Their chemistry was legendary, but behind the laughs and cheesecake, the Golden Girls had a complicated off-screen dynamic.

The creators of The Golden Girls revealed shocking details about the feud between Betty White and Bea Arthur during the beloved 1980s sitcom.

Betty White and Bea Arthur were not friends outside of The Golden Girls. The veteran sitcom stars, who co-starred together on the NBC hit from 1985 to 1992, reportedly couldn’t stand each other ...

“In my closeted, panicked, paranoid brain, all I knew is that at that moment Bea Arthur was offering me a dress to wear around the house, and I wish I had been in a place where I could have said ...

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While millions of fans have thanked Bea Arthur and Betty White — and the rest of their Golden Girls costars — for being their friend, the actresses weren’t always close. “It was almost like Betty ...

"Those two couldn’t warm up to each other if they were cremated together,” co-producer Marsha Posner Williams joked.

Betty White and Bea Arthur sign copies of “The Golden Girls: Season 3” DVD at Barnes & Noble on Nov. 22, 2005, in New York City. Getty Images ...

McClanahan, however, said that wasn’t always the case, revealing that White never had any big problems with Arthur. “Betty was a big fan of Bea,” McClanahan told TV Guide in April 2009.