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

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Bette Midler Recalls Lindsay Lohan Dropping Out of Her Sitcom 'Bette:' 'She Had Other Fish to Fry'
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The 'Hocus Pocus' star revisits her one-season autobiographical sitcom, which she calls a 'big mistake.'

podcast. Calling the experience a"big mistake," the veteran actress theorized that one of the show's biggest failures was the exit of . Does it get any more generic than that? A big, big, big mistake," Midler recalled with Duchovny."I think for several reasons. It was the wrong motivation. It was a part of the media I simply did not understand. I watched it. I appreciated it. I enjoyed it, but I didn't know what it meant to make it.

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. I didn't know that I could have taken charge.

Midler said that her time on the sitcom ultimately became too"taxing," and she was"thrilled" once it came to an end."The mad scramble to keep up was just too intense," she added. "Is it too late for me to become a Real Housewife of Beverly Hills? I've never watched it, but I am in the mood to talk some s**t," she wrote."And to get paid for it? A dream! #RHOBH."

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