Overview
- In a People interview, Madsen says her brother is “no longer suffering” after dying of cardiac arrest at 67 on July 3, 2025 following years of alcoholism.
- She describes how addiction left him withdrawn and difficult to reach in his final years.
- The family has found renewed closeness, with her 94-year-old mother expressing a sense that he is at peace.
- Madsen says she made Sheepdog, opening in theaters Jan. 16, to honor her nephew Hudson, an Army sergeant who died by suicide in January 2022.
- Hudson served in Afghanistan and lived on an Army base in Oahu with his wife, Carlie, while Madsen’s film role as a therapist seeks to spur conversation about veterans’ mental health.