Geri Jewell is a well known actress for her role played in The Facts Of Life.Now she shocked everyone by revealing that she is lesbian.Geri Jewell has come out as gay in her new memoir where she talks about her struggle coming to terms with her sexuality.
The Facts of Life star, who was born with cerebral palsy, was the first star with a disability to a have a regular role on a primetime series when the programme aired in the Eighties.
In her autobiography, In I'm Walking As Straight As I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond, she also writes about how she overcame growing up with cerebral palsy
She also discusses tax problems, drug addiction and an accident that nearly claimed her life.
The empowering memoir hits shelves on April 1.
Jewell, who starred as Blair’s cousin Geri on The Facts of Life, more recently appeared in the HBO show Deadwood.
She was given the role when the show’s creator, David Milch, spotted her at a Santa Monica pharmacy in 2002 where she was buying medication for chronic neck pain.
Jewell told EW.com back in 2004: 'I looked at the ceiling and said, "God, you have a really quirky sense of humour.
'"I’m standing here with CP and a broken neck, and David Milch wants me to ride a horse.”’
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