Academy Award-nominated actress Diane Ladd’s cause of death revealed as acute on chronic hypoxic respiratory failure two weeks after she died at age 89.
Diane Ladd’s cause of death has been revealed two weeks after the Academy Award-nominated actress passed away at the age of 89.
On Monday, People magazine obtained a death certificate that stated Ladd died from acute on chronic hypoxic respiratory failure.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, respiratory failure occurs when the lungs can’t properly exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide — and in «acute on chronic» cases, this means a sudden worsening of an existing long-term breathing problem.
The conditions leading to the actress’s death included an interstitial lung disease that had been progressing for years, with esophageal dysmotility listed as another significant contributing factor. Interstitial lung disease is a long-term condition that causes lung scarring while esophageal dysmotility affects the movement of the esophagus.
Ladd was cremated on Nov. 10, per the death certificate.
On Nov. 3, Ladd’s daughter Laura Dern announced her mother’s death in a statement to Fox News Digital.
«My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother passed with me beside her this morning at her home in Ojai, California», Dern wrote.
