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Sarah Sherman learned her SNL checks were being sent to Gilda Radner's estate: 'I started hysterically sobbing'

'SNL' star Sarah Sherman shares 'crazy coincidence' of her residual checks being sent to the estate of late original cast member Gilda Radner, saying she started 'hysterically sobbing' and texted Lorne Michaels.

During a recent appearance on Vulture's Good One podcast, the SNL cast member shared how a Screen Actors Guild mixup connected her and Radner, one of the show's most beloved alums who was featured from its 1975 premiere to 1980, before she died of ovarian cancer in 1989. Sherman showed up as Wood's Chelsea, one of only a couple of actual White Lotus characters present in the sketch, along with Lizzo's portrayal of Natasha Rothwell's Belinda. After leaving SNL in a mass cast exodus in 1980, Radner made several movies with future husband Gene Wilder, including Hanky Panky, The Woman in Red, and Haunted Honeymoon.

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