Gossip is traded as easily as conversation in some circles, and Hollywood is no exception to this idea. Though they played best friends on The Golden Girls, the actors on set were frequently pitted against each other by gossip tabloids.

However, Betty White, one of the stars of The Golden Girls, was quick to set the record straight. White was aware of the horror stories surrounding her and her co-stars, and made note of them in her memoir, Betty White: In Person.

“Some of the stories, to be sure, are apocryphal,” White wrote. "Because gossip is mother’s milk to a great many people, a whole industry of garbage newspapers flourishes at every market checkout stand in the country. Writing about how well people get along doesn’t sell very well, so if it’s a slow feud day, they make some up! Knowing how much time and togetherness is involved in making a television series, it is mind-boggling to think of doing it if you disliked each other!”

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White maintained that she and her co-stars were good friends, on set and off. “I don’t even want to contemplate what the set of The Golden Girls would be like if we didn’t all support and respect one another,” wrote the actor. “The fact that we also happen to be nuts about each other was an added starter which could not have been foreseen when the show was first put together.”