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Three years before her tragic death, Elizabeth Montgomery dropped a bombshell about Bewitched that changed the way audiences saw the show forever.

Montgomery revealed that Bewitched was really about “repression in general.” Let’s break that down. The show followed a woman forced to hide who she truly was. Back then, being gay was literally illegal. You could be fired, arrested, or worse. So what if being a witch wasn’t just a fantasy, but a metaphor for being gay?

It makes sense. And the subtext didn’t end there. The cast itself was famously q***r. Dick Sargent, who played Darrin, came out later in life. Paul Lynde, who appeared as Uncle Arthur, was openly gay by the 1970s. Maurice Evans, who played Samantha’s father, was reportedly gay. Even Agnes Moorehead, who played Endora, was rumored to be a le***an.

Some called Bewitched the gayest cast in TV history. Montgomery, surrounded by her q***r friends, found herself in the middle of a community before most Americans even had the language for it. When the AIDS crisis struck in the 1980s, she refused to stay silent. She donated, marched, and spoke out while others stayed quiet. Long before “ally” became a buzzword, she was living it.

That same courage would soon be tested.

In 1995, Montgomery was at the top of her game. Her new TV movie, Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan, was everything she wanted. It was smart, political, and real. But during filming, she started feeling fluish and brushed it off. She kept working, not realizing how serious it was.

It wasn’t the flu. It was cancer. By the time doctors discovered it, the disease had already spread too far. Only eight weeks after her diagnosis, Elizabeth Montgomery passed away at 62, surrounded by the people she loved.

Her final revelation about Bewitched still lingers. The show was about magic, repression, and the courage to live openly. In the end, Montgomery spent her life fighting for that freedom on-screen and off.

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