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Phyllis Diller -- Susan Lucci's mother? Truth, folklore, or urban legend? Is everything you read on the Internet true? Not! This urban legend about Phyllis Diller being Susan Lucci's mother has reared its ugly head again, but this time with renewed vigor and widely spread. An informative email of various facts has been spreading like wildfire, almost as quickly as a chain letter travels, among those "did you know" facts is one that quotes that Phyllis Diller is Susan Lucci's mother. 

Trust your feelings when you read it, do you really think they are related? Some sources indicate they have never even met each other.  

I have been inundated with emails asking if this is true, bets were made and were lost. Most people just need to be reassured, since this urban legend was mixed among some truths, why not believe all the blurbs in the email message? Perhaps someone planted this erroneous fact among some truths just to deceive the most loyal fans or maybe to see if it will come back to them as truth.