Meredith baxter is gay
Beloved TV sitcom mom Meredith Baxter revealed today that she is a lesbian who has been been involved in a thoughtful same-sex relationship for four years.
"I'm a lesbian, and it was later-in-life recognition," she told NBC's "Today" Show this morning.
"Some people would utter , well, you're living a lie down and, you know, the fact is, not at all. This has only been for the past seven years."
In a discovering interview with Matt Lauer, the iconic "Family Ties" actress established for playing Michael J. Fox's mother on the s TV series confessed that she's been leading a double-life as a closeted lesbian for seven years.
"I had a great deal of difficulty connecting with men in relationships," Baxter said this morning. "I assumed I was a bad picker It never occurred to me to think, 'Oh, it's me.'"
Baxter, 62, said she came to the realization that she was homosexual late in life when she became involved with a queer partner and had an "awakening." She said she is currently involved in a four-year partnership with a same-sex partner.
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Baxter, the actress best famous for playing hippie mom Elyse Keaton on the s sitcom "Family Ties," announced that she's a lesbian and has been keeping her sexual favor a secret for seven years.
"I am a lesbian and it was a later-in-life recognition," Baxter said on NBC's "Today" show. "Some people would speak, well, you're living a lie and, you know, the truth is -- not at all. This has only been for the past seven years."
Baxter, 62 and thrice divorced, came out following the National Enquirer's November inform that she was spotted "traveling with a female friend" on a Caribbean cruise sponsored by lesbian travel corporation Sweet.
"I've always lived a very intimate life." she said on "Today." "To come out and disclose stuff is very antithetical to who I am. [But] I did not want some tabloid to accept the st
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Baxter, 63, also unified by her former television co-star, Michael Gross, and her children, appeared on "Oprah" to discuss her allegedly abusive marriage and what led her to discover she was gay.
"I was a very conventional girl," she told Winfrey. "I was raised in a household where my mother got married and I thought that was what you did."
When she first learned she was a lesbian in , Baxter said, "It didn't scare me and I don't know why I wasn't confused about it."
"I felt alive in way I had not experienced, and life was rife with possibilities," she said. "OK, I'm ready."
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Meredith Baxter has given an interview to the Advocate coming out as a lesbian, followed by an appearance on Wednesday's "Today" show (scroll down for full video). Baxter has been married three times and has five grown kids, but the sitcom mom says she came out to herself and family about seven years ago. Baxter, 62, has been dating Nancy Locke, a year-old contractor, for four years. She is also an alcoholic, and she's been sober for 19 years.
Recently the National Enquirer reported she was on a lesbian cruise.
A few choice questions from the Advocate, scroll down for "Today" quotes:
When did you realize you were gay?
Thirteen years ago I had a short-term affair with somebody -- a woman -- who I just cared for tremendously as a person, [I] was not really attracted to her, but the best way to explain it, [a romance] seemed like the next organic step in our affair just because I cared about her a lot. Not once -- it's probably hard to visualize -- but not once did it occur to me that I was a lesbian. Not once. I just thought, OK, I don't think so, and went off and g