Someone Finally Had a Bad Thing to Say About Betty White
Who’s in the mood for decades-old drama? And what if I said the drama involved one living TV legend and one dead TV legend who was beloved in a way we have not seen before or since? Sally Struthers (Babette from Gilmore Girls to you, Gloria from All in the Family to your parents) has become maybe the first person ever to publicly share an anti–Betty White sentiment. On the Let’s Talk About That! podcast, Struthers recounted her relationship with White, calling her a “very passive-aggressive woman.”
“I know everybody loves her. They loved her so much,” Struthers said. “They signed petitions to get her to guest-host Saturday Night Live. I know all that. I didn’t have such a great experience with her.”
Struthers said that one time she went over to White’s home to work on a pilot for a new game show, and the Golden Girls star asked her housekeeper to bring the group something to eat. “Then the plate was set in the middle, and it was cookies, I think,” Struthers recalled. “So I reached for a cookie and she said in front of everyone, ‘Oh, I wouldn’t do that if I were you dear. You don’t need a cookie.’”
“Totally fat-shamed me in front of the rest of the people in the room,” Struthers said. “And I thought, Gosh, that’s not nice.”
And you know what? It isn’t nice and she should say it. As far as other members of the Golden Girls cast go, Struthers had nothing but nice things to say about Bea Arthur, whom she called “a force of nature” and “filthier than a drunken sailor.” The jury’s still out on Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty.
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