British actress Judy Carne has died at 76-years-old, the Telegraph reported. Carne was known as the "Sock it to me!" girl on the hit comedy sketch series "Laugh-In."
Carne passed away on Sept. 3 at Northampton General Hospital, according to local paper Northampton News. Carne was a resident in Pitsford, a village outside of Northampton in England. Her family and neighbors paid tribute to Carne on Facebook.
"RIP Judy Carne, you're not suffering anymore," Marnie Butcher, Carne's niece wrote on Facebook, according to the Northampton News.
Carne, born Joyce Audrey Botterill in 1939, got her first television role on "The First Day of Spring" in 1956, Variety reported, but she rose to fame between 1968-70 as the "Sock it to me!" girl in Rowan and Martin's "Laugh-In." On the show, Carne would say her line "Sock it to me!" and get doused with water.
Carne was married to fellow actor Burt Reynolds between 1963-66 but the couple divorced after Carne alleged that Reynolds was abusive towards her. She remarried - to movie producer Robert Bergmann - in 1970, but the couple divorced one year later.
After her two failed marriages, Carne developed a drug addiction and hit rock bottom between 1978-79, according to the Telegraph. In 1978, Carne faced three drug-related charges and was hospitalized for a drug overdose in March of that year.
She chronicled her life, including the short-lived marriage with Reynolds and her struggle with drug addiction, in her 1985 biography titled "Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside: The Bittersweet Saga of the Sock-It-To-Me Girl."
