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Thirty years after endearing herself to '80s sitcom viewers, