Mary Kay Bergman - Aftermath

Aftermath

Bergman's husband Dino Andrade established the Mary Kay Bergman Memorial Fund, which contributes to the operation of the Suicide Prevention Center at the Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center.

The film Bob's Video by Mary Kay & Dino's production company, Klaxon Filmworks, had been completed before Mary Kay died, but was posthumously shown at the HBO Urban World Film Festival, at the Blue Sky Festival, and at a Mary Kay Bergman memorial screening. This included her only live action role, among a few voice roles, still photographer and executive producer for the film.

To benefit the Mary Kay Bergman Memorial Fund, a Memorial Celebration and Concert was held in March 2000. Many industry voice actors came to the event including Jane Jacobs, Mona Marshall (who would be one of her South Park successors), Barbara Goodson and Diane Michelle, all of whom sang in the choir. The choir's musical accompanists were Reid Bruton and David Kaminski. Tara Strong, her fiancée, Craig Strong, Tara's sister, Marla Charendoff and Debi Derryberry also attended. The service was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in the famous Blossom Room, where the first Academy Awards was presented in 1929.

During an interview with South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, they explained the challenges they had to face after Bergman's death: "We kind of realized right away that one person wasn't going do it, cause that's what she was amazing at, which was she could do so many different voices, and we had her just do all of them cause she could. And so we knew, and we know, we're still in the process of finding a lot of talented voice people there that can do one or two of the voices that she did. But it's going to take four to five people to replace her... because we are in this thing where we do shows two weeks ahead of time, when it happened it was really tough because we had three shows to do... and we knew we weren't going to find anyone at the time, so we just wrote three episodes with no female characters in them."

Al Lowe, who had worked with Bergman on 3 Leisure Suit Larry video games, posted a tribute to her on his website. As Lowe stated, "Mary Kay was the sort of person who could light up a room just by entering. She was a joy to work with and made me look good as a novice voice-over director. It was therefore even more shocking when I learned that she had taken her own life."

The South Park episode "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" was dedicated to her, as was the episode "Starvin' Marvin in Space," the first episode to air after her death.

Bergman is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills, with her gravestone being marked by her husband. Bergman's mother died less than a year after the suicide.