Vicki Lawrence: Betty White Last Spoke the Name of Her Husband Before Dying

Beautiful. RIP Betty.

Heartbreaking but also heartwarming. My last word would probably be my mom.

Good gawd, give this woman some privacy.

How nice to know what Vicki told Page Six that Carol told her that Betty’s assistant claimed that Betty said.

[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.

My last words will probably be, "Oh, shit!"

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.

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.

The Hollywood Reporter did a much better interview with Vicki.

? She talked in her sleep?

How lovely of Vicki Lawrence to be mooching money off Betty's death.

Will Carol stop speaking to her again for revealing that confidential information?

Has Iola said anything?

Vicki Lawrence can't keep your damned mouth shut can she?

Why is autocorrect f****** with me tonight?

Vicki is only 72?

Kinda freaky. What if our people are waiting for us on the other side?

R17 Lol, so everybody's just "on the other side" - friends, enemies, etc.

....

Seems unfair to die and have to deal with the same bullshit.

How the hell did Vicki Lawrence ever have a career?

"Welcome to Heaven, Betty. Bea left something for you in your dressing room."

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.

That’s sweet, R23.

It is all over the Press today.

She actually said, “Fuck you, Vicki.”

Betty was trying to say "Alan and I were both big homos"....but she ran out of steam

"Alan"... "Why are you standing between Rock Hudson and Liberace?"

R27 were they really both homos? I keep hearing that, but I do not know what to believe. Were they both gay?

Yes.

Would a gay man pursue woman shortly after his wife died?

R30 Betty was a very strong independent woman. I cannot believe she would actually beard for someone. Did she have girlfriends?

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.

The assistant said that Betty passed away peacefully in her sleep. I call BS.

She wasn't saying Alan, she was saying Ellen. She was cursing that mean drunk lesbian from her deathbed.

R33. You're adorable. I hope you've read the lovely musings between Rock and his beloved wife Phyllis.

I never realized Vicki had such pottymouth.

R29. No, not at all

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.

Why do some people believe Allen Ludden was gay? I don't get it. Where are the receipts?

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.

R40 Zero. No receipts. Not gay. Just something goofy a few people here decided to create to see who would follow along.

Wow, it's almost as if DataLounge where a bitchy gossip site for Gay men

Your will be no satan don’t take me

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 .

R45 well, if that’s true I am sure the rumors will be coming forward soon.

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.

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.

What else has DL lied to me about?! Next thing you know, you'll be saying Vivian's last husband wasn't gay.

R46 - Just so you know, R45 is mentally retarded

Why did Vicki Lawrence drop the Schultz? It sounded so lyrical.

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.

I can't imagine that NBC didn't have her under an exclusive contract by then, R52.

R50 sounds like you’re very well educated on the topic, since it appears you are mentally retarded, too. 💋

" since it appears you are mentally retarded, too"

A lot of that goin' around these days

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.”

Vicky has a smelly pussy.

Betty White was late to the Mama’s Family set because she stopped to rescue two dogs on her way:

I’ll bet Vicki wasn’t so happy that day.

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?

Was Rue jealous of Dorothy Lyman?

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.

Betty always always had the old lady haircut.

“Allen” was the name of her sled.

R61 Who isn't?

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.

Maybe she said, "Ellen"?

Vicki snagged an interview with the elusive Doris Day and handled her correctly: like a child.

My last word should I go tomorrow would be, Pammy. My cat.

Vickie needs a job. Anyone hiring???

I heard she whispered “Rosebud.”

Either this wallpaper goes or I do…

How come neither Carol or Vicki were never asked to guest star on The Golden Girls?

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."

But it opened the door for better things to come.

^ True, funny how fate works

You never know what's just around the corner.

Rue’s legs were always open to new things……..

[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?

Vicki should retire to her cabbage patch

Vicki is such a liar she actually said “LIVE FROM NEW YORK ITS SATURDAY NIGHT!!!”

Her last words were "Bea Arthur is a cunt."

Yikes, I feel bad for her cameo

R82: Cunts of a feather go to lunch together, Mrs. Ludden.

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.

"My Florida water" were allegedly Lucille Ball's last words.

R83 Why does VL have wrinkles under her nose in several of those photos?

I thought Betty White died in her sleep?

Bea Arthur seems like a pain in the ass.

The real news is Carol and Vicki are still alive and gossiping about the dearly departed. Classy!

[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."

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.

Hey Vicki at R92!

Please answer R88's question.

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.

Smell her snatch. Peeee youuuuuuuuu!

Are we sure she just wasn’t asking for a Luden’s cough drop?

I think I got high on those cough drops when I was in 9th grade, R96.

Wasn't Betty a beard for Ludden?

[quote] "The assistant said that Betty passed away peacefully in her sleep. I call BS."

I love Vicki Lawrence, but absolutely agree.

[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.

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

Mama Harper says fuck off, Iola!

I don't believe it. There.

My last word will be "credenza."

Betty White beard of a GAY husband

Betty White is dead?