Catherine O’Hara gave a characteristically cheeky answer when asked how she wanted to die, in a resurfaced interview given 13 years ago.

The comedy icon, beloved for movies like Home Alone and After Hours and TV shows like SCTV and Schitt’s Creek, passed away Friday at the age of 71.

Haunting 911 dispatch audio obtained by the Daily Mail revealed she was having ‘difficulty breathing’ before paramedics rushed to her Brentwood home that morning.

O’Hara was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead within hours of the emergency call, of causes that have yet to be disclosed to the public.

She had painted a much different picture of her final hours back in 2013, when she answered the famous Proust questionnaire for Vanity Fair.

The actress said she hoped to die ‘Laughing, surrounded by my old grandchildren, who are telling me to “let go, already, Grandma!”’

Catherine O’Hara gave a characteristically cheeky answer when asked how she wanted to die, in a resurfaced interview given 13 years ago; pictured in 2019 

O’Hara’s survivors include her husband of nearly 34 years Bo Welch, a production designer she met while they were both working on the 1988 classic Beetlejuice.

They welcomed two children, Matthew, 31, and Luke, 28, who have both followed their parents into showbiz, one as a set dresser and another in set construction.

The late Heartburn actress is also survived by her siblings Michael O’Hara, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Maureen Jolley, Marcus O‘Hara, Tom O’Hara and Patricia Wallice.

During the same Proust questionnaire in which she discussed her death, she was asked to name ‘the greatest love of your life’ and replied: ‘My family.’

A Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman told the Daily Mail of O’Hara’s final health crisis: ‘At 4:48 am we responded to a request for medical aid to that address and transported an approximately 70-year-old female in serious condition.’

She was not known to have been ill in the run-up to her death, but appeared frail during her final red carpet appearance at the Emmys last September.

Less than three weeks ago on January 11, she was absent from the Golden Globes despite being nominated for best supporting actress on television for The Studio, a showbiz satire starring and co-created by Seth Rogen.

Her death was met with a flood of tributes from such names as Macaulay Culkin, whose mother she had played in Home Alone, and Brooke Shields, whom she had parodied on her star-making sketch show SCTV in the 1970s. 

O’Hara’s survivors include her husband Bo Welch, a production designer she met while they were both working on the 1988 classic Beetlejuice; the couple pictured 1990 

O’Hara is pictured with her husband and their sons Matthew, now 31, and Luke, now 28, at the 2003 premiere of The Cat in the Hat at Universal Studios

She was not known to have been ill in the run-up to her death, but appeared frail during her final red carpet appearance at the Emmys last September

Her The Studio co-star Rogen and Ike Barinholtz, her Schitt’s Creek co-star Dan Levy and her Beetlejuice co-star Michael Keaton all added their voices to the choir.

Martin Scorsese, who directed O’Hara in the rollicking 1985 comedy After Hours, was pictured looking aghast at the news of her death in a FaceTime screen-grab posted to social media by his daughter Francesca. 

O’Hara was known during her life to have suffered from a rare condition called situs inversus, meaning organs in the chest and abdominal area have exchanged places from where they are normally situated anatomically.

Doctors discovered her heart was on the right side of her body while testing her for tuberculosis, as mandated by a nursery school one of her sons attended.

‘I’m a freak, yeah!’ she joked in a 2021 interview discussing the subject: ‘I love Western medicine but I just don’t want to be a part of it.’

O’Hara confessed: ‘I don’t even know the name because I don’t want to know the name. Something cardi-inversa and then dexter-cardia and something-inversa.’

She added: ‘People are going to think I’m so ignorant not to know this, but I kind of don’t want to know because I didn’t know before that.’