Meredith, you nailed Betty Broderick!! You are awesome!! I wish you all the best!! i am glad you got out of an abusive relationship!! No one deserves that!!
Meredith, congrats on coming out finally. Coming out for someone in the public eye is dreadfully stressful. I thought I was a late bloomer coming out at 25. lol. (back in the 70s). Be happy. I always thought you were adorable.
thats interesting because i thought she was gay as far back as the 70s when i was a teen and she was doing a series called Family...ive always liked her as an actress and thought she was very beautiful
@procommenter quoted by procommenter here but either deleted by vid sharer or deleted by poster, "Don't encourage perversion." There is nothing perverted about following your heart. Meredith Baxter is a grown woman in what appears to be a great relationship. It shouldn't matter that it's w/another woman. She is in love so that's all that counts; the last I read, love is never a perversion. Love is something we seek all our lives; those who find it are truly blessed.
I would never have guessed she was gay. Usually I can tell. I worked for QVC and met many gay people. There actually are dozens of tells. She hid them well.
Sad when after marriages with men and other broken relationships she has decided to take the cowardly route and claim that she is now a lesbian. Further proof that they aren't born that way. 😢
+Wendy Marks-Fiolek What, is it a publicity move to say you're gay? That's a good one. Is she not butch enough? Not submissive enough? Pretty stupid to say you don't believe when someone says they are gay. However there are a few exceptions, but generally not people over 50.
In 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 , God=Lord Jesus Christ warns of sodomite sexual immoral behavior and if those keep doing it and don't stop those won't enter heaven later. Unfortunately there is no rest for the unrepentant and the disbelieving in the lake of fire and brimstone . It is the second death.
Who cares she’s a lesbian, it’s her business, and her family’s business, WHY doesnt she have to tell the world was it for. Money ,smart ‘‘em up keep your mouth shu5 😊
Good for you Meredith. You're still a great woman, an excellent actress, and a great person. Please NEVER EVER feel ashamed or down re coming out. I'm glad you are living YOUR life now. I hope you find every bit of joy and love that I experience as a straight woman in life w/DH. You deserve as much happiness as you can get. Best of wishes & luck with your new love. I wish you many happy years to come & hope they last a lifetime. You're great.
I have always had the utmost admiration for Meredith, what I like more, she came out simply, not in your face with it, like a few who will remain nameless!
Your comment says more about you than it does about anything else. Look around you. Most women of Meredith's age have shorter hair. Google 'Lesbian' and 'images' and see the diversity in hair styles. ignorance is no excuse. Please educate yourself. Your responsibility to yourself and others.
I'm straight but have had many friendships and acquaintances with gay people through out my life but I just can't understand the relevance or importance of announcing to the world your sexual orientation whether it be straight or gay. It didn't seem to be important to any of my gay friends that issue or special significance be made of their sexual orientation so long as they were accepted and treated as friends, equals or ofttimes just passing acquaintances. And this was in the seventies. What truly has changed since then? We played music together, poked fun of one another regardless of our proclivities.
Yes I did. And my question still stands. Being gay is no more significant or relevant now as it was in my day other than the Liberal's, and Leftist's agenda that is using and manipulating the gays, etc for their own device. Again, and for the last time, I will repeat, that the majority of straight people are not really concerned with someone's sexual proclivities so long as these proclivities are not being used as political clout or being pressed upon them.
Uh.... I was actually referring to the part at the beginning of the video where Meredith Baxter explains the "relevance" of her "announcing to the world [her] sexual orientation", since that seemed to be the thing you were taking issue with. The "relevance", of course, was that her "sexual orientation" was about to be "announced to the world" _by the tabloids_ and she wanted to beat them to the punch. I think that's a pretty good reason. But, I'm really happy you were able to use this as an opportunity to present what you clearly believe to be the only valid way for anybody to view this issue - a view I suspect you've generously shared with many of "the gays,etc" you've come into contact with (and, in some cases, even become "friends" with despite their "proclivities" and the fact that they're being "manipulated" by "the Liberals" and "the Leftists"). You also got to use fancy words like "ofttimes", and even managed to turn your comment into a political statement! No, I don't suppose being "gay" is any more "significant" or "relevant" to _you_ now than it was "in your day"; after all...you're not "gay".
