
[QUOTE]“Carol Burnett wrote back: ‘I spoke to Betty’s assistant and she said the very last word out of her mouth was ‘Allen.’” White was married to Ludden from 1963 until his death in 1981 at the age of 63 from stomach cancer.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 106 | May 26, 2022 6:27 PM |
Heartbreaking but also heartwarming. My last word would probably be my mom.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 3, 2022 11:41 PM |
Good gawd, give this woman some privacy.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 3, 2022 11:43 PM |
How nice to know what Vicki told Page Six that Carol told her that Betty’s assistant claimed that Betty said.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 3, 2022 11:43 PM |
[quote]Vicki Lawrence – who worked with White on “Mama’s Family” – exclusively told Page Six that she contacted co-star and pal Carol Burnett as soon as she heard the tragic news.
[quote]“I texted Carol and said, ‘This just sucks. I hate this. It’s just horrible to see the people you love so much go away,’” Lawrence, 72, recalled.
It's nice that they were/are all still friends after all these years.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 3, 2022 11:44 PM |
My last words will probably be, "Oh, shit!"
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 3, 2022 11:59 PM |
Aw sweet...remoinds me of how much Rose owuld go on about how she knew she and Charlie would reunite one day....we all know that was Betty speaking.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 4, 2022 12:03 AM |
In the Golden Girls Forever book, Betty is quoted discussing acting the scene where she makes a birthday cake the first year after Charlie died (and she gets emotional). She says that she basically wasn't acting--she used her Allen feelings there to let loose the raw emotion in that scene.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 4, 2022 12:06 AM |
The Hollywood Reporter did a much better interview with Vicki.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 4, 2022 12:07 AM |
? She talked in her sleep?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 4, 2022 3:37 AM |
How lovely of Vicki Lawrence to be mooching money off Betty's death.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 4, 2022 3:40 AM |
Will Carol stop speaking to her again for revealing that confidential information?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 4, 2022 3:43 AM |
Vicki Lawrence can't keep your damned mouth shut can she?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 4, 2022 4:06 AM |
Why is autocorrect f****** with me tonight?
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 4, 2022 4:10 AM |
Kinda freaky. What if our people are waiting for us on the other side?
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 4, 2022 4:15 AM |
R17 Lol, so everybody's just "on the other side" - friends, enemies, etc.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 4, 2022 4:18 AM |
Seems unfair to die and have to deal with the same bullshit.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 4, 2022 4:20 AM |
How the hell did Vicki Lawrence ever have a career?
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 4, 2022 4:23 AM |
"Welcome to Heaven, Betty. Bea left something for you in your dressing room."
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 4, 2022 4:27 AM |
It’s nice to think that Alan might have escorted her into the afterlife. I was alone in a hospital room with my father when he died and believe me when I tell you I could feel the presence of someone in the room with us. After he passed it was comforting to think he didn’t leave this world alone.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 4, 2022 4:34 AM |
It is all over the Press today.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 4, 2022 11:39 PM |
She actually said, “Fuck you, Vicki.”
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 4, 2022 11:41 PM |
Betty was trying to say "Alan and I were both big homos"....but she ran out of steam
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | January 5, 2022 12:01 AM |
"Alan"... "Why are you standing between Rock Hudson and Liberace?"
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | January 5, 2022 12:05 AM |
R27 were they really both homos? I keep hearing that, but I do not know what to believe. Were they both gay?
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 5, 2022 12:09 AM |
Would a gay man pursue woman shortly after his wife died?
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 5, 2022 12:11 AM |
R30 Betty was a very strong independent woman. I cannot believe she would actually beard for someone. Did she have girlfriends?
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | January 5, 2022 12:14 AM |
Those two were a real love match.
Everytime Betty celebrated another birthday he would give her mother Tess a present for giving birth to her.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 5, 2022 12:20 AM |
The assistant said that Betty passed away peacefully in her sleep. I call BS.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 5, 2022 12:22 AM |
She wasn't saying Alan, she was saying Ellen. She was cursing that mean drunk lesbian from her deathbed.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | January 5, 2022 12:32 AM |
R33. You're adorable. I hope you've read the lovely musings between Rock and his beloved wife Phyllis.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | January 5, 2022 12:32 AM |
I never realized Vicki had such pottymouth.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | January 5, 2022 12:34 AM |
Vicki is just trying to get that last bit of relevancy with Mama's Family. Betty will always be known as Sue Ann Nivens and Rose Lindstrom Nylund before anyone remembers her as Ellen Harper Jackson. Same with Rue as Blanche Hollingsworth Deveraux before Aunt Fran Crowley.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | January 5, 2022 12:35 AM |
Why do some people believe Allen Ludden was gay? I don't get it. Where are the receipts?
