Will you donate to Brett Butler’s GoFundMe?

I thought she was a psychic now.

And how are people supposed to know that this is an actual friend of hers?

There was a DLer who was an old friend of hers, back when she was with her abusive ex. I’ve always liked her, I hope things get better.

Holy fuk! Is this for real? How did she lose all her TV series millions?

She'll just use the money to buy more booze. Hard pass.

I don't trust this GoFundMe effort, either.

GRACE UNDER FIRE ran for 5 seasons in the 90s. Inexplicable to me, as I couldn't stand Butler or her show; her acting made Roseanne look like Streep by comparison. But she must have earned millions on it. And she hasn't stopped working completely: she had a bit part on THE MORNING SHOW with Jen and Reese.

$365 so far!

If Butler is struggling now, some (many?) would call it karmic payback for being such a psychotic, abusive bitch back in the day.

[quote] psychotic, abusive bitch

I think the word you're looking for is "cunt."

I heard she was taking care of elderly animals. I hope they’re all okay.

NOT one red cent!

She was on The Walking Dead for a couple of seasons.

She plays Reese Witherspoon's mom on The Morning Show, which just started shooting a second season. All she needs is for them to write her into a couple scenes.

Then Reese can go fund her!

I'd rather donate to a GoFundMe for John Waters to make a final masterpiece.

R6 She blew through all that money.

10 years ago, she was actually homeless.

It’s kind of hard to feel sorry for someone who not only had millions of dollars at one time and blew through it all, but treated her coworkers like dirt.

Maybe she’s changed….

She could make money by doing a live reading of that trainwreck final Grace Under Fire episode where she barely could speak. Poor Julia Duffy was the guest star and ended up carrying the thing quite professionally.

Frankly my dear, get a real damn job.

There's always that fall back- sell some pussy.

She flashed her cooter to a 13 year old boy when that show was on the air. How did she stay out of prison?

that crappy old sitcom of hers is on Laff tv all the time. Doesn't she get any residuals from that?

Agree r6. It's hard to believe she doesn't have one or two million tucked into a conservative investment account. She would have to be the world's biggest fuckup to spend all her money. Booze isn't that expensive.

Her show was shit then I heard she was a drunk and flashed or made a pass at a young boy... so I canceled her in my mind long ago. What actually went down with this honky? (Besides being dead broke)

This is sad. I still watch her sitcom in reruns. I knew she had addictions, but had no idea she was such a prima donna on her show. I hope she can pull herself together and find some happiness in her senior years.

Drugs not just sweet booze

I'm surprised she hasn't just found some rich old dude to live off but I guess I can respect that.

What is her story? She is 63 and looks, in full makeup and flattering lighting, like a 70 year old bar floozy. She has worked steadily for decades. Homeless?

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[quote] She is 63 and looks, in full makeup and flattering lighting, like a 70 year old bar floozy.

She looked like that even in her prime.

I wonder if her Deplorable fans will send her cash if they see that she exposed herself to a child? You know how strongly they feel about rape.

Brett always knew where to find the booze - and the boys!

I'm in for a buck.

Take all of your 'struggles' and go back and do stand-up. Her old act had quite a few references about her abusive first marriage.

Tap into the past 20 years. Plus add some Hollywood dirt and dish!

Personally, I'd like to see stand up from an older woman's perspective - and not just Kathy Griffin. She's way ahead of most people as she has name recognition and could get booked just on that alone.

She's sitting on a goldmine if she would get off her ass and do something about it.

she seems to have been getting work -

2012–2014 Anger Management Brett 38 episodes 2015–2017 The Leftovers Sandy Episodes: "No Room at the Inn" + "Don't Be Ridiculous" 2016 How to Get Away with Murder[27] Trishelle Pratt Episode 35: "It's About Frank" Episode 36: "Is Someone Really Dead?" Episode 39: "Who's Dead?"[28] 2018–2019 The Walking Dead Tammy Rose Sutton 6 episodes 2019 The Morning Show Sandy Jackson 3 episodes

She always came across as a hillbilly truck driver in drag.

