{"id":325717,"date":"2026-03-13T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/golden-girls-writer-tells-anderson-cooper-how-grief-changed-his-story\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:00:04","slug":"golden-girls-writer-tells-anderson-cooper-how-grief-changed-his-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/golden-girls-writer-tells-anderson-cooper-how-grief-changed-his-story\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Golden Girls\u2019 writer tells Anderson Cooper how grief changed his story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/Cvziphj0Dw0\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Golden Girls\u2019 writer tells Anderson Cooper how grief changed his story\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cvziphj0Dw0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Jamie Wooten was a young sitcom writer on \u201cThe Golden Girls.&quot; Now 64, grieving his husband&#8217;s death, he tells Anderson Cooper he finds himself in the same stage of life as the characters he once wrote about. 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