Bette Midler said she wishes she had sued a teenage Lindsay Lohan after the child actor dropped out of her short-lived sitcom «Bette» following the pilot episode in 2000.
Bette Midler has regrets about her short-lived sitcom, which she called a «big, big mistake.»
The actress and singer said she wishes she had sued after a young Lindsay Lohan pulled out of the «Hocus Pocus» star’s eponymous comedy «Bette» following the pilot episode 24 years ago.
«I believe it would have worked if I had had a team that was on my side,» Midler told David Duchovny on his «Fail Better» podcast of her 2000 to 2001 CBS show in which she played a version of herself.
She continued, «Things happened that were so astonishing. I didn’t know those things could happen. For instance, Lindsay Lohan was cast as my daughter in the pilot. Well, after the pilot she decided that she didn’t want to do it, or she had other fish to fry. So, Lindsay Lohan left the building and I said, ‘Well, now what do you do?’»
She said the studio didn’t help her after Lohan’s departure, adding, «It was extremely chaotic.
