Meredith Baxter On Coming Out: I Felt Unburdened
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- On Top Magazine Staff
- | November 25, 2014
Actress Meredith Baxter says coming out gay left her feeling unburdened.
Baxter, who is best known for playing Elyse Keaton on the NBC sitcom Family Ties, came out during a 2009 Today Show appearance.
“I am a lesbian and it was a later-in-life recognition,” she told Matt Lauer. “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, 67, came forward after Perez Hilton published photos on his website of Baxter and then-girlfriend Nancy Locke aboard an all-lesbian cruise. The pair married in California last year.
“After coming out on national television I felt unburdened, and that's the way I feel now,” Baxter said in an Oprah: Where Are They Now segment broadcast Sunday. “I'm not worried about someone going, 'Hey we know about this.' I don't have anything I'm trying to hide.”
Baxter wrote about her three failed marriages to men and coming out in her 2011 memoir Untied.