Catherine O'Hara's brother says actress 'wasn't talking much in the end,' said goodbye to him in a dream
Catherine O'Hara's brother says actress 'wasn't talking much in the end,' said goodbye to him in a dream
Mekishana PierreTue, April 7, 2026 at 5:19 PM UTC
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Catherine O'Hara attends the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 19, 2020Credit: Steve Granitz/WireImage
Catherine O'Hara's brother Michael P. O'Hara is sharing some insight into the "sort of goodbye" he shared with his sister before her death in January.
During the first episode of season 3 of his podcast Dreams of Our Loved Ones, Michael looks back on a dream he had in which he was visited by his sister shortly before her death on Jan. 28. While sharing with his listeners that he recently had a "very unexpected and very, very sad" death in the family, Michael recalled the dream that came to him "days or a few days before she died."
"I always cherish the times I can meet with a loved one in the dream state," Michael began. "And I was hugging her, which was really beautiful. And I guess it was sort of a goodbye."
Catherine O'Hara attends the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 05, 2025Credit: Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty
The dream served as their farewell because, as the podcast host shared, Catherine "wasn't talking much in the end" before her death. "She didn't really want to talk on the phone. And she didn't live close by, she's in Los Angeles," he explained.
The dream visitation didn't end there, according to Michael. "Since then, I've had a lovely dream where I was visiting her, and she was in a new house and it was being renovated and she was really busy choosing furniture and couches," he told listeners. "And she said, 'You can sleep here anytime, Michael. You can come over and stay anytime.'"
"And it reminded me of when I was when she was in Second City Television and I was apprenticing at the Windsor Arms Hotel," he continued. "I would go over and sleep over at her place some nights because she had an extra bedroom. Yeah, pretty cool. But yeah, it was beautiful. She was just so happy and very busy in the other world that she's now in, but yeah, it's beautiful."
Michael ended the podcast telling his listeners that the bittersweetness of dream visitations was that it helped people stay connected with their "deceased loved ones."
"We're all interconnected," he added. "And the love, you know, continues no matter what. They're always with us."
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Since Catherine's death, her peers and celebrity fans have shared numerous tributes to her memory.
Dan Levy, who co-created and starred on the award-winning series Schitt’s Creek alongside O'Hara, recently remembered his beloved costar in an emotional interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
"It's a collective loss. She was the greatest. She's irreplaceable. I think the great comfort for me has just been to see how loved she was. The outpouring — everyone felt like they kind of knew her," he said.
Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Annie Murphy, and Daniel Levy on 'Schitt's Creek'Credit: Pop TV
During a recent visit to Schitt's Creek shooting location Goodwood, Ontario, Levy surprised himself by breaking down into tears over the prospect of a sequel without Catherine.
"No, not now," he told CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Anthony Mason, who asked if there could ever be more Schitt's Creek in the wake of the tragedy. "You can't."
Levy grew up with Catherine: She and his father Eugene Levy enjoyed a long, fruitful creative relationship that began at Toronto comedy institution The Second City in the 1970s. That collaboration continued on the sketch series SCTV and in the mockumentaries of Christopher Guest, and culminated with her Emmy-winning portrayal of riches-to-rags matriarch Moira Rose on Schitt's Creek.
Dan explained that before Catherine's death, he was "thinking about" a Schitt's Creek sequel, reboot, or some other kind of revival. But now, he said, "it's tough."
When Mason asked what Dan was feeling, he responded that he was overwhelmed with "just a lot of memories. A lot of memories with with Catherine... It's what you have to hold onto, the memories of it all."
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