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Betty White was known to indulge like a “legend,” according to one of her former costars.
Meghann Fahy, who played a younger version of White’s character in the 2011 Hallmark movie The Lost Valentine, shared her memories of the Golden Girls star during a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday, April 8.
While the two didn’t share screen time in the film, the White Lotus star, 34, recalled witnessing White’s taste for two treats in particular.
“We crossed paths a bit, and she loved drinking vodka on ice and eating chocolate cake for breakfast, like a real, true legend,” Fahy said.
“That’s crazy,” Kimmel replied. “She lived a very long time. Was she drinking the vodka with the cake?”
Fahy clarified that White, who died at the age of 99 on Dec. 31, 2021, wasn’t drinking on the set of the movie, in which she played a military widow whose pilot husband never returned from duty in World War II.
“I think she just sort of moved through life in this amazing way,” Fahy added. “It was so cool for me to meet her that early on in my career, and learn that you can be as incredible as that, and still be so human and not fussy.”
The talk show host then observed, “You can just drink vodka and eat cake your whole life and it’s not going to really make a difference at all.”
“It’s the secret,” Fahy joked. “I started then. I was about 20. I thought, ‘If that’s working for her, it’s definitely going to work for me.’”
White shared her preference for the clear, alcoholic beverage in a 2018 interview with Parade, in which she offered her “recipe for living a long, happy life.”
The TV icon, also known for her roles on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Hot in Cleveland, admitted that she loved vodka and hot dogs, “probably in that order.”
She also advised trying to focus on simply enjoying life.
“Accentuate the positive, not the negative,” she said. “It sounds so trite, but a lot of people will pick out something to complain about, rather than say, ‘Hey, that was great!’ It’s not hard to find great stuff if you look.”
Sandra Bullock, who co-starred with White in 2009’s The Proposal, included a nod to her drink of choice when sharing well wishes ahead of what would have been White’s 100th birthday.
Bullock told PEOPLE she hoped White would embrace her birthday “the same way she has celebrated every day of her life with humor, kindness and a vodka on ice, toasting to the fact that she’s a badass who has left us all in the dust.”
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