Toward the end of her life, Bertrand preferred her privacy and did not grant interviews.[1] After a nearly eight-year battle with ovarian and breast cancer, she died aged 56 on January 27, 2007, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in the company of her children.[2][10][3] Bertrand's mother and sister also died of cancer.[19][4] Her daughter said, "My grandmother also died young; so, my mother always thought it could happen to her."[5]