Mary Kay Bergman's suicide



On November 11, 1999, American voice actress Mary Kay Bergman commited suicide by a gunshot wound in the head with a Mossberg 12-gauge. In the morning of November 11, Bergman contributed to a radio program celebrating Disneyland's 45th Anniversary and was last seen alive at 9:00 PM after talking with a friend on the phone. One hour and 20 minutes later, her husband Dino Andrade and his friend John Bell returned home to find that she commited suicide with a shot in the head. She was pronnunced dead in the hospital at 10:38 PM at age 38. Was known for voicing characters like Daphne in the Scooby-Doo direct-to-video films, Dr. Blight from Captain Planet, Timmy Turner from The Fairly OddParents'  Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts, Disney's Snow White (when Adriana Caselotti was unavailable) and Wendy Testaburger, Sharon Marsh, Shelia Brofloski, Liane Cartman, Carol McCormick, Shelly Marsh, Principal Victoria and Mayor McDaniels from South Park. She suffered from bipolar and generalized anxiety disorders that she hid from everyone, which worsened with Bergman's mother being diagnosed with cancer and job-related stress. She is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles. Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders, was the last Scooby-Doo film to feature Bergman as Daphne was dedicated to her and the South Park episodes "Starvin' Marvin in Space" (the final episode where she recorded original dialogue) and "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" (the final episode that used her voices via archive) were dedicated in her memory.