The Goldbergs star Wendi McLendon-Covey has responded to Jeff Garlin’s resignation from the show amid reports of ‘inappropriate behaviour’.
Murray Goldberg, the 60-year-character old’s on the ABC sitcom, was killed off between the ninth and tenth seasons.
That arose after complaints emerged from three employees working on the comedy that Garlin had ‘engaged in a pattern of verbal and physical behaviour on set that made others uncomfortable.’
Garlin then confirmed to The Goldbergs’ HR staff that he had been investigated for three years for’my behaviour on set,’ but fiercely denied ever ‘physically coming at anyone’ and denied being dismissed.
McLendon-Covey, who portrays Beverly Goldberg on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM radio show, Radio Andy, discussed the departure of the Toy Star 3 star on Tuesday.
When asked how she felt about Murray’s death, the Real Housewives producer answered, ‘It was a long time coming.’
‘That it finally happened it was like, “Ok, ok, finally someone is listening to us”
The 53-year-old continued: ‘It was hard as we’d lost Goerge Segal in real life and then to have to go through another loss on a sitcom. You know, you can’t keep asking your audience to mourn people.’
Segal, who played Albert ‘Pops’ Solomon on The Goldbergs, died in 2021 at the age of 87 due to complications from bypass surgery.
Pressed further about Garlin by Cohen, 54, she said: ‘If we cannot talk about that it would be great. I am exhausted by that topic and the PTSD from it all.’
Cohen reassured her she was being ‘obnoxious’ by making the matter off-limitss,’ while Worried she was being ‘obnoxious’ by making the subject off-limitss.’
‘I feel like the less people know about it, the better. No one benefits from knowing anything,’ she added.
Garlin previously told Vanity Fair: ‘If I threatened people, that’s an unsafe work atmosphere. None of that goes on ever with me. That’s not who I am. I am sorry to tell you that there really is no big story. Unless you want to do a story about political correctness.’
In response to charges that he made people uncomfortable by embracing them, he stated, ‘I am a person who hugs for sure.
‘And it’s quick hugs, but I didn’t realise that anyone was feeling – so if you want to write that story, that’s a true story.
‘It puts the onus on them to say something, and I would gladly respect anyone who said, “Please don’t hug me. I don’t feel comfortable.”’
The Goldbergs premiered in 2013 and is partially based on the childhood of creator Adam F Goldberg.
Source My Celebrity Life.