“Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever,” Betty White’s agent and close friend Jeff Witjas tells PEOPLE in a statement
– people
This is the fastest I’ve ever seen feeds flood with information in regard to a celebrities death. I did not even have time to fact check it when her Wikipedia updated and articles upon articles are already out in regard to it.
Explaining in 2011 how she kept up her frantic pace even as an octogenarian, she explained that she only needed four hours of sleep each night.
– apnews.com
It did not feel real that she’s gone! I do not get attached to many actors as I know they don’t know me…etc. But I grew up on Golden Girls as a kid– saucy risque conversations from older women in my childhood is honestly what helped develop my personality.
We also had a generation (multiple) who did not view her as someone who would die in our generation. That she would in a way live on forever for whatever reason.
As all of our.. I don’t want to say grandmother — more like that great aunt who knows shit.
By David Shankbone – Betty White David Shankbone 2010 NYC, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14803241