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The hit show “Married… With Children” had its fair share of drama behind the scenes.
Stars Christina Applegate and Katey Sagal recently opened up about the brutally honest atmosphere among cast members on the set of the iconic ‘90s series.
“We were a sarcastic, cynical bunch,” Sagal revealed on her “Pie” podcast with husband Kurt Sutter. “You weren’t safe, really. You turned your back, somebody’s going to talk about you.”
Applegate, the guest on the podcast, shared a moment when she overheard people trash-talking her while she was in her dressing room.
“I could hear being talked about in my dressing room on the monitor,” she said. “I’d come up from rehearsal and I can hear everybody on set, literally talking about me.”
Sagal played Applegate’s onscreen mother on the show, which aired from 1987 to 1997.
‘Married… With Children’ actors Christina Applegate, David Faustino, Ed O’Nell, and Katy Sagal pose for a portrait in October 1988. (Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)
Applegate previously revealed that the pressures she faced on “Married … with Children” led to her developing an eating disorder.
In March, the “Dead to Me” actress opened up about being a child star and how it deeply impacted her health being in the spotlight.
“Playing that character kind of did things to me in my psyche that were no bueno – like anorexia,” she explained on her “MeSsy” podcast while speaking to guest Sagal at the time.
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Applegate said that she never told anyone about the disorder and was “very, very private about it.”
Christina Applegate said she developed an eating disorder while starring on the show. (Aaron Rapoport / TM and ©Fox Network. All rights reserved. / Courtesy Everett Collection; Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic)
“I would hide in bathrooms to eat, because I had so much shame around eating that I would hide on the airplanes, like when we went to London,” she said.
Sagal agreed that Applegate was “very much scrutinized” on the show because she was the “sex symbol.”
Being a sex symbol at 17 would “mess with” anyone’s head, Sagal said, adding that “it was a very misogynistic show.”
“Chrissy was very much scrutinized and tried to keep in a box,” Sagal continued. “… So they put her in tighter skirts and shorter skirts, so, there was a lot of that.”
Christina Applegate and Katey Sagal speak onstage during the Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony honoring Christina Applegate. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images)
Set in Chicago, the series revolved around the Bundy family. Sagal and Applegate starred alongside Ed O’Neill, David Faustino and more.
Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson contributed to this report.
