TV Show Casts That Couldn't Stand Each Other
As the old saying goes, two's company and three's a crowd — and for the "Three's Company" cast, three really was a crowd. The show's stars, Suzanne Somers, Joyce DeWitt, and John Ritter, were the best of friends on screen, but the televised roommates had interpersonal rifts behind the cameras. For Somers, issues began when she was renegotiating her contract ahead of Season 6. "They fired me for asking to be paid commensurate with the men," she later told ET. The actor added that she was seen as greedy, and because of it, she stopped speaking with her former costars, who allegedly "shunned" her.
Years later, though, Somers and DeWitt reunited on the "Suzanne Somers Breaking Through" talk show and discussed their falling out. Somers shared that she asked for a pay raise because she was a single mother trying to support her child. DeWitt responded apologetically, noting, "We had very different approaches to our careers. We had very different needs. I did not have a child that I was supporting on my own. I didn't have a business head, so I didn't understand someone who did."
Somers also revealed to ET that Ritter reached out to her about a month prior to his 2003 death to say he "forgave" her. "[It] took a lot of maturity on my part to say, 'You forgive me?' So I said, 'thanks,'" she admitted, noting that they planned to reunite on a project together. "I love resolution and peace," Somers explained.
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