Loni Anderson Death: Rare Cancer Causes Star’s Passing

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Loni Anderson starred as Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinnati. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

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Following her death, “I Dream of Jeannie” star and longtime friend of anderson’s, Barbara Eden told Fox News Digital she feels “very lonely now that she’s not here,” explaining “she was just a very special, kind, sweet, good mother” and that “you can’t say anything bad about her.”

The two met in 1981 while filming a special for comedian Bob Hope. Eden recalled running into Anderson backstage after putting on her costume, which she referred to as “ugly.”

“I walked out of the hallway, and there was Loni. She looked at me and said, ‘You can’t wear those!'” the 93-year-old laughed.”‘You’ve got to tell them, go tell them.You’re going to change them.’ I didn’t even know her then. but we had such a good laugh later about it. And I did go and say, ‘I’ll have the skin-colored hosiery, not white!’ I think she was just really what my mother would call ‘a good egg.'”

Eden went on to say that Anderson “is still remembered for being a stunning, kind, just wonderful human being.”

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eden and Anderson first met in 1981 while filming a special for Bob Hope. (Vince Bucci/Getty Images)

“I’m so happy that I got to know her and that we were friends. She was just everything fun. You wouldn’t think a glamour girl like Loni would be fun. But she was fun and funny. And she was also a really good mother. Her daughter is a school principal,and her son was just adorable. I’ve met him many times. She just did a good job with everything.”

Anderson adopted her son, Quinton Anderson Reynolds, in 1988, with her then-husband, actor Burt Reynolds.

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