Catherine O’Hara Says She 'Thinks' She Slept ThroughHome AloneCostar John Candy’s Wedding

Mar. 15, 2025

Catherine O’Hara and John Candy in ‘Home Alone’ in 1990.Photo:20th Century Fox

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Catherine O’Haraskipped longtime friend andHome AlonecostarJohn Candy’s wedding, not becauseshe had a “crush” on him, as she told PEOPLE earlier this year, but because she slept through it!

TheBeetlejuice Beetlejuicestar made the hilarious admission onJulia Louis-Dreyfus’s podcastWiser Than Merecently.

The host asked O’Hara, 70, whether there was anything she wished she’d spent less time on in her life.

“Oh, maybe sleeping?” O’Hara replied with a laugh.

Catherine O’Hara in October 2024.Taylor Hill/FilmMagic

Taylor Hill/FilmMagic

“I have never, in my entire life, heard somebody say they wish they’d spent less time sleeping,” a very amused Louis-Dreyfus, 63, responded. “You sleep too much? Seriously?”

O’Hara clarified that she meant when she was a teenager, but also following all-night writing sessions with Toronto’s Second City comedy troupe in the ’70s where she first met and worked with Candy.

“We did the show, and then we would go to one of our houses and stay up all night coming up with ideas. It was so fun and electric and exciting,” she explained. “But then I would sleep most of the day.”

“Maybe I missed some things,” O’Hara added. “I think I missed John Candy’s wedding. I was asleep.”

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O’Hara reminisced about Candy,who died in 1994, to PEOPLE earlier this year, revealing that she had “such a crush” on her friend.

“He was just as lovely as you want him to be,” the actress recalled.

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“I wouldn’t claim he was interested in me that way,” O’Hara added of Candy, who married wife Rosemary Margaret Hobor in 1979. “But he was always really lovely to me in Second City Theater.”

“The two women and John Candy got paid less than everyone,” she claimed. “Now John, God bless him, turned it around big time. As the years went on, he got a lawyer, and he got more than anybody, and good for him.”

source: people.com