She was on The Walking Dead, so she can make a few dollars once they start having conventions again.

After reading that EW article above, I wondered what happened to the kid she flashed.

He committed suicide in 2018.

That's horrible, R37. I hope Butler acknowledges her abuse and creating a hostile work environment, but I sincerely doubt she's even capable of that.

I would never, ever let a child of mine work as in film, TV, or modeling. It's just a doorway to all kinds of abuse at the hands of others.

If I were Grace I would be reluctant to acknowledge that exposing my tits may have led to someone shooting himself in the head 25 years later!

I'm so embarrassed for her. I mean, you can get cheap booze. Blowing through all the cash you made from headlining a sitcom is pretty pathetic. Can she do Cameo vids?

Perhaps he was a sister?

It always arouses great suspicia amongst us when a 13 year old is NOT into breast exposure no matter how foul the fish.

What happened to her exactly? I remember her having this show and then it just suddenly being gone.

I think she was addicted to painkillers as well as alcohol.

I have a friend into online occult communities and he's retweeted this Lon Strickler guy a couple of times, if he's a fake he's been faking being Brett's friend for a while. I can't figure out how Brett could be broke, though, like others posted she's had relatively steady work.

What could she have spent all her money on? Booze is not that expensive.

She didn’t flash her cooter, she flashed her new titties.

I’m sorry to say that when someone has blown through that kind of money, there are mental health and addiction issues.

In my experience, that much money disappears from a sick person because they were swindled in bad “investments”. I knew a lovely person who inherited two modest fortunes and a beautiful piece of valuable property. She trusted the wrong people who “invested” her money for her. Fortunately, one of the annuities was legit, so she had something to leave her (exasperated) only heir. They bought a house in an up-and-coming community and seem to be doing okay.

She was emotionally vulnerable and soft-hearted to a fault — and an inveterate alcoholic. (She only drank wine, so she didn’t think she had a problem). I watched her (along with her heir) swat away the truly loyal people who told her what she didn’t want to hear, while she embraced the smooth talkers who took from her. She was also an animal lover, which was one of her Achilles heels.

Jon Paul Steuer

MY NAME IS JON PAUL STEUER.

Nope, since you asked.

From Steuer's Wiki

[quote]she lifted her skirt and flashed her breasts in front of Steuer

Them's some pretty low hanging tatas.

I detest E-beggars.

She looks like Terrence Stamp in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Her solace is that she has the kind, forgiving and generous folks of Hollywood to fall back on....oh, fuck.

I was never a big fan of her sitcom (did love Julie White, though) but wayyyyyyy back in the day I listened to her autobiography on a long road trip and it was quite good.

She is a bitch, she hates women. I remember when she went on the tonight show to brag about her new bolt-ons.

Danny Zuker, who wrote for Roseanne, Grace, and later Modern Family, said on Julie Klausner’s podcast that Grace was an even crazier set than Roseanne and that Brett was “a monster.” He said she would regularly open her robe and flash her beave at him.

The contributions are rising astronomically. At this rate, she'll be able to afford an addition to her current cardboard box.

Someone should put her in contact with Brendad Ickson...she could probably use a roommate right now, with all her condo issues.

She should apply for SNAP for food, get on Medicaid, and get on waiting lists for Section 8 housing. She should also apply for a job at a store or restaurant if she needs work.

[quote] She'll just use the money to buy more booze. Hard pass.

Wise advice, thanks R5

I read she was a prima donna and had to take her own chartered private jet instead of flying with the other cast members doing a show with the Drew Carey show. Drew's crew had t-shirts made later that said I Survived Brett Butler.

R61 Yes. It’s mentioned in the article I posted at R16….

Now that Ellen is not working, maybe she and Brett can collaborate on a new show on ABC. You know, a new cornerstone for a revamping of ABC's TGIF line-up.

