Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers. Getty Pictures (2)
Actress Joyce Dewitt is providing her condolences following the dying of her former Three’s Firm costar Suzanne Somers.
“My coronary heart goes out to Suzanne’s household,” DeWitt, 74, mentioned in a press release to Us Weekly on Monday, October 16. “They’re a really shut household — deeply related and caring one to the opposite. I can solely think about how troublesome this time is for all of them.”
She continued: “I’m positive Suzanne was greeted by Angels into the loving knowledge ready for all of us on the opposite aspect, and I hope that may help her household’s hearts in therapeutic as they journey by means of this troublesome time.”
Somers handed away on the age of 76 on Sunday, October 15, following a two-decade-long battle with breast most cancers. “She survived an aggressive type of breast most cancers for over 23 years,” R. Couri Hay, Somers’ longtime publicist, mentioned in a press release to Us. “Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband Alan, her son Bruce, and her instant household.”
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Sunday would have marked Somers’ 77th birthday. Regardless of the loss, Hay famous that her household would nonetheless “rejoice her extraordinary life” in her reminiscence. “[They] need to thank her tens of millions of followers and followers who beloved her dearly,” Hay’s assertion concluded. “A personal household burial will happen this week, with a memorial to comply with subsequent month.”
Somers and DeWitt starred alongside the late John Ritter on the hit sitcom Three’s Firm, which ran for eight seasons from 1976 to 1984. The present adopted the hijinks of Ritter’s John Tripper after he strikes into an condominium with two single women, Janet Wooden and Chrissy Snow, performed by DeWitt and Somers, respectively.
Somers was fired from the present in 1980 after demanding pay fairness with Ritter. Her departure from the present additionally marked the tip of her friendship with DeWitt, although the 2 made amends throughout a February 2012 episode of Somers’ speak present Suzanne Somers Breaking Via.
“It’s time [to reunite]. I believe that you simply gave me the chance to be sure that I stroll my speak for the final 30-odd years,” DeWitt mentioned through the emotional reunion. “At any time when one thing about Three’s Firm comes up, I’ve relentlessly mentioned that it’s my opinion that the one cause Three’s Firm is price remembering is that it created a chance for all of us to giggle collectively, to rejoice pleasure. It’s a profound present.”
When it got here to their falling out, DeWitt famous that she and Somers had “very completely different approaches” to their careers as Somers was centered on being profitable to help her son, Bruce Jr., whom she shared with ex-husband Bruce Somers. “We had very completely different wants. I didn’t have a toddler that I used to be supporting alone,” DeWitt added. “I didn’t have a enterprise head, so I didn’t perceive somebody who did.”
Somers, for her half, shared that she revered and revered DeWitt’s formal appearing coaching. “I do need you to know the way a lot I discovered from watching you,” she informed her former forged mate.
Final yr, Somers proposed the concept of a Three’s Firm reboot. Throughout an interview on the “Behind the Velvet Rope” podcast, she steered that the collection may comply with the son of her and Ritter’s characters and that the kid could possibly be performed by Ritter’s personal son, actor Jason Ritter. (John died in 2003 on the age of 54 attributable to an aortic dissection.)
“I had steered this to Jason’s individuals and that the present could be me and Jason, however that John would seem as a hologram as a result of it’d be like he was again and alive,” she defined on the podcast in April 2022. “However Jason doesn’t need to do something harking back to what his father did.”
