{"id":2736,"date":"2026-11-04T16:43:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T16:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2026-11-04T16:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T16:43:50","slug":"threes-company-star-joyce-dewitt-recalls-extraordinarily-special-final-night-with-john-ritter-before-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/?p=2736","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Three\u2019s Company\u2019 star Joyce DeWitt recalls \u2018extraordinarily special\u2019 final night with John Ritter before his death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce DeWitt clearly remembers a \u201cstupendous\u201d evening she spent with John Ritter weeks before <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/06\/entertainment\/john-ritter-wife-opens-up-about-death-20-years-later-kaley-cuoco-chair-for-foundation\/\">his untimely death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot knowing that it would be the last time we would hang out together, it was extraordinarily special,\u201d she told Page Six in a recent exclusive interview.<\/p>\n<p>DeWitt, 77, explained that in August 2003, she happened to be in New York at the same time as Ritter, without knowing it. Paparazzi alerted her that Ritter was in town, so she called to see if he wanted to hang out.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, as she was seconds away from leaving her hotel room, the late actor called her back and they made plans for that evening.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\">\n<div class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper\"><a title=\"Open a slideshow of all 9 article images.\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/11\/01\/entertainment\/threes-company-star-joyce-dewitt-recalls-final-night-with-late-john-ritter\/?sr_share=facebook&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawVYP9JleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMWNaNkV0MG43RUVMQnpWWkxzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEfQxXGq54MGJ7ZmXkVNpPAHnZp6cSQBFldY1bF0a_lBkc1ZbdzRrh4nvESOdU_aem_fI2YKtToIb9beYBYyJEaPQ#\" aria-controls=\"nyp-slideshow-modal\" data-slideshow-modal=\"trigger\" aria-label=\"Open a slideshow of all 9 article images.\" data-slideshow-slide-number=\"1\" data-slideshow-slides-total=\"9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9279146\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/joyce-dewitt-147000732.jpg?w=1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 734px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/joyce-dewitt-147000732.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=320 320w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/joyce-dewitt-147000732.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=480 480w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/joyce-dewitt-147000732.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/joyce-dewitt-147000732.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=800 800w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/joyce-dewitt-147000732.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/joyce-dewitt-147000732.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/joyce-dewitt-147000732.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" alt=\"Joyce DeWitt with short white hair and a black top.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"556\" \/><span class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon-text\"><span data-slideshow-modal=\"count\">9<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div><figcaption>Joyce DeWitt recalled during an exclusive chat with Page Six (as seen above) how she spent a \u201cstupendous\u201d evening with her \u201cThree\u2019s Company\u201d co-star John Ritter prior to his 2003 death.<span class=\"credit\">Page Six<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"connatix-outstream-video\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce DeWitt clearly remembers a \u201cstupendous\u201d evening she spent with John Ritter weeks before his untimely death. \u201cNot knowing that it would be the last time we would hang out together, it was extraordinarily special,\u201d she told Page Six in a recent exclusive interview. DeWitt, 77, explained that in August 2003, she happened to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2738,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions\/2738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}