{"id":9162,"date":"2025-03-22T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=9162"},"modified":"2025-03-22T14:32:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:32:31","slug":"lauren-tewes-left-hollywood-and-became-cheese-steward-after-losing-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=9162","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Tewes left Hollywood and became cheese steward after losing baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After seven years of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.newsner.com\/tag\/television\/\">starring<\/a>\u00a0as the cruise director on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.newsner.com\/tag\/the-love-boat\/\">ship<\/a>\u00a0that promised love, this actor was shown a lot of hate when she was tossed overboard for her very public battle with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.newsner.com\/tag\/addiction\/\">cocaine<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"edzru69f59c1405b53\" ><div style=\"width:100%; max-width:1200px; margin:0 auto;\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/bolt-casino.com?r=0BFDBF1283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n    <img \n      src=\"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f8693ebb-2018-480f-a2f7-0096810c07f0.jpg\" \n      alt=\"200% Deposit Bonus + 10% Cashback\" \n      style=\"width:100%; height:auto; display:block; border-radius:8px; cursor:pointer;\"\n    \/>\n  <\/a>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 1201px) {\r\n.edzru69f59c1405b53 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 993px) and (max-width: 1200px) {\r\n.edzru69f59c1405b53 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 992px) {\r\n.edzru69f59c1405b53 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 768px) {\r\n.edzru69f59c1405b53 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {\r\n.edzru69f59c1405b53 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n<\/style>\r\n\n<p><strong>After sinking her career and personal life, the now 70-year-old star went from being TV\u2019s most beloved ship steward to a cheese steward for a Seattle-based catering company.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When\u00a0<em>The Love Boat\u00a0<\/em>first set sail in 1977, the TV series fulfilled its promise of being \u201csomething for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every week, fans tuned in to watch the adventures of their favorite crew on the Pacific Princess, including Captain Stubing and his daughter Vicki (Gavin McLeod and Jill Whelan), Doc (Bernie Kopell), Gopher (Fred Grandy), bartender Isaac (Ted Lange) and the cruise director, Cynthia Lauren Tewes, who was 23 when she started her role as Julie McCoy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F178860688845146%2Fphotos%2Fa.203250369739511%2F203252883072593%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"291\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In season eight of the hit TV series, the Golden Globe nominated Tewes, who won the role over 100 other candidates, was notably absent from the ship. The star was replaced by Patricia Klous, who played her on-screen sister and new cruise director, Judy McCoy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Archives\/1985\/03\/10\/Actress-Lauren-Tewes-who-starred-in-the-series-The\/2359479278800\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0in 1985, executive producer Douglas Cramer explained why Tewes was fired: \u201cThere were severe problems with Lauren. Not just recently, but for all of the seven years she was with\u00a0<em>The Love Boat<\/em>\u2026 It was terribly disrupting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tewes was fired from the show in 1984 for her addiction with cocaine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-451009959\" class=\"newsner-article_inside_content\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"newsner-d7a5aa346d54d9450a0ee5b7e2ed4f17\" class=\"newsner-d7a5aa346d54d9450a0ee5b7e2ed4f17 newsner-amp_article_inside_content\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAll that money didn\u2019t go into a bank. It went into my nose,\u201d Tewes said in the same interview. \u201cI wanted to be one of the gang. I am ashamed to say it, but it\u2019s true. The first time I took cocaine I had just gotten the job on\u00a0<em>The Love Boat<\/em>\u00a0and I was on my way to a party. My date said, \u2018Let\u2019s do drugs.\u2019 And I said, \u2018What the heck?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe feeling it gave me was incredible euphoria. You think you are fine. You think you are stronger, braver. I thought it gave me the courage I missed. It was like going to Oz and asking for courage. But instead, I got cocaine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F178860688845146%2Fphotos%2Fa.203250369739511%2F203253226405892%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Tewes shared with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xvHXRfEsQC4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Oprah Winfrey<\/a>\u00a0her struggles with cocaine addiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI felt guilty, I felt shamed and humiliation and disgusted and disappointment, I knew that I had gotten myself into a situation I couldn\u2019t get out of by myself,\u201d she said. \u201cI secretly begged and begged and begged for someone to help me. For me it was an issue with cocaine in the 1970\u2019s and early 1980\u2019s when it was a popular drug but if you ask anybody, I was the only one doing it in all of\u00a0Hollywood. It was just me and nobody wanted to help me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Working through her addiction alone, the actor of the 1981 film\u00a0<em>Eyes of a Stranger<\/em>\u00a0started withdrawal in 1980, but it took her a few years to become sober.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just sunk in that I was not having a good time, that I was killing myself and that I was spending all my money. So, I stopped completely,\u201d she says in the interview with TV Guide.