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Bette Midler has quite the storied career, but the award-winning star still has a few regrets when it comes to certain projects.
On the newest episode of David Duchovny's podcast, "Fail Better," the actress admitted her short-lived sitcom Bette was a big "mistake," and she partly blamed costar Lindsay Lohan for the show's failure.
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"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," the Emmy winner, 78, explained of not having sitcom experience.
"I had made theatrical live events. I had made films. I had made variety television shows. I had been on talk shows," she continued. "But I had never done a situation comedy. I didn’t realize what the pace was. And I didn’t understand what the hierarchy was. And no one bothered to tell me."
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"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've taken charge," she added.
The series, which ran from October 2000 to March 2001, lasted only one season before being cancelled — something Midler predicted around the time the Parent Trap actress, 37, quit after filming the first episode.
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"After the pilot, Lindsay Lohan decided 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? And the studio didn’t help me," Midler shared of her frustration.
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"It was extremely chaotic ... and if I had been in my right mind, or if I had known that part of my duties were to stand up and say, ‘This absolutely will not do, I’m going to sue,’ then I would have done that," the comedian confessed. "But I seem to have been cosseted in some way that I couldn’t get to the writer’s room. I couldn’t speak to the showrunner. I couldn’t make myself clear."
Since everything was such a mess, Midler spilled she was "thrilled" when the show got the axe.
Oddly enough, just a few days before the podcast episode aired, Lohan uploaded a Bette promotional photo of herself and Midler for a throwback Thursday Instagram post on May 2.
"Had such a blast filming with the incredible @bettemidler 💕 #tbt," the Freaky Friday lead captioned the shot.