It’s been four years since the former Golden Girls star Betty White died days before what would have been her 100th birthday. Indeed, she is still missed by millions of fans to this day.
In fact, White is so beloved that it’s come as a shock that the former All In The Family star Sally Struthers is opening up about having a negative experience with the television icon. Struthers, 77, is accusing White of “fat-shaming” her decades ago.
Struthers Blasts White
“I know everybody loves her. They loved her so much,” Struthers said of White in a new interview. “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.” She called her a “very passive-aggressive woman.”
Say it ain’t so, Sally!
Struthers went on to claim that she once went to White’s house to work on a pilot for a new game show. During her time there, White allegedly asked her housekeeper to bring them 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,” she continued. “And I thought, ‘Gosh, that’s not nice.’”
And dang. It sure is not nice. It seems so unlike Betty.
Struthers Loved Bea Arthur
Struthers went on to say that she had far better interactions with White’s former Golden Girls co-star Bea Arthur, who died in 2009 at the age of 86. Arthur guest starred on All in the Family during the show’s second season as Maude, eventually garnering her own spinoff show for this character.
“Bea Arthur comes in and she’s a force of nature,” Struthers stated. She remembered that before filming an episode, the cast of All In The Family would do a run-through for the producers and people from the network.
“Sometimes they’d look up,” she added. “But you couldn’t count on them for a lot of laughs ’cause they were too busy making sure we said the words that were on the page.”
Struthers then said that Arthur was “filthier than a drunken sailor” and “put all sorts of expletives in her lines to shock these men.”
Struthers concluded by remembering that she often ran into Arthur at their local grocery store. There, Arthur would make her laugh hysterically in the aisles with her antics.
“She would trash everyone we ever knew,” Struthers said of Arthur. “I loved how filthy she was.”
White’s Death
White died on December 31, 2021. She would have turned 100 days later on January 17, 2022.
“It was a mild stroke,” a source told People Magazine at the time. “She died peacefully in her sleep.”
White’s longtime agent and friend Jeff Witjas confirmed this, saying, “Betty passed in her sleep peacefully without pain. To me this is the most important thing and brings me comfort as her dear friend. Anything else is private to Betty.”
Find out more about this in the video below.
Many will undoubtedly be shocked to learn of Struthers’ negative interaction with White. In the end, this serves as a reminder that everyone has “off” days, even Betty White!
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