Kathy Bates has announced her retirement, two weeks before her new show, Matlock, is to be released.
Bates described her career as: “Pain, pain, pain, pain, pain,” but added, “Do I have the right to feel this pain?
Bates, 76, stars as “brilliant septuagenarian” lawyer Madeline “Matty” Matlock, in the reboot of the Eighties and Nineties original, which starred Andy Griffiths.
“I never really thought about being a movie star,” she said as she revealed she felt unwanted growing up.