Bette Midler On How She Got The Name Bathhouse Betty: “I was in my house down in Orange County. I was all by myself, and I was nervouse because I don’t like to be alone. It’s kind of scary. Somebody knocked on the door and it was a fan. He started shrieking ”˜Bathhouse Betty, Bathhouse Betty!’ And I thought ”˜Oh God, how mortifying’ It was pretty scary and I said ”˜I’m going to call the cops, I’m going to call the cops’ and he ran away. But he left me with ”˜Bathhouse Betty’ and how could I forget that? He was giving me homage to my days playing the bathhouses” (The Hour ”“ Sep 4, 1998)
