Overview
- Robert Watson confirmed to TMZ that his sister died on Friday, Dec. 26, in Colorado Springs at age 57.
- She had been hospitalized for bleeding issues and her condition deteriorated quickly, according to media reports citing her family.
- Watson was best known for portraying Kathy Gordon in four episodes of Diff'rent Strokes in the early 1980s.
- Born with osteogenesis imperfecta, she used a wheelchair and later co-founded Train Rite, which trains shelter dogs to assist people with disabilities.
- She left acting after the sitcom, was briefly married to Roger Bernhardt in the 1990s, and withdrew a 2020 bid for the Colorado State Senate due to health reasons.