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-family-tragedy\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Family tragedy<\/h2>\n<p>After she sobered up, Tewes focused her career on theatre, which gave her a new platform to showcase her talents as an actor and director.<\/p>\n<p>In this time, she divorced twice and then met Robert Nadir in 1993 while performing in an Arizona Theater Company play. The two dated long-distance for a year before Tewes joined him in Seattle.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-679164190\" class=\"newsner-article_inside_content\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"newsner-24c3f6b4132c03261ff5b74dbac9309e\" class=\"newsner-24c3f6b4132c03261ff5b74dbac9309e newsner-amp_article_inside_content\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FOfficialJillWhelan%2Fphotos%2Fa.476285359063285%2F4528867717138342%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"629\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI decided to change my whole life, which has been a wonderful thing for me,\u201d she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/1998\/5\/31\/19383232\/tewes-sets-a-new-course\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">said<\/a>\u00a0in 1998. \u201cThe theater community here has been very responsive to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two married in 1996, but in 2002, Robert was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease (ALS). He died the same year at age 46. It wasn\u2019t the first time Lauren had gone through a family tragedy. In 1987, she lost her 1-month-old\u00a0daughter, who passed after being born prematurely.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-victim-of-circumstance\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Victim of circumstance\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Her career never fully recovered, but she did have small appearances on TV shows like\u00a0<em>Who\u2019s the Boss?<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Fugitive<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Twin Peaks<\/em>. Tewes also reunited with the original cast on an episode of\u00a0<em>The Love Boat: The Next Wave<\/em>, which sees her character in a relationship with Doc.<\/p>\n<p>However, she was not aboard the Princess Cruises\u2019 latest\u00a0Love Boat\u00a0at Sea Celebration, a seven-night themed cruise that featured some original cast members from the TV show including Kopell, Lange, Whelan and Grandy, a congressman from 1987 to 1995. McLeod died in 2021 at age 90.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fthefamilychannel%2Fposts%2Fpfbid023dEnJE9bVXJEmPVKXyEHhUjYUyqpijWRp9YvLii7ur2veSFcSGjwRJjYsS4WsKcEl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"587\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though Tewes wasn\u2019t present, she wasn\u2019t forgotten by her former co-workers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/fred-grandy-says-lauren-tewes-was-a-victim-of-circumstance-in-love-boat-firing-8709921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">People<\/a>\u00a0reports that Whelan, now 57, said she frequently sees her old castmate, who will fly out to visit for a weekend, spending time \u201ccooking and just laughing and sharing stories all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should talk about our pal, who is a sister to all of us,\u201d says the former child star. \u201cShe\u2019s just a very genuine, sweet human being, and by the way, a spectacular actress. I mean, I even look back at\u00a0<em>The Love Boat<\/em>\u00a0episodes and I just marvel at her and her ability to move so effortlessly between doing a dramatic scene and comedy. But she is one of our favorite people and we adore her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Grandy touched on her dismissal from the show, saying she \u201chas recovered magnificently\u201d and that the \u201cthe circumstances of her departure were not so lovely.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-402742739\" class=\"newsner-article_inside_content\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"newsner-a79bbd6c26e90d276c800234300fe8d0\" class=\"newsner-a79bbd6c26e90d276c800234300fe8d0 newsner-amp_article_inside_content\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis would\u2019ve been the early \u201980s, substance abuse on a set in those days was a punishable offense,\u201d Grandy, 76, said. \u201cIt was not a healthcare problem, and it was not understood in the way it is understood now. And to some degree, she was a victim of circumstance at the time because the attention and care and therapy she should have gotten was meted out in the form of discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPrincessCruises%2Fphotos%2Fa.168688999059%2F10155367698989060%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"443\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today she can be heard on\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/harrynile.com\/product-tag\/cynthia-lauren-tewes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Murder and the Murdochs<\/a><\/em>, a comedy-mystery radio series that\u2019s hosted by Imagination Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>And, when she\u2019s not busy acting, the now 70-year-old culinary artists spends her time sharpening her skills as a cheese specialist with a Seattle-based catering company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope and pray that that\u2019s all past now,\u201d Tewes tells the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-1990-02-11-ca-814-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>. \u201cI think I made the right choices by trying to stay in the business while it was trying to keep me out, by following my own heart and my own drive, and by making the choice to stick it through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think of Tewes and her dismissal from the iconic TV series? 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