Actress
Meredith Baxter reveals she is a lesbian
12.02.2009
9:08am EST
(New York) Meredith Baxter, the actress
who played Elyse Keaton on the ’80s TV series “Family Ties,” has revealed that
she is a lesbian.
Baxter has been married three times and
is the mother of five children. She said in an interview on NBC’s
“Today” show Wednesday that she is “extraordinarily happy” and that the support
from her family and friends was immediate and unqualified. The 62-year-old actress says that she had a “later-in-life
recognition” and has been in a relationship with her girlfriend, a general
contractor, for four years.