Brett and Ellen could play a couple of raging alcoholics who are washed up in the entertainment business. Each week we could follow their zany adventures as they create havoc at an AA meeting. Liza and Jon Hamm might be interested in cameo appearances.

As someone above mentioned, why doesn’t she get on Cameo?

[quote] As someone above mentioned, why doesn’t she get on Cameo?

Because at $0.99 it’s going to take a shit load of Cameos to make any difference, and then there may only be 6 people willing to pay for that. $5.94 doesn’t go as far as it used to.

She could do videos on youtube like Lady Colin but trash everybody in Hollywood. I'd watch that every damn day.

Check out who this Len Strickler is. This is some kinda scam; I knew it as soon as I saw "Fortean researcher". If you really wanna waste your money, why not buy a boat?

I don't see how she could be so broke to the point she couldn't even afford an apartment. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if most of the money she earned in the past is gone, but she worked enough to draw a decent SAG pension along with residuals (although those probably aren't that much these days), they should be enough to cover rent and basic necessities.

The show is in reruns on that low budget antenna channel Laff. Somehow I doubt the residuals are that much.

But yeah, she should have a decent SAG pension.

John Tartaglia of Avenue Q gave her (or scammer Lon) $200 per the GoFundMe.

[quote]I’m sorry to say that when someone has blown through that kind of money, there are mental health and addiction issues.

Allan Ball said that as difficult as it was working with her, he felt sorry for her, because there was clearly mental health issues going on.

She was in the business a while before Grace Under Fire. She wrote for Dolly Parton's variety show and did the obligatory rite of passage appearances on Johnny Carson.

Now this makes me want to listen Brett Butler's episode of the Carson Podcast.

We are in a hiring crunch. There are plenty of JOBS available.

She’s has said herself that nobody from the show will talk to her or have anything to do with her. It must have been BAD.

I think the goal by 1996 was to get the show to 100 episodes for syndication. She was like Roseanne I that she had a first rate supporting cast to make up for her lack of experience.

[quote]I think the goal by 1996 was to get the show to 100 episodes for syndication.

The show ended with 112 shows.

The first 3 seasons of her sitcom were good, but it lost its way by Season 4, and the 5th was just terrible. I hated when they brought on the black guy with the whiney voice and when they brought on Julia Duffy’s character.

Whether she fit in or not, Julia Duffy is a complete three-camera comedy pro, and I'm sure they added her in an attempt to provide some ballast to Brett's increasingly unhinged performances.

Bitch needs to man up. DL is full of drunks, lushes and those with questionable drug habits. You don't see most of us on the streets, honey.

R77 She sucked on GUF and she sucked on Designing Women.

Maybe she could host Jeopardy?

I still want to know if she’s actually tried applying for “regular” jobs.

Living under a bridge? What a loser

This is the final episode of Grace Under Fire, the show was abruptly cancelled either right before or right after this due to Brett Butler's insane behavior. She is so obviously impaired here, it's surprising they even let her go in front of the cameras.

I remember watching that, R83, and wondering what the hell was up with her hair.

Brett should do autograph shows.

[quote]This is the final episode of Grace Under Fire, the show was abruptly cancelled either right before or right after this due to Brett Butler's insane behavior. She is so obviously impaired here, it's surprising they even let her go in front of the cameras.

It was so bad that the episode they managed to cobble together actually was a few minutes too short.

Remember when she reportedly threw a soda can at an executive producer and the producer reportedly requested bodyguards afterwards?😳

Brett Butler net worth $10 million.

Who the hell is Brett Butler?!?

She played Mykalas Adopted Mom on "How to Get Away with Murder"............But this does smell fishy to me.....

No , I did not care for Gone With the Wind.

Embarrassing

Be Cautious when donating-------->>>THIS guy raised money LAST year for a baby he was not related to.......HIS MUGSHOT is on Smoking Gun....He once went to an Oklahoma gay park to film "gay sinners" and post it on YouTube...He calls himself a "commercial activist"---which (presumably) is making MONEY off "activism"..?

