There was a lot of scuttlebutt going around awhile back that she was a total b!tch in real life. Terribly difficult to work with and treated the people around her like sh!t.
Don’t know if that was accurate or not.
I enjoyed her in the various comedy programs.
I do recall that ‘Valerie’ become ‘Valerie’s Family’ and later ‘The Hogan Family’. At the time, the rumors were that she was dropped due to her demands for a higher salary.
Side note: One of the funniest episodes ever on broadcast TV was the Hogan Family episode, ‘Baby Mark’, with Sandy Duncan. [HOGAN FAMILY: Ep. 58, S4: “Save Baby Mark”]
I know she walked off her show “Valerie” and the studio fired her which pretty much says something being that it was her show. That would be like the studio firing Mary Tyler Moore from the Mary Tyler Moore show or Dick Van Dyke from the Dick Van Dyke show, that just doesn’t happen.