Yes, because it's so important to get ahead of what a gossip rag/tabloid, (who's readers are in the double digit IQ's) might print about you. A truly confident person might just ignore such tripe instead of using it as an opportunity at a last ditch attempt at relevance in their declining celebrity. Attention and visibility is everything in Hollywood. Whether that attention is positive or negative is irrelevant as long as your name is spelled correctly.
Dear Meredith, I enjoyed Family Ties when you guided your children to be caring. I want yo to go to Heaven and so I am writing here. Please trust in the Lord and you shall be saved. Best Wishes To You!! • Jesus says, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” I have learned through relationships, that people are designed to give/receive 100% of the great amount of love inside each of God's children, should give that huge amount of love only to God in Heaven. Try for example, during difficult, great or ordinary times of life to be still, open your heart and give your love and thanks to God. Feel how wonderful is that condition. Yes, we are to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. • Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. • It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes/princesses.
This is sad...as so many who have gone through perhaps traumatic divorces this is perhaps their rebound, who knows always loved family ties...really no need to tell the world Meredith...what's the point???
Ridiculous about her being "slow". Remember her age, she was born in 1947, it's a generational issue, she even alludes to that by saying people do what they watched as children. Also, she was abused by Birney which can delay self-examination and worth which she has talked about. I am 25 years younger than her ... and it was still hard to come out in those years. I think she's epic, courageous and has an appealing reserved nature that is very unique. I hope she is brilliantly happy.
@@progressives72 Jr. high philosophy, my dear: Know thyself. Actors strike me as people who delve more deeply into themselves than your average Jo. And plenty of women before her were in tune to their own sexuality (which, I know, is not the same as the freedom to come out). Vita Sackville West was married, but she did little to conceal her orientation. I 've read up on Vita not because of her sexuality, but because she is an extraordinary woman and a master gardener. At some point we need to meld and not be so ..."what are you?" We're all human, remarkable for this, not so great at that, and usually a fallible work in progress .... and p.s. Vita is far more "epic" than Baxter.
@@julieb7785 Your arrogance reveals you. Of course one's "epicness" in the eyes of others is subjective -- for you to suggest a woman you respect is more epic than one I admire is sophomoric, sloppy and relevatory. You clearly could not absorb very simple yet powerful facts about Baxter's life so let me assist you: 1) she was born before 1950 which is impactful in issues like this. You couldn't even comment on the generational difficulty of coming out for a woman like her. I am reminded of a book by Judy Nelson, a woman who looks very much like Baxter, was married to a successful Dallas doctor -- and fell head over heals in love with Martina Navratilova. It surprised her deeply and she too had lived a life like Baxter: beautiful woman who was the playtoy and disrespected by her husband. Despite her love for women which she discovered later in life, she had a hard time coming to terms with revealing it publically. 2) Baxter has talked in depth at how she was neglected as a child. That of course affected her self-esteem. Women with low self-esteem tend to follow societal norms -- like getting married and having children even if said marriages weren't happy and indeed abusive in her case. 3) The has said she developed a drinking habit to cope during her marriage to Birney who was incredibly vicious physically and emotionally. Does that mean she is weak ... or did she do all she could to survive? She is a SURVIVOR. All of these issues are connected. The childhood neglect, the subsequent low self-esteem, being unable to get out of bad relationships and the resulting drinking issue. Your blanket whitewash that "actors delve more deeply into themselves" is so sloppy and irresponsible. Stereotype much? I think Baxter is heroic. She is completely authentic, speaks of her own role in not examining her life more closely before she did when she finally asked Birney for a divorce. She OWNS that. She is also very private and clearly uncomfortable in the spotlight yet felt a duty to take control of her life story rather than let the tabloids do it ... and to help other, younger women if she could. I watched another interview on how she met her current wife. She talked to her on the phone for a year without knowing her but guess why? She sponsored her as her wife tried to stop drinking. They didn't even know each other, she was just helping a stranger ... and for a long time. Eventually they met and fell in love but that speaks volumes to me on who Baxter is. You may prefer the gardner -- I prefer the courageous Ms. Baxter.
