How Y&R's Melody Thomas Scott Got Involved In Suzanne Somers' Three's Company Drama
Matthew Cannon
Soap star Melody Thomas Scott explained to TV Insider that during the feud between the "Three's Company" stars, both John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt would go to great lengths to avoid Suzanne Somers. "I had both John and Joyce at separate times frantically knock on my dressing room door, which was in the main hallway," Scott said. "I opened my door once and John Ritter was there and he said, 'Hi, I'm so sorry. I'm John Ritter. Can I come in here for a minute?' I said, 'Sure, okay!' Initially, I had no idea what was going on."
The disagreement between the actors started when Somers asked to have the same pay as Ritter and was unceremoniously fired. Thankfully, in February 2012, DeWitt appeared on Somers' talk show, "Breaking Through," and the two buried the hatchet. Fox News reported in December 2017 that Somers recalled Ritter had phoned her about a month before he died, and the two also patched things up.
Scott was not without her own on-set issues but on a lesser scale. In 2020, Smashing Interviews posted a discussion with Scott who explained that because she dated and married Edward J. Scott, who was the executive producer of "The Young and the Restless" in 1985, some of her co-workers became resentful, including Jeanne Cooper, who played Katherine Chancellor. In the end, they thankfully fixed their friendship and remained friendly until Cooper's death on May 8, 2013.