When did she ever admit that? She's always said it was the best thing for the show.
Also, to the OP, while her body of work might not be Oscar-worthy movies, I enjoy a lot of them. Particularly Irreconcilable Differences (a great, underrated movie), The Money Pit, Troop Beverly Hills (an '80s classic now), and The Brady Bunch Movies.
She also had some hits with Night Shift and Outrageous Fortune, but I don't particularly like those ones. I can see why Outrageous Fortune was a big hit, though. I just found Better Middler irritating as hell.
But if you read Ken Levine's blog (he was a writer on Cheers and Frasier) she was ASKED to make that three-second appearance on Frasier, and she did it knowing there would be absolutely no publicity around it. It was kept a secret even from the TV producers because they didn't want any advertisement about it. Levine notes how she had a full shooting schedule, but was still happy to do it.
I agree, though. She had more potential than her post-Cheers career gave us. Hated Hello Again and that Boyfriend School piece of crap. She turned down a few roles that probably would have catapulted her to a lasting movie career. She was offered the role of the boss in Working Girl and the mom in E.T.
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