R93 = Here is his fundraiser for an UNNAMED BABY he is not related to?....

Radar picked up the story. If it’s not true, neither Brett nor her reps have denied it, though I don’t know if she even has reps? I can see there being no Grace money left - it’s been a long time, and she could have blown the money on just living expenses alone in that time, or living excessively, even in Georgia. And how much would she have made from her most recent acting gigs, after fees and taxes, that wouldn’t get spent on taxes, debts, general living, etc.

Like R76 wrote, the first three seasons were brilliant but deteriorated so fast. It was the first time I was happy a favorite show was canceled. Seeing Brett like that was painful.

I remember reading that Dave Thomas and Brett ad-libbed so many of their scenes together that writers were pissed at them.

She was a very funny stand-up. Her sitcom bore no relation to her real life, she was a very sharp, intelligent woman from the South who moved to NYC and had a very biting wit and a camp sensibility. Her sitcom was basically a clone of Roseanne except she was a single mother, it just didn't fit her life or persona at all. Things were different back then, today she would've had a sitcom that was more true to the person she actually was, would've been a lot funnier and it would be on Netflix.

R83: Wow. That was unwatchable. And that theme “song” was so bad, Ricky Schroder should protest it.

[quote]And that theme “song” was so bad, Ricky Schroder should protest it.

Original theme song they used the first few seasons was much better, to the point, and didn’t have lyrics. I hated the theme song they switched to.

Grace Under Fire reruns are shown on the LAFF channel during the week. There should be some residual checks heading her way. I watched a few episodes while working from home. FWIW, the ex-mother-in-law was funnier than Grace.

[quote]Original theme song they used the first few seasons was much better, to the point, and didn’t have lyrics. I hated the theme song they switched to.

The original theme song was "Lady Madonna," by the Beatles. I'm sure they couldn't afford to pay for the rights to use it for reruns.

Did Carsey Werner ever make a sitcom not centered around a sociopath?

R93/94 that’s not the same guy raising money for Brett butler.

Julie White was great on GUF

[quote]He said she would regularly open her robe and flash her beave at him.

They should have called the show [italic]Leave It To My Beaver[/italic].

A drug addict and alcoholic with a horrible reputation in Hollywood ending up broke is not exactly a rare occurence..

Julie White was so fed up with Butler's crazy that she quit the show. It's not every day an actor quits a hit show and the big paychecks it provides. Butler must've been psychotic.

Some people just can't handle success and go batshit crazy. It's like they feel they don't deserve it and will do everything they can to derail themselves. Doubly so when you come from nothing.

[quote]She is so obviously impaired here, it's surprising they even let her go in front of the cameras.

Really? She's hitting her marks. Not stumbling or fumbling her lines. Eyes seemed focus and clear. Decent facial expressions.

And no, I'm not Butler.

R109, she looks like they picked her up off the floor, gave her a bunch of coffee, threw her in the shower, and literally sent her out with her hair still wet. They said it was difficult to piece together enough of what was filmed to cobble together an episode. Who knows how many takes were involved?

R103 = No he is not...I was pointing out that ANYONE can ask for money. And anyone donating should always be cautious---And that was a perfect example....If you saw R94 you might think that is a worthy cause. But the person who created it R93 has a mugshot online---which he did NOT bother to mention in his crowd funding gig. I wonder how many donated and did not know about his mugshot. I also wonder WHERE THE MONEY WENT for his crowd funding. Over the years he has created multiple websites asking for donations. Doesn't mention THAT online either. I went to school in Oklahoma and believe me people are well aware of this guy. Once he even created a website to "clean up" a local gay park (Trosper Park) because he was offended. The point is---if you feel like giving---investigate who and what you are giving to.

[quote] She flashed her cooter to a 13 year old boy when that show was on the air. How did she stay out of prison?

The same reason Paula Poundstone got off scot-free after allegedly going down on her daughter: Rich White Female Privilege!

