{"id":2411743,"date":"2026-05-11T16:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2411743"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:01:19","slug":"erin-murphy-details-her-normal-childhood-from-making-friends-to-being-homecoming-queen-after-starring-in-bewitched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/erin-murphy-details-her-normal-childhood-from-making-friends-to-being-homecoming-queen-after-starring-in-bewitched\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Murphy Details Her Normal Childhood, from Making Friends to Being Homecoming Queen, After Starring in \u201cBewitched\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erin Murphy played Tabitha Stephens from age 2 to age 8 on <em>Bewitched<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After the show concluded, Murphy went back to a &#8220;normal childhood&#8221; and is able to recall her fond memories of having both experiences<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Murphy, 61, remembered the one time she tried to shake her star status and why it wasn&#8217;t necessary<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/archive\/spellbound-vol-52-no-19\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Erin Murphy;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Erin Murphy&quot;}\">Erin Murphy<\/a> has great childhood memories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The actress, 61, talked about life after <em>Bewitched<\/em> on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m_BZMnP4UGs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:The Magnificent Others;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The Magnificent Others&quot;}\"><em>The Magnificent Others <\/em><\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m_BZMnP4UGs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:podcast;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;podcast&quot;}\">podcast<\/a> with Billy Corgan, explaining that while many child actors had trouble shaking their on-screen persona, it never presented a problem for her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAnywhere I would go as a child, people knew who I was. Everyone knew who I was. And that seemed normal because that&#8217;s all I knew,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The star continued, &#8220;But maybe it was because <em>Bewitched<\/em> was a show people loved so much, I never had bullying. Kids at school were nice to me.And I have always felt almost an obligation to be maybe nicer than others because of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:PEOPLE's free daily newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;PEOPLE'&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><strong>PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Murphy explained that her desire to be liked wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;weird child actor thing,&#8221; but a genuine desire to connect with others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI want people to like me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s not because it&#8217;s a weird child actor thing, like I want them to like me so I get a job. No. I like people. I want them to like me. I don&#8217;t want them to think that, since I was on a TV show, that I should be treated differently. I kind of bend over the other way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Murphy recalled enjoying herself as she moved from junior high to high school and getting to do the things other girls her age did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI wanted to do all the things. I was class president. I was a cheerleader. I was homecoming queen,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She added, \u201cI had a very normal childhood. I feel like even being a kid actor, I had a normal childhood because I was still able to do things like be a Girl Scout and stuff like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Murphy recalled a time when she had an opportunity to \u201cstart over\u201d away from her <em>Bewitched <\/em>past and quickly realized that approach didn&#8217;t suit her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhen the show ended, we were in LA for a few more years, then moved down to Orange County. I thought, \u2018Oh, we&#8217;re moving away. I&#8217;m gonna change my name.&#8217; I was gonna use my middle name, which I hate. My middle name is Margaret, but my dad called me Peggy. So I thought, I&#8217;ll be Peggy Mercy\u2026 But I thought we would move away and I could be a new person and no one would know me,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe first day of school, everyone knew who I was. I wasn&#8217;t Peggy for even an hour. It didn&#8217;t last,&#8221; she remembered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Murphy stated that she still watches <em>Bewitched<\/em> from time to time and is excited to revisit it with her grandkids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;When I watch <em>Bewitched<\/em>, it&#8217;s fun for me, and I really don&#8217;t watch it that often. because I have grandkids now. I need to get them watching it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They think they&#8217;d like it. But, when I watch the episodes like &#8216;Jack and the Beanstalker,&#8217; one of the episodes where I was the focus of the episode, I remember so many things about filming. So it&#8217;s fun remembering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/erin-murphy-details-having-a-normal-childhood-after-starring-in-bewitched-11970063\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:People;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;People&quot;}\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Erin Murphy played Tabitha Stephens from age 2 to age 8 on Bewitched After the show concluded, Murphy went back to a &#8220;normal childhood&#8221; and is able to recall her fond memories of having both experiences Murphy, 61, remembered the one time she tried to shake her star status and why it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2411744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[375516,369619,471795,375514],"class_list":["post-2411743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-bewitched","tag-child-actors","tag-childhood-memories","tag-erin-murphy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Erin-Murphy-Details-Her-Normal-Childhood-from-Making-Friends-to.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411745,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411743\/revisions\/2411745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2411744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}