ladd\u2019s breakout role came as Flo, blunt waitress, in Martin Scorsese\u2018s 1974 movie \u201cAlice Doesn\u2019t Live Here Anymore.\u201d The role earned her an Academy Award nomination. Oscar nominations also came with her roles in She also received supporting actress nods in the early 1990s for David Lynch\u2019s \u201cWild at Heart\u201d and Martha Coolidge\u2019s \u201cRambling Rose,\u201d both of which co-starred Dern.<\/p>\n

Per the Cleveland Clinic<\/a>, hypoxic respiratory failure occurs when there isn\u2019t enough oxygen in the blood, which is often caused by a lung condition.<\/p>\n

A native of Laurel, Mississippi, Ladd was born Rose Diane Ladner and was apparently destined to stand out. In her 2006 memoir, \u201cSpiraling Through the School of Life,\u201d she remembered being told by her great-grandmother that she would one day in \u201cfront of a screen\u201d and would \u201ccommand\u201d her own audiences. Before \u201cAlice Doesn\u2019t Live Here Anymore,\u201d she had been working in television since the 1950s, when she was in her early 20s, with shows including \u201cPerry Mason,\u201d \u201cGunsmoke\u201d and \u201cThe Big Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the mid-1970s, she had lived out her fate well enough to tell The New York Times that no longer denied herself the right to call herself great.<\/p>\n

Ladd was married three times, and divorced twice \u2014 from Bruce Dern and from William A. Shea, Jr. In 1976, around the time her second marriage ended, she told the Times that neither of her husbands knew \u201chow to show love.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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