Wendi McLendon-Covey, who performs Beverly Goldberg on the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs, has opened up in regards to the present killing off her on-screen husband, performed by Jeff Garlin, which she stated: “was a long time coming.”
Garlin, who performed household patriarch Murray Goldberg, departed the present final 12 months following HR investigations into his alleged inappropriate habits on set. At the beginning of the at present airing tenth season, it was revealed that Murray had handed away.
“That was a long time coming, and that it finally happened, it was like, ‘Okay, okay. Finally, someone is listening to us,’” McLendon-Covey stated throughout an interview on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live on Tuesday, March 21.
Garlin’s exit got here not lengthy after the passing of George Segal, who performed Pops on the present, which means The Goldbergs needed to cope with two vital losses inside a 12 months.
“We had lost George Segal in real life, and then to have to go through another loss on a sitcom; you can’t keep asking your audience to mourn people… That’s not why they tune in,” McLendon-Covey acknowledged.
When Cohen tried to deliver the dialog again to Garlin and the explanation behind his departure, McLendon-Covey stated, “If we cannot talk about that, would be great. I’m exhausted by that topic and the PTSD of it all.”
She later added, “I feel like the less people know about that, the better. No one, no one benefits from knowing anything.”
The Goldbergs is at present airing its last season, with the sequence finale scheduled for Wednesday, May 3. Meanwhile, McLendon-Covey seems to be sticking on the earth of single-camera sitcoms, as she was lately added to the NBC pilot St. Denis Medical.
The Goldbergs, Season 10, Wednesdays, 8:30/7:30c, ABC