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Bette Midler Recalls Lindsay Lohan Dropping Out of Her Sitcom 'Bette:' 'She Had Other Fish to Fry'

The 'Hocus Pocus' star revisits her one-season autobiographical sitcom, which she calls a 'big mistake.'

Midler played a version of herself on the one-season sitcom, which followed her grounded personal life at home with her college professor husband, Roy (Kevin Dunn, then Robert Hays in later episodes), and teenage daughter Rose (Lohan). Midler, who was an EP on the show, responded that she had been "kicked to the curb immediately" with no one guiding her through the process of the television world, adding, "But because I was so green, I didn't understand what my options were, what choices I could have made to improve my situation. Back in March, the Emmy winner made a post on X (formerly Twitter) about joining the cast of Bravo's The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

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