{"id":2274696,"date":"2026-02-09T20:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2274696"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:50:09","slug":"catherine-oharas-cause-of-death-revealed-as-pulmonary-embolism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/catherine-oharas-cause-of-death-revealed-as-pulmonary-embolism\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine O\u2019Hara\u2019s Cause of Death Revealed as Pulmonary Embolism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Catherine O\u2019Hara<\/a>\u2019s death was caused by a pulmonary embolism, with an underlying diagnosis of rectal cancer, according to reports.<\/p>\n

The comedy icon and \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek<\/a>\u201d Emmy winner died at the age of 71 in Los Angeles on Jan. 30. Previously, O\u2019Hara\u2019s talent agency told TheWrap<\/a> she died \u201cfollowing a brief illness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are saddened to announce the passing of Catherine O\u2019Hara,\u201dCreative Artists Agency (CAA<\/a>) said in a statement at the time. Her death certificate further states the star was cremated and that her husband Robert \u201cBo\u201d Welch has her remains, per TMZ.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Hara was born on March 4, 1954, and grew up in Canada\u2019s popular cities of Toronto and Ontario.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catherine O\u2019Hara\u2019s death was caused by a pulmonary embolism, with an underlying diagnosis of rectal cancer, according to reports. The comedy icon and \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek\u201d Emmy winner died at the age of 71 in Los Angeles on Jan. 30. Previously, O\u2019Hara\u2019s talent agency told TheWrap she died \u201cfollowing a brief illness.\u201d \u201cWe are saddened to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2274697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2274696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Catherine-OHaras-Cause-of-Death-Revealed-as-Pulmonary-Embolism.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274698,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274696\/revisions\/2274698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}