Sally Struthers Reveals She Once Dated Elvis Presley 'for a While': 'Nicest Man I Ever Met'

Mar. 15, 2025

Sally Struthers; Elvis Presley.Photo:Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic; Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty

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Sally Strutherscouldn’t help falling forElvis Presley.

TheAll in the Familyactress, 77, revealed in a new interview that she once dated The King “for a while,” and that she has nothing but fond memories of their time together.

“That was fun,” she said in the Jan. 13 episode of theLet’s Talk About That! With Larry Saperstein and Jacob Bellottipodcast. “He was probably the nicest man I ever met. He was so polite and so kind and soft-hearted that you just couldn’t believe anybody that was that beautiful had never caught on that they were beautiful and gotten obsessed with themselves.”

She continued, “He was just all about kindness to everyone, which is pretty great.”

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Struthers did not share when she and Presley dated, though she married psychiatrist William C. Rader in 1977, the same year Presleydied at age 42. She and Rader divorced in 1983 after welcoming a daughter, Samantha.

Presley, meanwhile, divorced wifePriscilla Presleyin 1973 after six years of marriage. Over the years, he had romances with costarAnn-Margret,Linda ThompsonandGinger Alden, to whom he was engaged when he died.

Elsewhere on the podcast, Struthers spoke less glowingly of the lateAll in the Familyshowrunner Norman Lear, as well asThe Golden GirlsstarBetty White.

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“She said, in front of everyone, ‘Oh, I wouldn’t do that if I were you, dear. You don’t need a cookie,’” she recalled. “Totally fat-shamed me in front of the rest of the people in the room. And I thought, ‘Gosh, that’s not nice.’”

“All those years on the show, Norman and his wife would have dinner parties,” she said. Although the other stars of the show — Carroll O’Connor,Jean StapletonandRob Reiner— and their spouses were often invited, Struthers claimed, “I wasn’t, in eight years, invited to his home. It didn’t feel good.”

TheA Man on the Insideactress also said that after five seasons, she even sought legal counsel to help her leave the show, but after spending $40,000 on legal fees during arbitration, she lost.

source: people.com