@@julieb7785 P.S. RE your asinine comment " At some point we need to meld and not be so ..."what are you?" " You clearly have ZERO knowledge, respect or understanding of what gay women have gone through historically to come out. Ask Ellen who lost her career even in 1997 for coming out. Ask the brilliant, Yale educated actress Jodie Fosters who has a serious intellect ... but not the ovaries to have come out until recently. Ask me who had to watch the woman I loved marry, have three children and go through her own process before she was able to break free of societal pressure to leave him and for us to be together ... and with five children, two of our own. Oh it's just so "easy" according to out of touch people like you. That is why you belong in the past Julie. Unless of course you CHOOSE to update your archaic and simplistic views.
Meredith Baxter has always been 1 of my favorite actresses.
Great actress...The Betty Broderick movie was one of her best
I Agree.
I prefer Kate’s Secret
That is when I first realized she wasn't pretty any more.
@@Theaddora she wasn't trying to be pretty a great actress doesn't care how she looks if the role doesn't require it.
She seems very happy! I’m glad she feels content and at peace.
I don't care for Joy because she's so abrasive, but Meredith is a class lady.
You are the best, part of the family, and so pretty, thanks for all the years of making me smile.
WOW... she still looks fantastic! what a sweetheart!
It doesnt matter, you are who you are. Its the small minds and bullys who try to intimidate and belittle..
Small minds yes. The ignorant who live in their own little box and never dare venture out lol sad
Awesome of you to do Meredith! You, Joanna Kerns and Judith Light were my favorite TV moms in the '80s.
She’s a treasure. Loved all her movies….where is she now
Meredith, you nailed Betty Broderick!! You are awesome!! I wish you all the best!! i am glad you got out of an abusive relationship!! No one deserves that!!
She's awesome--I just want her happy! Proud of her courage to share her journey.
Great actress. nice person and looks fabulous. Don't really care if she's a lesbian.
You're sooo tolerant. Were yo looking for a pc pat on the back?
Meredith, congrats on coming out finally. Coming out for someone in the public eye is dreadfully stressful. I thought I was a late bloomer coming out at 25. lol. (back in the 70s). Be happy. I always thought you were adorable.
@reme001 i was 32 when i came out as gay
Meredith is a jewel. So glad she can be "out" now. Her talent and inspiration transcends all definitions.
I never knew Meredith had been beaten. That's terrible.
"Men do it all the time, big deal." Aye, shes got a point.😂
she still looks great!
She doesn't look like she's aged a bit. o.o
I alllways thought she was GAY back n the 80s
thats interesting because i thought she was gay as far back as the 70s when i was a teen and she was doing a series called Family...ive always liked her as an actress and thought she was very beautiful
Personally, I was not blown away by her coming out to say the least. She always had an awkward sexual energy to me.
@procommenter quoted by procommenter here but either deleted by vid sharer or deleted by poster, "Don't encourage perversion."
There is nothing perverted about following your heart. Meredith Baxter is a grown woman in what appears to be a great relationship. It shouldn't matter that it's w/another woman. She is in love so that's all that counts; the last I read, love is never a perversion. Love is something we seek all our lives; those who find it are truly blessed.
LOVE MEREDITH !!!!!!!!
michael gross and meredith baxter share the same birthdate
I would never have guessed she was gay. Usually I can tell. I worked for QVC and met many gay people. There actually are dozens of tells. She hid them well.
