Why all the hostility towards Susan Dey?

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Originally Posted by TMC

Back in 2004, when the Partridge Family cast sans Susan Dey, appeared together on NBC's Today Show, somebody wrote this about Susan:

I do agree with the argument that Susan in interviews could come across as really cold and distant. Take for example, this interview that she did with Arsenio Hall circa 1992 (around the time that she was leaving LA Law):


I don't know how to fully or properly explain it. There are several people in the comments section who have speculated that Susan may have been under the influence in that interview with Arsenio Hall. Maybe it's because, Susan was based on the tone of her voice, speaking very slowly and flatly, as if she's being very careful with the words that she wants to say. She in a way, does kind of give of this "I don't want to be here!" energy because she just sounds so self-serious, matter of fact or literal, and speaking without a hint of irony.

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I also believe that the hostility towards Susan stems from the idea or notion that she was basically, a practitioner in "ghosting" before that was even a publicly known term or named form of behavior.

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‘Partridge Family’ Star Danny Bonaduce Gives Rare Update on Susan Dey and Shirley Jones

Bonaduce also spoke about Susan Dey, the actress who played his sister Laurie Partridge on the ‘70s sitcom before moving on to a starring role on L.A. Law in the 1980s. When asked if it was true that Dey wanted nothing to do with The Partridge Family, Bonaduce confirmed that it was the case.

“But I don’t think it’s like it was,” he clarified. “I thought it was like a real bad thing of bad memories. It’s just not her thing. She just doesn’t want to be famous. She wants nothing…she has a normal job in upstate New York. But I always thought. ‘You want nothing to do with it? Why? It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. Why?’ But it’s just not her thing. Like, I really liked being famous.”

Bonaduce noted he wasn’t “exactly sure” what Dey did for work after leaving the entertainment industry decades ago. “A regular job with an office, but I don’t know if she still does it. She’s got to be 73 or four,” he added.

Dey seemingly cut ties with her Partridge Family past sometime in the 1990s. In 2000, series star David Cassidy told The Deseret News he hadn’t spoken to Dey in nearly a decade and actually wrote her a letter to clear the air.

“I never heard a response, and I don’t know why. Neither has Shirley, neither has Danny, neither has any of them,” he said at the time. “I really feel badly that Susan Dey, for whatever her own personal reasons, can’t embrace the fact that she was 16, 17 years old, and millions of people loved her for that. You don’t have to prove that you’re so serious. We know you’re serious. In life, be thankful.”