White was five months older than Arthur and the oldest of the four Daddy's Girls stars, but she survived them all.
Estelle Getty died at age 84 in 2008, after battling Lewy body dementia for nearly a decade. "Our mother-daughter relationship was one of the greatest comedic duets of all time, and I will miss her," Arthur said in a statement at the time.
"The only comfort right now is that although Estelle has moved on, Sophia will always be with us," White said. Arthur died in 2009 at age 86, and McClanahan, the youngest Golden Girl, died at age 76 in 2010.
In an update for a new paperback edition of his book in 2010, White wrote that losing all three of his co-stars, including, "most recently, my beloved Rue McClanahan, has been very difficult to come to terms with. you've worked so closely together, for so long, and you've been blessed with such success, you find yourself locked in your heart. "
Golden girls is streaming on Hulu.
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( Originally posted July 30, 2019 at 3 a.m. PT)