I wasn't surprised in the least with Meredith coming out.
I Love Meredith. She is a Doll.
Sad when after marriages with men and other broken relationships she has decided to take the cowardly route and claim that she is now a lesbian. Further proof that they aren't born that way. 😢
+Wendy Marks-Fiolek What, is it a publicity move to say you're gay? That's a good one. Is she not butch enough? Not submissive enough? Pretty stupid to say you don't believe when someone says they are gay. However there are a few exceptions, but generally not people over 50.
She's awesome. The truth will set you free.
In 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 , God=Lord Jesus Christ warns of sodomite sexual immoral behavior and if those keep doing it and don't stop those won't enter heaven later. Unfortunately there is no rest for the unrepentant and the disbelieving in the lake of fire and brimstone . It is the second death.
Who cares as long as she is happy!!!!
Lesbians cared. There’s a reason a lot of women don’t figure it out until midlife…
And that reason is . . . . ?
Who cares she’s a lesbian, it’s her business, and her family’s business, WHY doesnt she have to tell the world was it for. Money ,smart ‘‘em up keep your mouth shu5 😊
I would become a lesbian to be with Meredith !
Good for you Meredith. You're still a great woman, an excellent actress, and a great person. Please NEVER EVER feel ashamed or down re coming out. I'm glad you are living YOUR life now. I hope you find every bit of joy and love that I experience as a straight woman in life w/DH. You deserve as much happiness as you can get. Best of wishes & luck with your new love. I wish you many happy years to come & hope they last a lifetime. You're great.
Nice Lady Great Actress .............
I have always had the utmost admiration for Meredith, what I like more, she came out simply, not in your face with it, like a few who will remain nameless!
Awe how sweet Michael is.
This interview already seems a bit dated. You couldn’t detect she was a lesbian??? Omg she’s just a person who loves someone else.
This is a theory that was proposed to me by a specialist in NPD, not my thought or theory. however it is food for consideration..
DAAAAAAAAMN...basically she was saying David Birney wasn't all that in bed. LOLOLOL!
She was married to Britney for 15 years and had two kids so if he was bad in bed it don't matter.
I was so in love with Michael Gross
One of my first crushes.
I'm sure that line would have swept her off her feet....geez...
Your comment says more about you than it does about anything else. Look around you. Most women of Meredith's age have shorter hair. Google 'Lesbian' and 'images' and see the diversity in hair styles. ignorance is no excuse. Please educate yourself. Your responsibility to yourself and others.
she's the best lesbian....come on down....
Sure, get Gross on the phone to talk about Meredith's sexuality.
These people will do anything for attention.
And Joy is the biggest pain in the butt.
coming out, is that a thing? If someone said to me that he or she is gay, i would say...take a number.
A GREAT ACTRESS...LOVELY LADY.
😘
❤😊
I'm straight but have had many friendships and acquaintances with gay people through out my life but I just can't understand the relevance or importance of announcing to the world your sexual orientation whether it be straight or gay. It didn't seem to be important to any of my gay friends that issue or special significance be made of their sexual orientation so long as they were accepted and treated as friends, equals or ofttimes just passing acquaintances. And this was in the seventies. What truly has changed since then? We played music together, poked fun of one another regardless of our proclivities.
+George Penwell Did you bother to watch this video? If you had, you might understand.
Yes I did. And my question still stands. Being gay is no more significant or relevant now as it was in my day other than the Liberal's, and Leftist's agenda that is using and manipulating the gays, etc for their own device. Again, and for the last time, I will repeat, that the majority of straight people are not really concerned with someone's sexual proclivities so long as these proclivities are not being used as political clout or being pressed upon them.
