Estelle Getty

In her book ‘If You Ask Me’, acting legend Betty White - who passed away the last day of 2021 just weeks before her 100th birthday - revealed that her ‘Golden Girls’ co-star Estelle Getty (1923–2008) was petrified about passing away.

A paragraph of the publication read: “She was so afraid that the writers on ‘The Golden Girls’ couldn't put a dead joke in the script. This was early on, long before she ever got ill.”