Reese Witherspoon paid tribute to Diane Ladd on Wednesday following her death at age 89.
Witherspoon got to know Ladd when she worked with her actress daughter Laura Dern on their series Big Little Lies.
The 49-year-old Morning Show star used Instagram to share throwback photos with Diane alongside an emotional caption.
‘Oh Diane! What a beautiful spirit, filled with light, childlike creativity, and boundless ideas,’ she began the note.
It continued, ‘A born & bred storyteller from Mississippi, your golden voice made every small moment feel like a remembered dream. You were my inspiration and my Other Mother.’
Reese added, ‘May all your angels welcome you home into a place of love & light,’ before signing off, ‘Til we meet again.’
Oscar-nominated actress Diane, best known for her role as the waitress Flo in the 1974 film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, died earlier this week at her home in Ojai, California.
Reese Witherspoon paid tribute to Diane Ladd on Wednesday following her death at age 89
The 49-year-old Morning Show star used Instagram to share throwback photos with Diane, who is actress Laura Dern’s mother, alongside an emotional caption
‘Oh Diane! What a beautiful spirit, filled with light, childlike creativity, and boundless ideas,’ Reese began the note
Her daughter Laura, 58, confirmed the devastating news in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on Monday.
She said: ‘My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother, Diane Ladd, passed with me beside her this morning, at her home in Ojai, Calif.
‘She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created. We were blessed to have her. She is flying with her angels now.’
Diane earned three Oscar nominations throughout her career for her roles in Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild At Heart (1990) and Rambling Rose (1991).
She starred in more than 300 films and TV shows including Stephen King’s 2004 supernatural horror television series Kingdom Hospital.
Her other notable credits include Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983), Ghosts Of Mississippi (1996), 28 Days (2000), Charlie’s War (2003) and Joy (2015).
Her final TV role was in the Hallmark series Chesapeake Shores, where she played Nell O’Brien from 2016 to 2022.
And her ultimate film role was in 2022’s Gigi & Nate.
Laura (L), 58, confirmed the devastating news in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on Monday
Reese shared a clip of a special moment between her and Diane in the tribute
‘My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother, Diane Ladd, passed with me beside her this morning, at her home in Ojai, Calif,’ Laura wrote in a statement this week
Diane earned three Oscar nominations throughout her career for her roles in Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild At Heart (1990) and Rambling Rose (1991)
Diane and Laura made history in 1992 as the first mother-daughter duo to earn Oscar nominations in the same year for their performances in Rambling Rose.
In 2018 the matriarch was given six months to live when she was misdiagnosed with pneumonia after inhaling poisonous spray from a farm neighboring her home.
Unsatisfied with the diagnosis, Laura transferred her to another hospital, where she made a full recovery.
As she worked to improve her health, the pair took long walks and recorded their conversations.
The discussions evolved into their 2023 joint memoir Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother And Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (And Banana Pudding).
In a review of the literary work The Telegraph raved it is ‘the best, truest, most shockingly entertaining Hollywood memoir,’ adding, ‘It is also one of the most loving.’
