Her agent, Jeff Witjas, said that he never let White forget about that love.

“She knew it, but I would tell her often,” Witjas toldPeople.

You’re getting your fan letters, I’m getting offers for you.'"

Betty White smiling

“I don’t know if she ever embraced it, [or] really, really felt it.

The extent of it.

I really don’t,” he continues.

Betty White

“I would always reinforce it with her because I always felt she should know that.

It never did.”