“Happy birthday to my hero, the most extraordinary person I have ever known, on what would be her 90th today,” Dern wrote Saturday on Instagram. “As an artist and human being, you were always loving, always dreaming, always creating, and ever in service for all. I love you, Mom.”
“She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created,” Dern wrote in a statement at the time. “We were blessed to have her. She is flying with her angels now.”
Diane Ladd and Laura Dern in 2020. (Getty) Getty
Ladd died of hypoxic respiratory failure, according to her death certificate, obtained by People. The shortage of oxygen in the blood is usually caused by underlying lung disease. The certificate noted she’d had longstanding interstitial lung disease, when lungs are compromised by scarring or other damage. Ladd had been diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in 2018.
Mother and daughter starred together in “Wild at Heart” and “Rambling Rose.” Ladd was also known for her turn in “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” as well as the television sitcom “Alice.”
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