How Is Diane Ladd Doing? An Update on Her Illness

In 2018, Diane Ladd was diagnosed with pneumonia and told she had six months to live. She explained to Closer Weekly that her daughter, Laura Dern, immediately “went bananas crying, saying, ‘You can’t die! I don’t have any brothers or sisters — Mother, you’re all I have!'” When Diane outlived the doctors’ estimated life expectancy, she said, “But I proved the doctors wrong — I didn’t die. I fooled them!”