A bizarre video of Kirstie Alley revealing the wild outfits her parents wore during a fatal car crash has gone viral.
The late star’s clip resurfaced this week on X, formerly Twitter, as she discussed the tragic incident in which a drunk driver killed her mother and seriously injured her father in a 1981 collision.
The couple were heading to a Halloween party at the time and viewers were stunned when Kirstie revealed their favorite outfits.
The clip was uploaded with a caption that read: “I could give you a thousand tries to guess, but you wouldn’t get it right.”
A bizarre video of Kirstie Alley revealing the wild outfits her parents wore during a fatal car crash has gone viral
Lillian Maxine Alley, nicknamed ‘Mickie’, was thrown from her car while Robert Alley suffered serious chest injuries after the October 1981 crash, but fortunately survived
In the clip, which resurfaced earlier this week, Kirstie is seen in the middle of an interview with Barbara Walters as she discusses how she arrived at hospital after the tragic crash.
“We were all sitting in this waiting room and we were crying and as I was crying, my sister was there and I didn’t look at her, but I said, ‘Where did they go?’
“And she said, ‘To a Halloween party.’ And I said, “What were they dressed like?” Why would you ask this?’ Kirstie thought in an annoyed tone.
Kirstie’s sister told her that their parents were dressed up as ‘an odd couple’, but after struggling to piece it together, she probed further for more precise details.
‘I asked, “What exactly were their costumes?” And she said, ‘My mother was a black girl and my father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.’
The famous actress chuckled and put her hands on her head as she continued, “We started laughing and the whole family heard this conversation, I think, and we all started laughing.
“And it was the greatest tribute you could give my mother.”
The clip was flooded with comments as viewers rushed to share their thoughts.
The late star’s clip resurfaced on X this week as she discussed the tragic incident in which a drunk driver killed her mother and seriously injured her father during a 1981 collision.
The clip was flooded with comments as viewers rushed to share their thoughts on the confession
One wrote: ‘WHY WOULD YOU EVER ADMIT THIS?’
Another added, “My mom died in blackface is a great thing to say on network TV.”
And a third joked: ‘We went to a Halloween party’ is a great way to get out of trouble if someone sees you dressed like that.’
Kirstie, who succumbed to bowel cancer in 2022 aged 71, had refused to meet the drunk driver in the years that followed.
Cherrie White, now living in Arlington, Texas, had tried to contact the Cheers star in 2019 to beg for forgiveness, but Kirstie refused to meet with her. RadarOnline previously revealed.
Kirstie had just moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and was preparing for her final audition for the role of Lt. Saavik in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan when she received a call from sister Colette that their parents had been in a fatal accident.
That’s how she learned that her mother, Lillian Maxine Alley, nicknamed “Mickie,” was thrown from their car and that her father, Robert Alley, was in critical condition with chest injuries after White — then known as Cherie Glymph — crashed into their car.
Colette told her, “Mommy’s dead and Dad’s dying. You need to come home,” Kirstie wrote in her 2005 memoir How to Lose Your A** and Regain Your Life: Reluctant Confessions of a Big-butted Star.
Cherrie was just 27 years old at the time and working at the Boeing aircraft factory in Kirstie’s hometown of Wichita, Kansas, amid a messy divorce.
She said she decided to have a drink on her way home from work the night of Oct. 23, 1981, when she swerved along I-135 in the Alleys’ car.
“Sometimes I wish the woman who killed my mother that night… knew about my mother’s costume, because maybe she would also know that my mother was a pretty funny person,” Kirstie wrote in her memoir.
According to court records, Cherrie pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and was sentenced to a year in jail and rehab – but Kirstie tweeted last year that she spent just three months behind bars before being released.
Cherrie White, now living in Arlington, Texas, had tried to contact the Cheers star in 2019 to beg forgiveness for the fatal crash when she was 27 years old
Kirstie tweeted in 2017 that she has “no sympathy” for people who drive drunk
White pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year in prison plus a period of rehab, but was released from prison after just three months, Kirstie said in 2021.
Cherrie then tried to contact Kirstie in 2019, but the famous actress had declined to meet.
“I can understand why Kirstie doesn’t want to talk to me,” Cherrie, who has since retired, told the newspaper. National researcher at the time.
“But if she changed her mind, I would tell Kirstie and her father how sorry I am for what happened that night and the pain I caused them.”
Cherrie, now a grandmother and mother of three, had previously spoken out about the devastating crash in 2011, admitting she Questioner: ‘I shouldn’t have driven that night. I had a lot of things on my mind and I was drunk.
‘I was going through a divorce. I stopped by a local club to get something to eat and a drink.’
She said both she and Robert Alley were trying to avoid a crash involving other cars when they collided.
“I was later told that the other car spun a few times and overturned, throwing the female passenger,” she said, noting that she “blacked out.”
“When I came to, I saw a woman’s body on the side of the road, covered in a sheet,” Cherrie said. ‘Then I saw that ambulance personnel were working on the man.
“I was later informed that the female passenger had died and the male driver was taken to hospital in critical condition,” she continued. “But I never knew the name of the woman I killed. The authorities never told me the names of the victims because the driver was still in the hospital and they could not release his name.
“For 30 years I carried the burden of not knowing who I had killed,” she said.
She later wrote a letter to anonymous crash survivor Robert as part of her rehabilitation, but never sent it.