National treasure Betty White was a ‘very passive aggressive woman’ who fat-shamed me, actor says
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White died in 2021 just three weeks before her 100th birthday. “I know everybody loves her. They loved her so much,” the Gilmore Girls actor said, but said she “didn’t have such a great experience with her.”. She was “a very passive-aggressive woman,” said Struthers.
The actor recalled being at White’s house to work on the pilot for a new game show. During the shoot, White asked her maid to bring them a snack while they worked. “Then the plate was set in the middle and it was cookies, I think,” Struther 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.’”.
As Saperstein and Bellotti looked shocked, Struthers added, “Totally fat-shamed me in front of the rest of the people in the room.”. “And I thought, ‘Gosh, that’s not nice.’”. Despite her rocky relationship with White, Struthers reflected on her experience with another member of the Golden Girls cast, Bea Arthur, who guest-starred on Struthers’s Seventies sitcom All in the Family during its second season.
“Bea Arthur comes in and she’s a force of nature,” she said about the actress who died in 2009 aged 86. She said that before filming, the actors read through the scripts in front of the show’s producers. “Sometimes they’d look up. 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 explained.
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