BETTY WHITE's Cause Of Death Revealed

Just before her 100th birthday, Hollywood lost the final Golden Girl when actress Betty White passed away on New Years Eve of 2022.

According to the death certificate obtained by TMZ, White passed away due to complications of a stroke she had suffered six days prior. The official cause of death is listed as a cerebrovascular accident, meaning she lost blood flow to a part of her brain, which resulted in brain damage.

She was "alert and coherent" after her stroke and died peacefully in her sleep on December 31st. She would have celebrated her 100th birthday on January 17th.

"Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever," her agent and close friend Jeff Witjas told PEOPLE at the time. "I will miss her terribly and so will the animal world that she loved so much. I don't think Betty ever feared passing because she always wanted to be with her most beloved husband Allen Ludden. She believed she would be with him again."

White was 99 years old when she passed and the world is a little colder without her.