Betty White’s agent revealed on Monday that the actress passed away less than three weeks before her 100th birthday due to “natural causes.”
Agent Jeff Witjas, who was also White’s close friend, said that White peacefully passed away at her home her sleep.
In a statement to People, Witjas also denied a debunked report claiming White had just gotten a COVID-19 booster shot days before her death.
“People are saying her death was related to getting a booster shot three days earlier, but that is not true. She died of natural causes,” he told the magazine. “Her death should not be politicized — that is not the life she lived.”
Moments before she died, White reportedly called out her late husband Allen Ludden’s name, White’s “Mama’s Family” co-star Vicki Lawrence revealed in an interview with Page Six.
“I texted Carol [Burnett] and said, ‘This just sucks. I hate this. It’s just horrible to see the people you love so much go away,’” Lawrence, 72, shared. “Carol wrote back and said, ‘I know, I know. I spoke to Betty’s assistant, who was with her when she passed, and she said the very last word out of her mouth was ‘Allen.’”
For more than eight decades, White had been a Hollywood fixture and later became a household name thanks to her roles in “The Golden Girls” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”
On December 31, the death of the 99-year-old was announced after LAPD officers responded to a 9:30 a.m. call at her home in Brentwood, Calif.
