The longtime bailiff connected the syndciated tribunal amusement told EW helium wasn't asked to enactment successful Judge Judy Sheindlin's caller bid with IMDB.
"My presumption is if you were going connected to bash thing else, that you were astatine slightest going to inquire maine if I wanted to person the accidental to audition for the role," Byrd told the publication.
"Judge Judy" is 1 of the astir fashionable syndicated shows of each clip and precocious ended aft 25 seasons.
According to Byrd, aft accumulation wrapped successful April connected the last play of "Judge Judy," helium turned his attraction to the encephalon country scheduled for his woman Makita Bond-Byrd, who was a longtime shaper for the show.
He said helium aboriginal asked Sheindlin astir her caller amusement and was told helium would not beryllium a portion of it.
"I didn't inquire arsenic to why, that's her choice. But she did pass maine that fundamentally, I was priced retired arsenic the caller bailiff connected her caller show," Byrd said. "My wage would person been excessively much. I was curious: How would she know? She didn't inquire me. She didn't springiness maine an accidental to person accepted a little salary."
In a connection to EW provided by her spokesperson Sheindlin said "Byrd is terrific and we had a large 25-year run. This is simply a full caller programme with a full caller formed and an breathtaking energy."
Byrd said his speech with Sheindlin "ended pleasantly enough" and helium said helium doesn't "think she understood however confused and dismayed I was aft being determination for 25 years, from the opening of her career, and not being astatine slightest fixed the accidental to accidental whether oregon not I wanted to proceed that relationship."
He said helium is present focused connected his acting and voiceover work.
"That's conscionable the mode it went," Byrd said of parting ways with Sheindlin. "I conscionable cognize that God has thing other for me."
Kevin Rasco volition service arsenic bailiff connected "Judy Justice." Byrd said Rasco provided idiosyncratic information for Sheindlin portion she was connected "Judge Judy."