Betty White called 'the C word' by Golden Girls co-stars, casting director explains

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Betty White was branded a "f***ing c***" by her co-stars.The Hollywood legend Betty died from a stroke which she suffered almost a week before she passed away at the age of 99 on the last day of 2021.Casting director Joel Thurm has disclosed that her main co-stars Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan - who have both passed away - did not like Betty and called her profane names.He revealed: "Literally Bea Arthur, who I cast in something else later on, just said, "Oh, she's a f***ing c***," using that word."Joel appeared on The Originals podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Andrew Goldman where he announced Betty's tumultuous relationship with her Golden Girls co-stars.Andrew who was absolutely thrown back by the revelation, responded: "Bea Arthur called Betty White a C word?"Joel added: "Yeah, she called her the C word.

I mean, I heard that with my own ears."The casting director then added that Betty was branded the curse word by her other co-star Rue who played the show's Blanche Devereaux.He added: "And by the way, so did Rue McClanahan."Rue McClanahan said it to me in Joe Allen's [restaurant]; Bea Arthur [when she was] on the set of Beggars And Choosers."Casting director Joel revealed he's sharing juicy behind-the-scenes details alongside a number of tell-all stories in his forthcoming book Sex, Drugs, & Pilot Season: Confessions Of A Casting Director.Nearly a decade ago in 2011, Betty addressed the on-set tensions with Bea in an interview with the The Village Voice.She said: "Bea had a reserve.

She was not that fond of me. She found me a pain in the neck sometimes."It was my positive attitude — and that made Bea mad sometimes.