Betty White Says She "Wasted A Whole Year" By Not Marrying Allen Ludden Sooner

Dec 30, 2019 by apost team

Betty White is everyone's favorite bad-ass grandma. At a young 97 years old, she still inspires us all with her witty comebacks, grace, and powerful personality. However, she admits that she has one big regret: not marrying her third husband, Allen Ludden, sooner.

Betty White was married twice before she found the love of her life, Allen Ludden, a game show host. The happy couple was married for 18 years before very sadly Ludden succumbed in 1981 to stomach cancer.

Betty White was very briefly married to Dick Barker in 1945. Her second marriage, in 1947, only lasted two years. Betty White says her then-husband, Lane Allen, tried to force her out of show business so she divorced him. 

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"He didn't want me to be in show business," the star revealed, as per the Insider. "When you have a calling you have to follow it, so I made the choice, blew the marriage and I've never regretted it."

Good thing she made the correct choice there. She has been in show business, very successfully, for 80 years so far.She met the love of her life when she was 39. She appeared on Ludden's show and the two fell in love. Ludden was a father of three children whose mother had sadly died of cancer in 1961. Ludden proposed to Betty White at least twice over the course of a year before she finally said yes. The couple eventually married in 1963.

Betty White admitted to Oprah that not accepting his proposal the first time is her biggest regret. She said:

"I spent a whole year, wasted a whole year that Allen and I could have had together, saying, 'No, I wouldn't marry him. No, I won't. No, I won't leave California," White revealed. "No, I won't move to New York."

"I wasted a whole year," she added.

Betty White is currently working on her show Hot in Cleveland and as usual isn't letting anything or anyone stop her from achieving her dreams.In addition to her amazing career in TV and movies, Betty White is also active in advocating for animals. She has been an instrumental figure in the Morris Animal Foundation and is on the board of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association. She has received several awards honoring her for her charitable work with animals, including an award from the American Veterinary Medical Association in 1987.

If you are inspired by Betty White, and who isn't, you should discuss this story with everyone you know.