Sally Struthers claims Betty White ‘fat-shamed’ her



Sally Struthers had a bad experience with Betty White.

“The “All in the Family” actress, 77, said that the late actress — who died in Dec. 2021 at age 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.

Sally Struthers on “Let’s Talk About That! With Larry Saperstein and Jacob Bellotti.” YouTube / Larry and Jacob
Sally Struthers on “Let’s Talk About That! With Larry Saperstein and Jacob Bellotti.” YouTube / Larry and Jacob

“I have to say now that she’s gone, I wanna talk about Betty White for just a moment,” Struthers said.

Betty White in “The Golden Girls.” NBCUniversal via Getty Images

“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.

Sally Struthers at the Emmy Awards in January 2024. WireImage

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,” Struthers remembered. “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 Belllotti gasped in response to Struthers’ story.

Betty White in a portrait session in 2011. Getty Images

“Totally fat-shamed me in front of the rest of the people in the room,” Struthers 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 “The Golden Girls” star, Beau Arthur, who guest starred on “All in the Family.”

Estelle Getty, Beau Arthur, Betty White and Rue McClanahan. NBCUniversal via Getty Images

“I would run into her at the supermarket and she would trash everyone we ever knew,” Struthers said about the star, who died in 2009 at age 86.

“We would stand in the aisle and say, ‘What do you think about so and so?’ [And she’d say] ‘She’s a f–king a—hole.’ People in the store were like, ‘What’s going on in aisle five?’ I loved how filthy she was.”

Estelle Getty, Beau Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Betty White in 1988. NBCUniversal via Getty Images

“She was a big deal,” Struthers added about Arthur. “I loved her.”

When asked about some of her favorite Hollywood memories on the podcast, Struthers recalled how she dated Elvis Presley “for a while.”

“That was fun,” she said. “He was probably the nicest man I ever met. He was so polite and so kind and soft-hearted.”



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