Mackenzie Phillips revealed she didn’t get along with Richard Masur on the set of “One Day at a Time.”
“Richard Masur wasn’t very nice,” Phillips said on Monday’s episode of former co-star Valerie Bertinelli’s “Getting Naked” podcast.
When Bertinelli pointed out that Masur only appeared in the first season of the sitcom, Phillips reiterated, “He wasn’t very nice.”
However, Phillips said she “made peace” with Masur, 77, when they ran into each other at an event years later.
“I saw him and he said, ‘I don’t even remember what it was. I don’t even remember what I said, but whatever I said, I’m really sorry. And I’ve always thought you were so incredibly talented and we were all so young,’” Phillips, 66, recalled.
Page Six reached out to Masur’s rep for comment.
Masur played divorce lawyer David Kane for one season on “One Day at a Time.” He left the show after his character dumped Bonnie Franklin’s Ann Romano and left town.
The sitcom, developed by late Hollywood icon Norman Lear, aired for nine seasons on CBS from 1975 to 1984. The cast included Phillips, Bertinelli, Franklin, Pat Harrington Jr. and Mary Louise Wilson.
During the podcast episode, Bertinelli, 66, admitted she was “always afraid” of “being reprimanded” by Lear.
“He was the one that immediately took me aside when I had to cry in the finale of the first season and I couldn’t do it,” she recalled. “And I couldn’t do it. I was too embarrassed. I wasn’t an actor. I was just learning how to do this.”
However, Bertinelli noted that she “felt very protected and was in awe” of Lear, who died in 2023 at age 101.
“Both of us are incredibly lucky to have such a mentor, and someone who wasn’t what you think Hollywood is, because young girls in Hollywood are eaten up and [spit] out, and we were not, under Norman’s tutelage,” Bertinelli told Phillips.
Phillips, for her part, explained that she “had a wonderful relationship” with the legendary producer.
“I pedestalized him,” she shared. “I always adored Norman. I loved Norman. I trusted Norman.”
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