HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Best known as the beloved mom Elyse Keaton on the hit ’80s sitcom Family Ties, Meredith Baxter is opening up about her new life as a lesbian.
“I am a lesbian and it was a later-in-life recognition,” the 62-year-old actress revealed on Wednesday’s Today Show. “Some people would say, 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 said it was never her intention to open up about her private life. However, a recent trip with her girlfriend on a Caribbean cruise sponsored by a lesbian travel company opened up the floodgates in the tabloids.
“I don’t want to be worried all the time,” Baxter told Matt Lauer. “I knew I was pushing it.”
“I did not want some tabloid to take the story and make it up — I wanted it to be in my own words,” she added.
