Meredith Baxter Says She's A Lesbian

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Meredith Baxter said she was a lesbian as media reports and published photos of her and a woman embracing began to surface in public on Wednesday.

Meredith Baxter, 62, told NBC's "The Today Show" that she discovered she was gay seven years ago, several years after her divorce from her third husband. Meredith Baxter said her five children, who range from ages 25 to 42, supported her when she told them.

"I am a lesbian, and it was a later-in-life recognition," Meredith Baxter said. "I got involved with someone I never expected to get involved with, and it was that kind of awakening. I had a great deal of difficulty connecting with men in relationships."

Her comments came amid recent online photographs of her walking with her girlfriend of four years, building contractor Nancy Locke, and reports that she attended a Caribbean cruise with some lesbians 1.200, which Meredith Baxter confirmed.

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Meredith Baxter said she decided to speak to the media to set the facts straight. She also said she was once so paranoid the media would expose her secret that she asked Locke, who was openly gay, to park her truck farther away.

"She said, 'No'. I thought, 'All right." I had to reach a level of comfort. It was not fair to push her back into some kind of secrecy, and the nice thing is that we live very 'out' lives in Los Angeles said, "Baxter.

Baxter played Elyse Keaton, mother of: Michael J. Fox 's conservative-minded teenager Michael P. Keaton, from 1982 to 1989. She has had guest and recurring television roles since then and therefore runs a skincare company.

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