7 August 2008 8:55 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
The collective reputation of TV's Golden Girls seemed to tarnish somewhat when word circulated that not a single cast member attended the funeral of costar Estelle Getty, who died July 22. But Betty White, who starred on the hit sitcom with Getty, Rue McClanahan and Bea Arthur, says no disrespect should be inferred. "We were with Estelle when it mattered," White, 86, tells Entertainment Tonight, reports Et.com. "I didn't go to her funeral and Paul, her wonderful caretaker, knew I wasn't going to her funeral." Getty had long suffered from a form of dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease. White also insists
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