Can't get that image out of my head! 😳

The accusations against Paula Poundstone were proven to be false.

[quote] The same reason Paula Poundstone got off scot-free after allegedly going down on her daughter: Rich White Female Privilege!

It's Paula's adopted daughter. Just like Soon-Yi.

R112 shut up about white privilege, Karen. You just troll while your hair is being styled in a Dyson vacuum cannister.

[quote] They said it was difficult to piece together enough of what was filmed to cobble together an episode.

"They" being?

Having lived with an addict and being one myself, you tend to know when someone is fine and not. I stand by my opinion.

I've always confused Brett Butler with Park Overall.

We want to give to Dawn Wells instead, and she's dead.

[quote]Julie White was so fed up with Butler's crazy that she quit the show.

But Cousin Sven stuck it out for the duration.

The guy who played Russell did not enjoy working with her either.

R117 Was there a gofundme for Dawn's funeral?

If you check out the GFM now, there is a message from Brett.

Dawn was buried at sea.

What a calculating grifter. If he doesn't know her, what can BB do? Claim to not need the money? Of course she does. If she kicks up a fuss, split it with her.

I thought that was Shannon r122?

so who here has donated?

Her voice could calve an iceberg.

R126- She sounds like a trucker who has had a four pack a day camel unfiltered cigarette habit for thirty years.

Wasn't she on My Name Is Earl?

r128 She was in one episode.

Donate to a person who squandered millions of dollars & sabotaged a promising career when she should have been investing in her own sobriety & future well-being? Fuck no! Absolutely not! If anyone who's thinking of giving this person one cent you should consider donating to a shelter or local organization that helps people who never had a large bank account to exploit before they lost what little had to addiction or mental illness. It's unfortunate that Butler has fallen on such hard times, but at one time she had limitless resources & access to the best rehabilitation available & is now asking for public funding? Again, fuck no.

[quote]Was there a gofundme for Dawn's funeral?

Those who donated $500 got a coconut.

It has kind of stalled out at nearly 10,500 (goal is 15k) The guy who started this thing is a bit pushy which is a fucking turn off. His last update was beating the drum to get to goal over the last weekend. Hey buddy, you do know that with Gofundme you can withdraw the money accrued at any time, right?

Something about this smells; and no, for once, it's not me.

R132 = I think you are right....Brett Butler could pull in 5 grand (at least) for an "exclusive" interview with People Magazine or Inside Edition. And yet she is being interviewed no where?...That is odd for someone who needs money. Yes I know she "supposedly" commented online but I also wonder what kind of physical shape she is in that she is no where to be seen. Before I would even consider giving a dime I would have to see her on television so I wouldn't have to worry about donating to a DOPE or DRUNK....

r133 How do we know it is really HER commenting? Or does GFM somehow vet that?

Uh Oh.....ANOTHER fundraiser for Brett Butler? From LAST YEAR?.....To "save the farm" for Brett?....Now I am confused...

R135 I think we’re on to something…

Uh Oh Scooby-Doos......Is THIS the same guy who created the Crowdfund?....(VIDEO LINK).....He lost me when he started talking about BIG FOOT...........Also I read online that some of Brett Butlers Social Media accounts have been inactive for YEARS (2018)....Why would the guy who created the gofund account NOT make a video of himself (and Brett) to post online?....He is all over YT talking about Moth Men and Monsters and Phantoms--so he clearly knows HOW to post videos.......WTF?

The save the farm one is from 2020. They only raised about 1000.

Great point R137 though she might be too fucked up/fucked up looking to want to be on camera. Still, if you want people to shell out, go ahead and look bad. Never scared her before.

Hinky city, baby.

Lucy doing a Go Fund Me for Joan Crawford.

Over 10,800 dollars donated and not a single "THANK YOU" from Brett Butler. Not even a "Happy 4th"....Interesting....Was this a scam? Was anyone here stupid enough to donate?

