Sally Struthers claims Betty White fat-shamed her: ‘Very passive-aggressive woman’

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died in December 2021 at 99 — once “fat-shamed” her while appearing on Monday’s episode of “Let’s Talk About That! With Larry Saperstein and Jacob Bellotti.”Struthers brought up White after telling the hosts how she used to live four houses away from the exterior of the “Golden Girls” home in Los Angeles.“I have to say now that she’s gone, I wanna talk about Betty White for just a moment,” she said.“I know everybody loves her.

They loved her so much. They signed petitions to get her to guest host ‘Saturday Night Live.’ I know all that,” Struthers continued. “I didn’t have such a great experience with her.”The “Gilmore Girls” star called White a “very passive-aggressive woman.”She recalled the alleged fat-shaming occurred at White’s “beautiful” LA home when the pair met up to work on a pilot for a new game show.Struthers said that White told her housekeeper to bring the group something to eat. “The plate was set in the middle and it was cookies, I think,” she 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.’”Saperstein and Bellotti gasped in response to Struthers’ story.“Totally fat-shamed me in front of the rest of the people in the room,” she said. “And I thought, ‘Gosh, that’s not nice.’”“Well I’m sorry you had that experience with her,” Bellotti told Struthers.

Despite the incident with White, Struthers noted that she has good memories about another “Golden Girls” star, Bea Arthur, who guest starred on “All in the Family.”“I would run into her at the supermarket and she would trash everyone we ever knew,” she said about the star, who died in 2009 at 86.“We would stand in the aisle and say, ‘What do you think about so and so?’.