Uh.... I was actually referring to the part at the beginning of the video where Meredith Baxter explains the "relevance" of her "announcing to the world [her] sexual orientation", since that seemed to be the thing you were taking issue with. The "relevance", of course, was that her "sexual orientation" was about to be "announced to the world" _by the tabloids_ and she wanted to beat them to the punch. I think that's a pretty good reason.
But, I'm really happy you were able to use this as an opportunity to present what you clearly believe to be the only valid way for anybody to view this issue - a view I suspect you've generously shared with many of "the gays,etc" you've come into contact with (and, in some cases, even become "friends" with despite their "proclivities" and the fact that they're being "manipulated" by "the Liberals" and "the Leftists"). You also got to use fancy words like "ofttimes", and even managed to turn your comment into a political statement! No, I don't suppose being "gay" is any more "significant" or "relevant" to _you_ now than it was "in your day"; after all...you're not "gay".
Yes, because it's so important to get ahead of what a gossip rag/tabloid, (who's readers are in the double digit IQ's) might print about you. A truly confident person might just ignore such tripe instead of using it as an opportunity at a last ditch attempt at relevance in their declining celebrity. Attention and visibility is everything in Hollywood. Whether that attention is positive or negative is irrelevant as long as your name is spelled correctly.
Dear Meredith, I enjoyed Family Ties when you guided your children to be caring. I want yo to go to Heaven and so I am writing here. Please trust in the Lord and you shall be saved. Best Wishes To You!!
• Jesus says, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
I have learned through relationships, that people are designed to give/receive 100% of the great amount of love inside each of God's children, should give that huge amount of love only to God in Heaven. Try for example, during difficult, great or ordinary times of life to be still, open your heart and give your love and thanks to God. Feel how wonderful is that condition. Yes, we are to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.
• Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
• It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes/princesses.
She plays Greta van sustren
Other Mothers.
I really don't think Meredith wants to be a lesbian, I think she wants love and in all the wrong places.
+Leeanna Treadwell she wants it in the right places Hunty!
+Twaddles McGee your entitled to that
I don't think you really want to be an idiot.
Love her!!! So brave to tell the world she's gay! xoxo
i think Joy mostly means well but just doesnt know any better
She had plastic surgery because I remember her skin being all wrinkled and now she looks great. I don't know if I believe that she's a lesbian.
Not interested, but why be proud of it?
Oh look, a dinosaur. Anything else about modern society we can help you with, fire away
To help younger gay women NOT to be ashamed but yes PROUD. And protected from clueless people like you.
I would love to be lesbian im coming out right this second.
Thanks for the upload..xd
Hell will be packed
Bob York true that only 144.000 allowed in heaven you'll have to kill someone for their seat...lol
Why all the drama, it happens get over it who cares.
Yuck!!
She needs work in Hollywood
I have my doubts, too.
she needs attention
O.D. D'Gracia everyone on here does, it's a freaking epidemic...lol
This is sad...as so many who have gone through perhaps traumatic divorces this is perhaps their rebound, who knows always loved family ties...really no need to tell the world Meredith...what's the point???
Can we change the subject please! There are more things more important than inquire in people's sexual preferences.
Good for her. I just find it weird that you can be that slow on the uptake about your own sexual preference....3 husbands, et c.
Yeah I find that hard to fathom, although she must have been so busy she had no time to even think
Ridiculous about her being "slow". Remember her age, she was born in 1947, it's a generational issue, she even alludes to that by saying people do what they watched as children. Also, she was abused by Birney which can delay self-examination and worth which she has talked about. I am 25 years younger than her ... and it was still hard to come out in those years.
I think she's epic, courageous and has an appealing reserved nature that is very unique. I hope she is brilliantly happy.
@@progressives72 Jr. high philosophy, my dear: Know thyself. Actors strike me as people who delve more deeply into themselves than your average Jo. And plenty of women before her were in tune to their own sexuality (which, I know, is not the same as the freedom to come out). Vita Sackville West was married, but she did little to conceal her orientation. I 've read up on Vita not because of her sexuality, but because she is an extraordinary woman and a master gardener. At some point we need to meld and not be so ..."what are you?" We're all human, remarkable for this, not so great at that, and usually a fallible work in progress .... and p.s. Vita is far more "epic" than Baxter.
