Charlie’s Angels rocketed Farrah Fawcett into the celebrity stratosphere. Fawcett played Jill Munroe for a single season, yet she remains, to this day, one of the most iconic and recognizable stars of the series. Executive producer Aaron Spelling maintained that Fawcett never let the fame go to her head.

“We never had to talk to Farrah about [the fame], because she handled it very well,” Spelling wrote in his memoir, Aaron Spelling: A Prime-Time Life.

“We never felt that Kate or Jackie were jealous of what Farrah was achieving. Like Heather Locklear on Melrose Place, Farrah never flaunted her covers. In fact, she was kind of embarrassed about it. I do think, however, that Farrah’s success went to the heads of the people who were managing her.”

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Fawcett left the series in 1977, though Spelling didn’t blame her.

“That was strange,” Spelling wrote of the actor’s departure. “No one had ever done that to us before. I think Farrah was badly advised. You know, everybody eventually wants to go into motion pictures, but to try and do it in the first year of a series isn’t how it’s done.”

Spelling called the loss of Fawcett a “terrible blow.”

“We were stunned when we heard on the radio that Farrah was quitting,” wrote Spelling. “We didn’t want her to go. She was very important to the show, and we tried hard to enforce her contract into question. We went to court over the issue, and settled when she agreed to appear in six Charlie’s episodes over a two-year period. Farrah went off to make films like Sunburn and Somebody Killed My Husband, but her initial projects weren’t very successful. I believe it was because she upset so many of her fans. They loved her on Charlie’s Angels and didn’t like the idea that she quit the show.”