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April 4, 2023 | 3:30 pm
Mayim Bialik revealed more about how she found out about Leslie Jordan’s death.
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Actress Mayim Bialik shares new details about how she found out about Leslie Jordan’s death.
Jordan passed away in October at the age of 67, after crashing his car into the side of a Los Angeles building.
He died of sudden cardiac dysfunction and arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, the Los Angeles coroner confirmed to The Post at the time.
Bialik revealed that the cast and crew of the sitcom, “Call Me Kat,” were waiting for her to appear on the day of her death.
“We were all at work and we were expecting him to show up at work, so it was very, very, very difficult to have the whole crew there and the whole cast,” Bialik, 47, admitted during an appearance Tuesday on “The Jennifer Hudson Show.“
He likened the cast to a “family,” especially since it was one of the first shows to start filming again after the COVID-19 pandemic. The show even stopped production after his death.
“We were all very close, and people knew Leslie Jordan as Leslie Jordan, not necessarily as the character that he played on our show,” he said of the late actor.
“It has been in people’s lives, especially during COVID. It was on people’s Instagram feeds. A lot of people actually formed a real connection with him, and he loved that. He loved being accessible. He loved to be loved”.
The Post has reached out to Bialik’s representatives for comment.
Jordan starred the comedy as Phil, the head baker of Bialik’s character Kat’s bakery.
The show, which premiered in 2021, centers on Kat, who uses the money her parents were saving for her wedding to open a cat-themed cafe.
They said goodbye to Jordan’s character in an emotional episode that aired in January.
They addressed her absence by writing that her character and her fictional boyfriend had made their vacation to Tahiti a permanent move.
The sitcom also marked Jordan’s first on-screen kiss with a man.
Before Jordan’s death, he had become a social media star, amassing millions of followers on both Instagram and TikTok. He often shared funny stories, sometimes about his experience growing up in Tennessee, and took his fair share of stabs at popular TikTok dances.
He starred in 17 episodes of the hit TV show “Will & Grace” as Beverley Leslie and as Mr. Blackly in the 2011 movie “The Help,” among other roles.
However, Jordan was not included in this year’s “In Memoriam” segment at the 95th Academy Awards, upsetting fans.
The moving tribute included Lenny Kravitz’s rendition of his song “Calling All Angels.”
