Tearful Selena Gomez, Martin Short pay tribute to his late daughter Katherine with award at Rare Impact Fund Gala
Oct 15, 2026
AI GeneratedMay contain errors
Video Summary
AI GeneratedThe speaker shares a poignant reflection on the loss of his daughter, Catherine, to mental illness. By comparing mental health struggles to physical diseases like cancer, he emphasizes that these conditions are illnesses rather than sources of shame. He advocates for increased awareness and funding to remove the stigma surrounding mental health and offers a perspective on enduring grief as a form of love.
And cancer, which took my wife, for example, are both diseases.
They are diseases.
And sometimes diseases are terminal.
Catherine fought for so long with extreme mental health issues,
borderline personality, other things.
And she did the best she could until she couldn't.
And that's why it's so important what Selena's doing tonight,
raising these kind of funds and awareness to help people understand
understand that mental health is simply an illness
not to be hidden in the shadows or perceived as a
family embarrassment. Loss will be devastating
to my soul as long as I'll live. The great Dolly
Parton once said grief is love with no place
to go. My pain about losing my daughter will
always be present in my heart and I think that's simply
because what we deeply love we can never
lose