Star of Three’s Company Joyce DeWitt remembers her last encounter with John Ritter before his unexpected passing
Joyce DeWitt shot to fame when she was cast as Janet Wood in Three’s Company, a show that is today regarded as a cult classic.
She couldn’t have known how popular the program would become when she went in for an audition. Three roommates who shared a Santa Monica, California, apartment complex was the focus of the narrative. People from all over the world laughed a lot at their ongoing misunderstandings, social life, and financial troubles. 37 years after it came to a conclusion, Three’s Company is still well-liked in syndication and on DVD releases.
Together, DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, and John Ritter gave the program its current status as a true Hollywood classic.
It was a wonderful gift. It was truly iconic. Who would have believed it, though? According to Joyce DeWitt, The Spec. “The only goal we had was to make people laugh. I realize that the show was essentially an attempt to recreate a 16th-century farce in the modern era. It was about absurdity running amok. Even though we occasionally discussed serious topics, that was always present.
She continued, “John Ritter once said, ‘We don’t want people to merely laugh; we want them to fall over their sofa laughing. “The true problem was always the level of love and friendship those folks had for one another. They were popular because of that.
In 1984, after the program was cancelled, DeWitt felt she needed to take a sabbatical. She spent more than ten years out of the public eye, but things didn’t work out as planned. She didn’t regret being away from television because she values solitude and a tranquil existence.
It had come around, she remarked. “I was prepared for some solitude and thought. Janet was my favorite person to be, but she was never the only reason I got out of bed in the morning. She wasn’t the center of my identity or sense of worth, and that was obvious.
Yes, there is a time when you feel alone. As much as the actors who performed the characters did, I missed them too,” she continued. But I essentially live by myself. My inclination is to enter the cave and reflect rather than to howl outside. Oh, I’m social, but there’s also the inner Joyce, I suppose.
She didn’t start filming again until 1995, yet no project she has worked on since has been as successful as the series that launched her career.
Because she didn’t be paid as much as her male coworker, Suzanne Somers departed the show in 1980, four years before it was cancelled. She ceased communicating with everyone associated with the show, including DeWitt, since she was upset with the producers and the directors. Only when Somers asked DeWitt to appear as a guest on her talk show in 2012 did the two get back together.
After the show, DeWitt described her and Somers’ relationship as “quite different approaches to our jobs.” “Our needs were quite different. I didn’t support a child on my own since I didn’t have one. I couldn’t understand someone with a business head because I didn’t have one.
DeWitt had a close friendship with Ritter up until his dying in 2003, in contrast to her relationship with Somers.
DeWitt contacted the nearby hotel where he was staying a month before he passed away from an aortic dissection, an undiagnosed heart defect. He returned her call a few seconds after she left him a message.
According to Outsider, she claimed, “I pick up the phone as I’m walking out the door and it’s Johnathan.” We have three parties and a supper to attend tonight, he says. At seven, I’ll pick you up. It was quite tasty. and he went away a month later.
DeWitt hasn’t been married and hasn’t given birth, as far as we know. DeWitt is still very active now at the age of 72, both on stage and in the media.
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