Maybe she’s pissed that she didn’t get the full $15,000.

R141 = Maybe she didn't get a dime of ANY of the money collected.

In two years she can collect Social Security and her union benefits.

She and Scott Rudin should hang out,

Brett Butler? Who’s had him?

If she cant even get like an appearance on a game show or something she must've burned a lot of bridges.

The Hollywood Reporter just did a story on this and her rise and fall, comeback and recent trobles. She was 6 months behind on her apartment rent in LA. She has been suffering from pretty bad depression too. Its a worthwhile read.

Yeah but people don’t like that old beaver. They instead want that fresh, young, tender beaver.

Holy crap.

[quote]Butler made about $25 million on Grace Under Fire, a fortune she piddled away on what she refers to as “profligate” spending and financial carelessness. “I was a little bit too trusting with some people that worked for me, and I had a lot of things stolen,” she says. “That’s just stupid on my part, not to have insurance for those things. And to loan and give a lot of money away. I really just felt so guilty for having it — I almost couldn’t get rid of it fast enough.”

$25 freaking million.

She’s a pedophile too who came on to and flashed the NINE year old actor who played her son, her breasts

If a male had done that to a nine year old girl, or even worse a nine year old boy, he’d be crucified for it and never work again

Female priveledge strikes again

R150 = Is that the same kid who committed suicide from her show?

R151 yup

I gave the bitch five dollars.

[quote]Butler finally got sober in July 1998 — “I should not have lived through 1998, honestly” — and insists she has not touched drugs or alcohol since. The journey to recovery was an incredibly trying one, and wounds persist. “In sobriety, people make amends,” she says. “And my list was exceptionally long. I called one particular person, and she said, ‘Oh, you want to apologize? Well don’t bother. I forgive you. But there’s something I’ve always wanted to tell you: There’s nothing that special about you.’ I could tell how long she’d been waiting to tell me that. I wanted to blurt out, ‘Yeah, people always go on drug-fueled death rampages because they think they’re really special.’ ”

Let me echo her old colleague's sentiment. Brett Butler, you may be a self-destructive addict in recovery (or not). But there's nothing that special about you.

What you were was lucky.

That THR piece is good but it does gloss over the severity of her behavior a bit. She sexually harassed a child actor.

R159, female what?

Your male privilege enabled your undoubtedly financially remunerative career when you can barely read and write.

Just sayin'.

R37 I remember the first kid playing the role was like 10. Then, they replaced him with a hot 18 year old studbro.

GET A JOB

Granny porn has become very chic again. Shave that cooter and get to mov’n, Brett!

I wonder if the person she apologized to was Julie White.

R156 fuck off, because I accidentally typed in the spelling on ONE word wrong

The fact remains, she sexually harassed a nine year old boy, who years later would ultimately commit suicide

Just imagine a male actor doing that, not going to jail, and still working in Hollywood?

Go peddle your MRA crap on Kiwi Farms.

The same system that made it inadvisable (to put it politely) for girls to report when actors, producers or directors were inappropriate, also made it inadvisable for boys to do the same. This was especially true back in the 1990s.

Excuse me, Miss. But I have problems of me own.

I don't know much about the guy who posted her GFM, but there's a pretty big online community interested in local legends and cryptids, and they often don't believe in those creatures at all. It's basically a casual sociocultural interest in modern American mythology.

At first glance this Lon Strickler guy seems more like the "Ghost Hunters" type of dude, rather than someone interested in myths, but I'm not interested enough in him to dig deeper.

Strickler is from Mt. Pleasant, PA - one of the dumbest places in the entire country outside of the south.

Did she write her sitcom scripts? I remember, and had forgotten until I read the HW article, thinking that Brett Butler's character was the first depiction of a working class person who reads Emily Dickinson.

I had the same experience when I watched Raised By Wolves (the C Moran comedy): poor and smart. Not the patronizing version (custodian solves the math problem), but genuine regular person with a vocabulary and they aren't odd-man-out for it.