Martin Short Explains Why He’s Never Been to Therapy for His Grief After Multiple Family Deaths
Content warning: This story discusses suicide.
Martin Short is detailing how he maintains his mental health amid tragedy.
The Only Murders in the Building actor shared that he’s never been to therapy to process his grief following the deaths of his brother and parents during his teenage years, nor has he received professional support for the loss of his wife Nancy Dolman or the recent passing of their daughter Katherine Short. Rather, he’s learned to cope in his own ways.
“I’ve never been in therapy. Never. Never,” Martin told IndieWire in a recent interview. “When my brother and parents died, and I was now in this big house with the housekeeper at 19 and 20, it was Hamilton, Ontario, 1970. So it wasn’t about therapy; it was about no one.”
“I didn’t know anyone,” he recalled. “In Hamilton, it’s just you. I biked all over the city. I’d bike up the hills and paint and write. I was the youngest of five, so now there’s four. But the [others] took over aggressively, nurtured and worried, and that’s how I continued.”
