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Posted on 01/04/2022 11:37:44 AM PST by Trillian
Betty White's last word was calling out the name of her late husband Allen Ludden prior to her death at 99 on Friday, according to her colleague Vicki Lawrence.
Lawrence, 72, told Page Six on Monday that she contacted friend Carol Burnett, 88, in the wake of White's passing.
Lawrence said, '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."'
She continued: 'Carol wrote back and said, "I know, I know. I spoke to Betty’s assistant, who was with her when she passed, and she said the very last word out of her mouth was Allen." How sweet is that? I said, "That is so sweet. God, I hope that’s true. For all of us, I really hope it’s true, a lovely thought."'
White, who was set to turn 100 years old January 17, was wed to Ludden from 1963 until his 1981 death from stomach cancer at the age of 63.
Lawrence was the star of the NBC series Mama’s Family, which ran from 1983-1990; White played the role of Ellen Harper Jackson on 16 episodes of the show.
She opened up on her professional experiences with the late comedy icon.
'Well, you didn’t really work with her, you just had a good time,' she said. 'Carol called it "playing in the sandbox," and I think that’s exactly what it was. Betty was just the perfect playmate.'
Lawrence described White as 'incredibly professional,' adding, 'I don’t remember her ever not being prepared or ever messing up her lines.'
Lawrence recalled White's loving nature with a story about how she once arrived an hour late to the set because she saved a pair of golden retrievers, 'because that’s what [she] would do.
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Apocryphal.
“Rosebud”
I thought she died in her sleep, after getting the booster?
Because she died in her sleep?
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LOL!! I've been thinking the same thing. Her agent said she "died peacefully in her sleep," then last night I saw a couple of articles that claim Betty's aide told Carol Burnett she'd called out to her late husband just before she died. Either she talked in her sleep, and her aide was in the room at the time to hear it, or she was found dead the next morning, having died in her sleep. It can't be both. If the aide was in her room at her time of death, and witnessed Betty talking, that means the aide was either sleeping with Betty, or was holding a vigil in her final hours. I realize that some people, when they die, do call out to loved ones, but is this just a fantasy created to make her death sound like it was more than what it was? Hollywood does love to make things up.
Can we just let her die. And be dead?
I liked her as much as the next guy.
But if millennials think she was cool because she was old, nice, and liked sex,, it just tells me that kids haven’t spent time with any old people.
Her last words: “Why did I take that damn booster shot!”
You’re bad :)
People tend to “see” former friends and family that have passed on right before they die themselves. I don’t see any reason why she couldn’t have mentioned her late husband, went back to sleep and then died later without ever saying anything else.
She was 99. 100 in a few weeks. She was bound to go sometime soon.
Yep I heard that nobody gets out of here alive.
That's how I hope to go, unlike the screaming passengers in my car.
Allan replied....the password is Jesus
Anecdotal. Where’s the data?
She was sweet to her last breath.
Who was, and why was anyone in her room that night to even hear her? They said she died peacefully in her sleep, which means she died, and they found her that way the next morning. They said she was in "good health" beforehand, but perhaps she wasn't, and required someone to be in the room with her 24 hours a day. Why they can't admit anything, and decide to tell "dueling" tales about her last moments is beyond me.
All I know for sure is that Betty White didn’t hang herself.
She is rumored to get the death shot 4 days prior.
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