Laura Dern just admitted that it has been very difficult for her to cope with the death of her mother, Diane Ladd.
The 58-year-old star was heartbroken when her Oscar-nominated mother passed away last month at the age of 89.
Laura told me The Hollywood Reporter: “I’m just not there yet, I haven’t gotten myself into it yet.”
The Is this thing on? actress explained that the emotions surrounding her mother’s death feel “so compounded” following the death of director David Lynch — with whom she worked on the films Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart — in January “and other losses that have happened this year.”
Laura said, “But I will say that as I’m deep in it, looking at pictures and looking at things and trying to figure out how to honor her and him and all that’s to come, I feel really blessed by their legacy — holding on to the things they gave us in art and in friendship and in memories and in stories and in activism, in everything.”
Diane died just a few weeks before her 90th birthday and Laura paid tribute to her ‘hero mother’ on what would have been the milestone day on November 29.
