Posted on 12/29/2013 11:49:48 PM PST by Pinkbell
Good Morning America host Robin Roberts publicly acknowledged that she is gay on Sunday for the first time.
The 53-year-old cancer survivor thanked her girlfriend of ten years as part of a heartfelt end-of-year thank you addressed to fans and loved ones posted to her Facebook.
'I am grateful for my entire family, my long time girlfriend, Amber, and friends as we prepare to celebrate a glorious new year together,' Roberts wrote.
Amber, reports Media Bistro, is Amber Laign, a message therapists who helps patients recuperate from injuries.
Roberts' sexuality has been known to her family, friends and co-workers for some time but this is the first time the television personality has spoken of that aspect of her personal life publicly.
In 2012 Roberts was diagnosed with the blood disorder myelodysplastic syndrome and took a medical leave of absence from Good Morning America.
She returned to the show in February 2013 and won a Peabody Award the same year for Robin's Journey, a series of TV reports that chronicled her battle against MDS.
Five years earlier she had been treated for breast cancer.
In the mean time, her letter of gratitude appears at a time when Roberts has quite a bit to be thankful for.
According to the New York Post, the Good Morning America darling inked a new long-term deal with ABC for a reported $10 million and $14 million.
ABC News released this statement shortly after Roberts' post appeared on Facebook:
'We love Robin and Amber, who we have all known for a long time. We were so touched by her Facebook message today and so thankful for all the loving support she has in her life.'
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I accidentally put ABC News instead of Daily Mail. I guess I was thinking ABC because that’s where Robin Roberts works. Can you change it? Thanks.
I e-mailed a message therapists once, but she never got back to me.
As has been well noted on FR for over a decade, the Mainstream Media is almost COMPLETELY Gay-Controlled now, from Hollywood, to your local TV News. The gays in charge, like at NBC, will ONLY hire fellow gays, or those compliant to the Gay “Lifestyle.
Gay propaganda is even force-fed to the kiddies via cartoons now, the takeover of Prime-Time TV just wasn’t enough.
Next up for these people will be legalizing pedophile gay sex, (while straights will still be considered a violent crime.) Hell of a world we are leaving for our kids, isn’t it?
As a news director once said to me "what other guys are you going to find that are that concerned with their appearance?"
? Really?
Her choice of behaving in a homosexual way has been a pretty open secret.
I guess the powers that be thought, since the homosexuals lost big time in the Duck Dynasty hoopla, NOW would be a good time for “good publicity” for their community.
So was she a soccer player, basketball player or a women’s golfer?
So was she a soccer player, basketball player or a women’s golfer?
There, I said it. Hope that pisses off the lefties.
“... Amber Laign, a message therapists ...”
So her girlfriend helps people with their prose?
I don’t get it.
Did her girlfriend know?
She is a repulsive freak who is held up as normal. I never watch these morning shows anyhow. Years ago she worked local TV and had the most outlandish mullet hairdo like a super mullet. She was a former athe_uh_lete...... She was probably gay as s*** back then.
She was in women’s basketball in college and is gay??? What a shock!
Is there a heterosexual left on broadcast TV? Keith Olberman?
Message therapy is very helpful in relieving stress caused by being unclear about what you’re saying. It has changed my life.
This has just confirmed the beliefs of earlier Americans that one bad apple can indeed spoil the barrel. There can be no real peaceful co-existence between right and wrong, between natural and unnatural and between good and evil.
O to the important things... How about those CAROLINA PANTHERS?
(Some day the straights may be able to come out of the closet, not yet, though - second-class citizens and all that - got to make up for genrations of oppression, etc.).
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