Sha-la-la-la. Family Ties and Lifetime channel star Meredith Baxter is out of the closet. The 62-year-old actress, who once played Elyse Keaton on the ’80s TV series Family Ties, has revealed that she is a lesbian.
“I’m a lesbian mom,” Baxter told People magazine. “I feel like I’m being honest for the first time.” Baxter said she started dating women several years ago, but before that, being gay “had never crossed my mind.”
In an interview on NBC’s Today show, Baxter said “I am a lesbian, and it was a later-in-life recognition of that fact.” Baxter went on to say she has been in a relationship with her girlfriend Nancy Locke, a general contractor, for four years. “Some people are saying, were you living a lie? And, you know, the truth is, not at all. This has only been in the past seven years.” she said.
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