Sally Struthers has revealed she didn’t discover a pal or confidante in Betty White.

The All within the Household actress says the late Golden Ladies star as soon as "fat-shamed" her in entrance of a gaggle of their friends after she reached out to seize a cookie sitting on a plate in entrance of her at White's home.

"I’ve to say, now that she's gone, I wanna discuss Betty White for only a second," Struthers mentioned on a current episode of the Let's Talk About That! With Larry Saperstein and Jacob Bellotti podcast. "I do know everyone loves her — they beloved her a lot they signed petitions to get her to guest-host Saturday Evening Reside — I do know all that. I didn't have such an amazing expertise together with her."

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The 77-year-old A Man on the Inside actress went on to explain White as a "very passive-aggressive lady," explaining the incident that left a foul style in her mouth occurred when the pair have been working collectively on the pilot for a brand new sport present in White's Los Angeles residence.

"She requested her housekeeper to herald a plate of no matter to us whereas we have been all sitting and speaking about what was working in regards to the sport present and what wasn't working. A plate was set within the center and it was cookies, I feel," Struthers recalled. "So I attain for a cookie and she or he mentioned in entrance of everybody, 'Oh, I wouldn't do this if I have been you, expensive. You don't want a cookie.' Completely fat-shamed me in entrance of the remainder of the individuals within the room, and I believed, 'Gosh, that's not good.'"

White, a five-time Emmy winner, died at 99 in 2021, lower than a month earlier than her a centesimal birthday. A beloved entertainer, she not solely confirmed off her comedic chops on sequence like The Mary Tyler Moore Present, but in addition highlighted her humorousness on the sport reveals Match Sport and Pyramid all through the Seventies, '80s, and past.

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Nonetheless, White is finest acknowledged for her portrayal of everybody's favourite aged sweetheart Rose Nylund on Golden Ladies, which ran for seven seasons, from 1985 till 1992. She later reprised her position in its single-season sequel, The Golden Palace.

On the podcast, Struthers defined that she had a private connection to the sequence — which additionally starred Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty, and Rue McClanahan — as a result of she lived close to the home used for the facade of the Golden Ladies residence.

"My home was on a road referred to as Saltair, and 4 homes up the road from me was the home that was filmed as the outside for Golden Ladies," she mentioned. "I lived 4 homes down from the Golden Ladies home!"

Watch Struthers discuss White and extra within the podcast interview above.

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