Actress Catherine O’Hara’s Cause Of Death Released

The cause of the death of actress Catherine O’Hara has been revealed.

As the WLT Report covered earlier, the Emmy award-winning actress died at the end of January in a California hospital.

Now, O’Hara’s death certificate has been revealed and reveals that the award-winning actress died from a pulmonary embolism.

NBC News covered O’Hara’s cause of death in more detail and revealed what caused her pulomary embolism:

Emmy-winning actor Catherine O’Hara died from a blood clot in her lungs as a result of rectal cancer, according to her death certificate.

Her official cause of death was listed as a “pulmonary embolism” due to an underlying cause of cancer, sources confirmed to NBC Los Angeles on Monday.

O’Hara’s Los Angeles County death certificate also showed that she was cremated, The Associated Press reported. The oncologist who signed off on the certificate indicated that he had been treating O’Hara since March and last saw her Jan. 27.

O’Hara, the “Home Alone” and “Schitt’s Creek” star, died at a Santa Monica, California, hospital on Jan. 30 in what was, at the time, called a brief illness.