Catherine O'Hara's brother Michael P. O'Hara is sharing some insight into the "sort of goodbye" he shared with his sister beforeher death in January.
During the first episode of season 3 of his podcastDreams 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."
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 inSecond City Televisionand 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 haveshared numerous tributestoher memory.
Dan Levy, who co-created and starred on the award-winning seriesSchitt’s Creekalongside O'Hara, recentlyremembered his beloved costarin an emotional interview onThe 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.
During a recent visit toSchitt's Creekshooting location Goodwood, Ontario, Levy surprised himself bybreaking down into tears over the prospect of a sequelwithout Catherine.
"No, not now," hetoldCBS Sunday Morningcorrespondent Anthony Mason, who asked if there could ever be moreSchitt's Creekin the wake of the tragedy. "You can't."
Levy grew up with Catherine: She and his fatherEugene Levyenjoyed a long, fruitful creative relationship that began at Toronto comedy institution The Second City in the 1970s. That collaboration continued on the sketch seriesSCTVand in the mockumentaries of Christopher Guest, and culminated with her Emmy-winning portrayal of riches-to-rags matriarch Moira Rose onSchitt's Creek.
Dan explained that before Catherine's death, he was "thinking about" aSchitt's Creeksequel, 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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