Oscar nominee Diane Ladd’s cause of death has been revealed two weeks after her death at the age of 89. Ladd’s daughter, fellow actress Laura Dern, shared that she died in her Ojai, California, home on Monday, Nov. 3. “My profound gift of a mother… passed with me beside her this morning,” she said in a statement. People obtained the mother of two’s death certificate, which revealed the actress’s cause of death was acute chronic hypoxic respiratory failure. Hypoxic respiratory failure occurs when there is an insufficient amount of oxygen in the blood, often caused by a lung condition. The document confirmed that Ladd had been dealing with interstitial lung disease for years before her death. The report found that esophageal dysmotility was another contributing condition. The released certificate listed that Ladd was cremated on Nov. 10. “She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist, and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created,” Dern said.
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