Actress Catherine O’Hara was taken to a Los Angeles hospital in “serious” condition and later died, Page Six has learned.
Paramedics were called to the “Schitt’s Creek” star’s Brentwood home for medical assistance at 4:48 a.m. Friday, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson said.
The patient was transported in a “serious condition”.
The cause of O’Hara’s death is not yet known, but her agency, Creative Artists Agency, said the legendary actress passed away “after a brief illness.”
Her representative did not provide further details.
But O’Hara suffered from inversion syndrome, an extremely rare condition in which all organs appear on the opposite side of the body from normal people.
For example, her liver appeared on the left side, and her heart on the right side.
Although this condition is usually harmless, symptoms can present differently in people with mirrored organs, which can make future complications more difficult to diagnose.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, about 1 in 10,000 people are diagnosed with reverse sitting, and reverse sitting is more common in men.
Enrique Iglesias and Donny Osmond also live with the condition.
It is not clear whether the symptoms are related to O’Hara’s death.
She is survived by her husband of 33 years, Bob Welch, and two sons, Matthew (31) and Luke (29).
O’Hara began her career in 1974 at Second City, a performance art theater in her hometown of Toronto, Canada.
However, she shot to fame after playing the role of Delia Dietz in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice.
