Raquel Welch owned up to her diva behavior on ‘Mork & Mindy’ set

As Beyoncé said, “I’m a diva.”

Casting director Joel Thurm remembered Raquel Welch being a bit of a handful to work with in the ’70s sitcom “Mork & Mindy.”

In his memoir, “Sex, Drugs & Pilot Season: Confessions of a Casting Director,” Thurm explained that Welch had been cast as a villainess from outer space after Jane Fonda backed out of the role over a scheduling conflict.

“Welch was then on the downslide from movie stardom to TV roles,” Thurm wrote about the “One Million Years B.C.” star, who died Feb. 15 at age 82.

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“This would have been an unsettling time for anyone in her position, and she acted out a bit during shooting, taking up extra time in hair and makeup, staying in her trailer a bit longer than necessary, and one day flat-out refusing to wear a certain costume.”

Despite being difficult to work with, Thurm acknowledged that the legendary sex symbol “look[ed] spectacular” in her main outfit: a “silver skintight cast suit.”

After filming her second and last episode, the team held a small wrap party for Welch.

Thurm claimed that, during the get-together, she slid up to him and the producers to own up to her less-than-stellar behavior.

In a moment that he described as “very funny and very true,” she allegedly told them, “‘Look, I know I was a bit of a pain in the a–, but wasn’t I worth it?”

In 1997, the “Three Musketeers” star spoofed her diva reputation when she played a mercurial version of herself in “Seinfeld.”

In the episode titled “Summer of George,” Welch physically attacks both Kramer (Michael Richards) and Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) because the latter supposedly made fun of the way the iconic sex symbol doesn’t swing her arms when she walks.