@@julieb7785 Your arrogance reveals you. Of course one's "epicness" in the eyes of others is subjective -- for you to suggest a woman you respect is more epic than one I admire is sophomoric, sloppy and relevatory.
You clearly could not absorb very simple yet powerful facts about Baxter's life so let me assist you:
1) she was born before 1950 which is impactful in issues like this. You couldn't even comment on the generational difficulty of coming out for a woman like her. I am reminded of a book by Judy Nelson, a woman who looks very much like Baxter, was married to a successful Dallas doctor -- and fell head over heals in love with Martina Navratilova. It surprised her deeply and she too had lived a life like Baxter: beautiful woman who was the playtoy and disrespected by her husband. Despite her love for women which she discovered later in life, she had a hard time coming to terms with revealing it publically.
2) Baxter has talked in depth at how she was neglected as a child. That of course affected her self-esteem. Women with low self-esteem tend to follow societal norms -- like getting married and having children even if said marriages weren't happy and indeed abusive in her case.
3) The has said she developed a drinking habit to cope during her marriage to Birney who was incredibly vicious physically and emotionally. Does that mean she is weak ... or did she do all she could to survive? She is a SURVIVOR.
All of these issues are connected. The childhood neglect, the subsequent low self-esteem, being unable to get out of bad relationships and the resulting drinking issue.
Your blanket whitewash that "actors delve more deeply into themselves" is so sloppy and irresponsible. Stereotype much?
I think Baxter is heroic. She is completely authentic, speaks of her own role in not examining her life more closely before she did when she finally asked Birney for a divorce. She OWNS that. She is also very private and clearly uncomfortable in the spotlight yet felt a duty to take control of her life story rather than let the tabloids do it ... and to help other, younger women if she could.
I watched another interview on how she met her current wife. She talked to her on the phone for a year without knowing her but guess why? She sponsored her as her wife tried to stop drinking. They didn't even know each other, she was just helping a stranger ... and for a long time. Eventually they met and fell in love but that speaks volumes to me on who Baxter is.
You may prefer the gardner -- I prefer the courageous Ms. Baxter.
@@julieb7785 P.S. RE your asinine comment " At some point we need to meld and not be so ..."what are you?" "
You clearly have ZERO knowledge, respect or understanding of what gay women have gone through historically to come out. Ask Ellen who lost her career even in 1997 for coming out. Ask the brilliant, Yale educated actress Jodie Fosters who has a serious intellect ... but not the ovaries to have come out until recently.
Ask me who had to watch the woman I loved marry, have three children and go through her own process before she was able to break free of societal pressure to leave him and for us to be together ... and with five children, two of our own.
Oh it's just so "easy" according to out of touch people like you. That is why you belong in the past Julie. Unless of course you CHOOSE to update your archaic and simplistic views.
I need to throw up!
I agree with you Lightin ONLY when I think of heterosexuality!🤣
What the Fuck? Alex's mom was a lesbian?????
Michael J. Fox emerging as the star of her vehicle, Family Ties, drove her to women.
I have no problem with her being gay...but why not remain feminine?
It's called LIVING A LIE.
So she wasn't a lesbian when was married to that Birney guy?
Jose Javier Aponte-Parsi bisexual
I think Michael J Fox turned her gay.
She is brave to own who she is no one turned her gay
@@sherryaltman1021 I dont remember saying that comment it was 4 years ago. I was probably drunk
It was actually 5 years ago. You're still drunk.
@@Theaddora Its says it was 8 years ago for me right now. but whoever runs CZcams is probably drunk too.
@@tubester4567 it was 5 years ago when you made the comment three years ago.
I have no problem with her being gay...but why not remain feminine?