TMZ has reported that actress Betty White has passed away just weeks shy of her 100th birthday.
Her agent and close friend Jeff Witjas also reported Betty's passing to People magazine.
"Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever,"
I will miss her terribly and so will the animal world that she loved so much.
I don't think Betty ever feared passing because she always wanted to be with her most beloved husband Allen Ludden.
She believed she would be with him again." Witjas told PEOPLE in a statement on Friday.
However, the reasons for his death have not been disclosed, for now.
Betty White is best remembered for her roles in "The Golden Girls," "Boston Legal" and "Hot in Cleveland."
In fact, during the first half of her career, which came to be recognized by Guinness World Records as the
longest television career of a woman, White was a regular, if not very noticeable, presence on radio and television.
White was nominated twenty times for Emmy Awards and won seven times.
She was also a four-time Golden Globe nominee.
The filmography of the actress is extensive, both in film and on television.
There were comedies from the 1950s, a talk show in 1954, and even a role in the 1962 film
"Advise and Consent." Occasionally she appeared on game shows, especially on "Password," hosted by
her third husband, Allen Ludden.
"It was a bit out of place, a bit anti-female, being ... you shouldn't be funny," White recalled in a 2017
interview with CNN, reminiscing about her early days in Hollywood.
Then he recalled that in those days women were expected to just "come along and be pretty."
Betty White was a lovely woman and certainly a role model.
