Bea Arthur Called Betty White a What?

Tribute to Golden Girls comic recalls her funny—often dirty—comments
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 15, 2009 9:07 AM CDT
Bea Arthur Called Betty White a What?
This Dec. 25, 1985 file photo shows the stars of the television series "The Golden Girls" during a break in taping in Hollywood, Calif.   (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

Bea Arthur’s sharp humor and potty mouth were remembered at yesterday’s tribute to the late actor, People reports. Recollections ranged from the reverent—“She really taught me how to be a feminist,” said Rosie O’Donnell—to the raunchy—“God, I want to f--- him,” Arthur once said of Alec Baldwin. But it was Golden Girls co-star Rue McClanahan who brought the house down with her memory of an intoxicated Arthur.

“Rue, I love,” said Arthur when introduced to McClanahan’s husband—but wasn’t so complimentary of fellow co-star Betty White: “Betty's a cunt.” (More Betty White stories.)

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