Estelle Getty, May She Rest in Peace

[Senusret I]

I wonder if they were invited?

Originally Posted by Senusret I

I wonder if they were invited?

Found this while digging:

TV's Inside Edition caught up with Estelle Getty's son, Carl, to get
to the bottom of why the living Golden Girls skipped out on her
funeral.



Carl told the show, "They would certainly have been welcome. I don't
know why they wouldn't be attending mom's funeral. Maybe it's a
painful thing…As for the rest of them you're going to have to ask them
how they felt about it and why they did or didn't come."



Inside Edition took Carl's advice and reached out to the ladies.

Bea "Dorothy" Arthur, told the show she's been grieving for years over
Getty's long decline due to dementia, and could not deal with the
emotion of a funeral: "She's been out of it so many years, not
recognizing anyone. It's a Godsend. She's at peace."



Rue "Blanche" McClanahan, said that she couldn't attend the funeral
because she recently had surgery: "I'd like them to know that I didn't
[attend the funeral] because I can't fly right now with knee surgery.
I don't know why Betty and Bea didn't go, maybe because they, too,
have said their goodbyes to her when she was alive."



The show did not speak with Betty White, but they learned that she
sent a bouquet of flowers with a card that read, "Love, Betty White."
In quotes she added the name of her character on the show, "Rose."

And there you have it.



Estelle's son seems to have perceived the absences as a snub, though.
Says Carl: "If it was someone I'd been tight with like that and worked
with all those years I'd have been there."

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