Good Morning America co-anchor
Robin Roberts said Sunday that she's thankful for the indifference
her coming out gay received.
The 53-year-old Roberts quietly came
out in December when she thanked her girlfriend Amber Laign in a
Facebook post for standing by her side during a tumultuous year.
Roberts, who is pitching her latest
book Everybody's Got Something, told This Week's George
Stephanopoulos that she acted because she wanted to publicly thank
her partner.
“I was always thanking my doctors and
my sister. And this wonderful person had been right there by my side
through it all, and I had never said to the public, 'Thank you
Amber,” Roberts said. “I just wanted to do that.”
“And I think because in part from
that interview and everything that's happened in this country since,”
said Roberts, referring to a 2012 interview she conducted with
President Barack Obama, in which he endorsed marriage equality. “And
I have been, and so has Amber – We've been overwhelmed with the
support, but also grateful for the 'meh.'” (The video is embedded
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