Patricia Richardson, who starred as household matriarch Jill Taylor on the hit ABC sitcom Dwelling Enchancment, stated she used the big pay hole between her and co-star Tim Allen to keep away from persevering with with the present.
“I informed everyone, ‘There’s not sufficient cash on the planet to get me to do a ninth yr,’” she stated in a brand new interview with the Los Angeles Instances. “This present is over. It wants to finish.”
Richardson claims ABC provided her $1 million per episode and Allen $2 million per episode for a 25-episode ninth season. Allen was keen, however Richardson needed to spend extra time along with her household within the wake of her divorce from Ray Baker.
Nonetheless, she claimed gave her pitch to ABC: pay her the identical quantity as Allen and provides her an government producer credit score on the present. Then would she signal on for an additional season.
She provided it realizing it was doomed.
“I knew that Disney would by no means pay me that a lot,” she informed the Instances. “That was my option to say ‘no’ and was a bit of little bit of a flip-off to Disney. I’d been there all this time, they usually by no means even paid me a 3rd of what Tim was making, and I used to be working my ass off. I used to be an enormous purpose why girls have been watching.”
The present ended after its eighth season in 1999. That led to some dangerous blood.
“I used to be mad at Tim as a result of he was leaving me alone, being the one particular person saying no, which made me really feel horrible and just like the dangerous man,” she stated, “and he was upset with me for leaving.”
Richardson and Allen later reunited on his sequence Final Man Standing. She stated she’s “by no means stopped loving working with him.”