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | January 5, 2022 12:37 AM |
Who knows, R40? That's something I've ever only heard on Datalounge and I've been in the industry for decades - even had friends who worked on the GOLDEN GIRLS.
If someone has an actual first-person story, please share.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 5, 2022 12:49 AM |
R40 Zero. No receipts. Not gay. Just something goofy a few people here decided to create to see who would follow along.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 5, 2022 12:50 AM |
Wow, it's almost as if DataLounge where a bitchy gossip site for Gay men
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | January 5, 2022 12:56 AM |
Your will be no satan don’t take me
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | January 5, 2022 1:04 AM |
I saw Alan's business card he'd given to a guy who was hitch-hiking to Uni on the Strip. His wrote his home number on the back of the card. He wanted to get together. He also asked this guy about free-balling, etc. Alan was gay, gay, gay So was Betty .
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | January 5, 2022 1:09 AM |
R45 well, if that’s true I am sure the rumors will be coming forward soon.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | January 5, 2022 1:12 AM |
Betty's timing at the every end of this interview is brilliant. "Whatever Liberace was, he wasn't straight." Beat. Betty says "not at all."
Actually gave me a belly laugh. Interesting that she bearded for him.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 47 | January 5, 2022 1:16 AM |
I don't for one second believe that Betty White was a lesbian.
Did Allen Ludden like boys on the DL? Maybe. I don't know. But Betty was no muff-diver.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | January 5, 2022 1:19 AM |
What else has DL lied to me about?! Next thing you know, you'll be saying Vivian's last husband wasn't gay.
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | January 5, 2022 1:23 AM |
R46 - Just so you know, R45 is mentally retarded
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | January 5, 2022 1:23 AM |
Why did Vicki Lawrence drop the Schultz? It sounded so lyrical.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | January 5, 2022 4:54 AM |
Betty did one episode of the syndicated mamas family in 1986. It was assumed that she didn’t do more due to being on the Golden Girls. White said that wasn’t true, she said she wasn’t asked but would have done if she was asked.
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | January 5, 2022 5:51 AM |
I can't imagine that NBC didn't have her under an exclusive contract by then, R52.
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | January 5, 2022 6:11 AM |
R50 sounds like you’re very well educated on the topic, since it appears you are mentally retarded, too. 💋
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | January 5, 2022 11:17 AM |
" since it appears you are mentally retarded, too"
A lot of that goin' around these days
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | January 5, 2022 11:47 AM |
What the article fails to mention is that Betty and her assistant were playing a round of Password - for old times’ sake.
Assistant: “Lavenderrrr…”
Betty: “Allen.”
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | January 5, 2022 12:10 PM |
Vicky has a smelly pussy.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | January 5, 2022 11:07 PM |
Betty White was late to the Mama’s Family set because she stopped to rescue two dogs on her way:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 58 | January 5, 2022 11:09 PM |
I’ll bet Vicki wasn’t so happy that day.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | January 5, 2022 11:32 PM |
Am I making this up, or did I read somewhere that Vicki and Rue did not get along for the NBC show? Can anyone confirm?
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | January 5, 2022 11:45 PM |
Was Rue jealous of Dorothy Lyman?
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | January 6, 2022 1:24 AM |
I love Betty, but she had an old lady haircut (it was all teased and sprayed) when she started at 50 years old on The Mary Tyler Moore Show...and even before that, she always had an old lady haircut.
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | January 6, 2022 1:43 AM |
Betty always always had the old lady haircut.
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | January 6, 2022 1:53 AM |
“Allen” was the name of her sled.
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | January 6, 2022 2:03 AM |
Vicki didn’t make many friends in Hollywood after The Carol Burnett Show. She got into the pissing match over Mama’s Family, then she and her husband screwed up the talk show deal.
That’s the night that light went out in Georgia, WHOAH WHOOOAH.
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | January 6, 2022 2:36 AM |
Vicki snagged an interview with the elusive Doris Day and handled her correctly: like a child.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 68 | January 6, 2022 2:49 AM |
My last word should I go tomorrow would be, Pammy. My cat.
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | January 6, 2022 2:55 AM |
Vickie needs a job. Anyone hiring???
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | January 6, 2022 3:32 AM |
I heard she whispered “Rosebud.”
| by Anonymous | reply 71 | January 6, 2022 3:38 AM |
Either this wallpaper goes or I do…
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | January 6, 2022 3:39 AM |
How come neither Carol or Vicki were never asked to guest star on The Golden Girls?
| by Anonymous | reply 73 | January 6, 2022 3:54 AM |
r61, maybe not jealous, but there had to be some resentment since Rue was hired to play a strong character who would go toe-to-toe with Mama, then the producers saw Lyman on All My Children and decided to hire her to be the one to oppose Mama, so Rue's character was rewritten into something she hated. She talks about it in her TV Academy interview (starting at 23:00). "I was hired to play a force, and I became a drip."
