Actress Meghann Fahy has fond memories of playing the younger version of a character played by Hollywood legend Betty White in the 2011 Hallmark movie “The Lost Valentine.” The comedy icon, perhaps best known for her role as Rose on “The Golden Girls,” died on December 31, 2021 — weeks shy of her 100th birthday.
Although White and Fahy didn’t share any scenes in their Hallmark movie, they still got to know each other, Fahy told Jimmy Kimmel on his late-night talk show on April 8, 2025. And one thing Fahy will never forget is what White ate and drank every single day.
Meghann Fahy Says Betty White Ate Chocolate Cake Every Day — For Breakfast
Now starring on the hit show “The White Lotus,” Fahy’s first movie was “The Lost Valentine.” The Hallmark classic is about White’s character, whose Navy Lieutenant husband was never found after his plane went down during World War II. A reporter, played by Jennifer Love Hewitt, begins working on a story about the 65th anniversary of the widow returning to Union Station each year, where she last saw her husband.
When Kimmel asked about working with White, Fahy said, “I played a younger version of her so we were never on the set at the same time, but we crossed paths a bit and, you know, she loved drinking vodka on ice and eating chocolate cake for breakfast, like a real, true legend.”
Shocked, Kimmel said, “That’s crazy! She lived a very long time. Was she drinking the vodka with the cake?”
“On set, yeah!” Fahy joked, but quickly clarified, “No, she wasn’t on set, she wasn’t drinking on set.”
“Wow, that’s pretty crazy,” Kimmel said again, and Fahy offered, “I think she just sort of moved through life in this amazing way. 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.”
Kimmel noted she also learned she could “drink vodka and eat chocolate cake your whole life and it’s not gonna really make a difference at all.”
Fahy, who stars in the new thriller “Drop,” laughed, “Yes, it’s the secret! I started then. I was about 20. I thought, ‘If that’s working for her, it’s definitely gonna work for me.”
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Fahy’s not the only one who picked up on White’s affinity for vodka while filming “The Lost Valentine.” In 2018, Hewitt revealed on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” that she’d become close with White and that she “loves pizza and vodka.”
“So, we went out one night, we were filming and we went out,” Hewitt recalled. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m going on a date with Betty White! The most nervous date I’ve ever been on in my life, by the way.”
“We go out,” she continued. “We’re chatting and having the best time. I don’t drink a lot. Maybe three-and-a-half vodkas in, I was like, ‘Whoa, I’m feeling this dinner with Betty White!'”
As they were leaving, Hewitt said she noticed White looking very tipsy as she tried to walk out and that she, too, felt like she was swaying.
Hewitt recalled, “I was like, ‘Oh my god, I’m the bodyguard of a national treasure! Like, you’ve got to snap it together! Don’t kill Betty White on your date!'”
Once they got back to their hotel, Hewitt said White asked her up to her room, where they snacked on a nightcap of gummy bears.
She concluded, “We got drunk, we had gummy bears, it was amazing!”
“The Lost Valentine” is available to stream on Hallmark+ and re-runs of “Golden Girls” air most evenings on Hallmark Channel.
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