White was 5 months older than Arthur and the earliest of the 4 Golden Girls stars, however she outlasted them all by more than a years prior to her death on Dec 31, simply 17 days shy of her 100 th birthday.
Estelle Getty passed away at 84 on July 22, 2008, having actually fought Lewy body dementia for nearly 10 years. “Our mother-daughter relationship was one of the greatest comic duos ever, and I will miss her,” Arthur stated in a declaration at the time.
“The only comfort at this moment is that although Estelle has moved on, Sophia will always be with us,” White stated. Arthur passed away April 25, 2009, at 86 and McClanahan, the youngest Golden Girl, passed away at 76 on June 3, 2010.
In an upgrade for a brand-new paperback edition of her book in 2010, White composed that losing all 3 of her co-stars, consisting of, “just recently, my beloved Rue McClanahan, has been very hard to take. When you work so closely together, for so long, and are blessed with such success, you wind up locked at the heart.”
Seasons 1-7 of The Golden Girls are streaming on Hulu.
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(Originally released July 30, 2019, at 3 a.m. PT)