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 74 | January 6, 2022 4:19 AM |
But it opened the door for better things to come.
| by Anonymous | reply 75 | January 6, 2022 4:31 AM |
^ True, funny how fate works
| by Anonymous | reply 76 | January 6, 2022 4:54 AM |
You never know what's just around the corner.
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | January 6, 2022 5:02 AM |
Rue’s legs were always open to new things……..
| by Anonymous | reply 78 | January 6, 2022 9:36 AM |
[QUOTE] How come neither Carol or Vicki were never asked to guest star on The Golden Girls?
How do you know they weren’t asked, R73?
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | January 6, 2022 5:31 PM |
Vicki should retire to her cabbage patch
| by Anonymous | reply 80 | January 6, 2022 5:44 PM |
Vicki is such a liar she actually said “LIVE FROM NEW YORK ITS SATURDAY NIGHT!!!”
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | January 6, 2022 7:06 PM |
Her last words were "Bea Arthur is a cunt."
| by Anonymous | reply 82 | January 6, 2022 7:23 PM |
Yikes, I feel bad for her cameo
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 83 | January 6, 2022 7:39 PM |
R82: Cunts of a feather go to lunch together, Mrs. Ludden.
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | January 6, 2022 8:35 PM |
I remember seeing Pat Butcher's death scene on Eastenders on.New Years Day years ago. Well played. Her last words were "I'm scared." Seems more realistic to be honest. Probably what struck me.
| by Anonymous | reply 85 | January 6, 2022 9:15 PM |
"My Florida water" were allegedly Lucille Ball's last words.
| by Anonymous | reply 86 | January 10, 2022 3:51 AM |
R83 Why does VL have wrinkles under her nose in several of those photos?
| by Anonymous | reply 87 | January 10, 2022 3:55 AM |
I thought Betty White died in her sleep?
| by Anonymous | reply 88 | January 10, 2022 4:04 AM |
Bea Arthur seems like a pain in the ass.
| by Anonymous | reply 89 | January 10, 2022 4:04 AM |
The real news is Carol and Vicki are still alive and gossiping about the dearly departed. Classy!
| by Anonymous | reply 90 | January 10, 2022 4:06 AM |
[quote] How the hell did Vicki Lawrence ever have a career?
Probably because she bore a passing resemblance to Carol Burnett. I heard that's how she got on the Carol Burnett show; she looked like she could be Burnett's "kid sister."
| by Anonymous | reply 91 | January 10, 2022 4:06 AM |
I thought Vicki was damn good on The Carol Burnett Show, including her flawless performances as Mama in the Family skits (I never thought the toothless "Mama's Family" was a worthy successor to the original). True, she may have gotten the job for superficial reasons (looking like Carol) but she delivered in my opinion.
| by Anonymous | reply 92 | January 10, 2022 4:38 AM |
Hey Vicki at R92!
Please answer R88's question.
| by Anonymous | reply 93 | January 10, 2022 4:41 AM |
Betty White is one of the few celebrities that totally deserves to be worshipped...and she'd think that was silly... and THAT's exactly why she was great. She was the anti-Kardashian.
| by Anonymous | reply 94 | January 10, 2022 4:47 AM |
Smell her snatch. Peeee youuuuuuuuu!
| by Anonymous | reply 95 | January 10, 2022 5:19 AM |
Are we sure she just wasn’t asking for a Luden’s cough drop?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 96 | January 10, 2022 6:16 AM |
I think I got high on those cough drops when I was in 9th grade, R96.
| by Anonymous | reply 97 | January 16, 2022 2:39 AM |
Wasn't Betty a beard for Ludden?
| by Anonymous | reply 98 | May 26, 2022 12:26 AM |
[quote] "The assistant said that Betty passed away peacefully in her sleep. I call BS."
I love Vicki Lawrence, but absolutely agree.
| by Anonymous | reply 99 | May 26, 2022 12:43 AM |
[quote]"The assistant said that Betty passed away peacefully in her sleep. I call BS."
She was 99 years old and about to turn 100. It certainly isn't outside the realm of possibility.
| by Anonymous | reply 100 | May 26, 2022 3:37 AM |
Vicki Lawrence was a very, very lucky person to have gotten on Carol Burnett. She has lucked out and ridden that her whole life. Otherwise, the most blah person
| by Anonymous | reply 101 | May 26, 2022 11:24 AM |
Mama Harper says fuck off, Iola!
| by Anonymous | reply 102 | May 26, 2022 12:24 PM |
I don't believe it. There.
| by Anonymous | reply 103 | May 26, 2022 1:20 PM |
My last word will be "credenza."
| by Anonymous | reply 104 | May 26, 2022 4:21 PM |
Betty White beard of a GAY husband
| by Anonymous | reply 105 | May 26, 2022 4:34 PM |
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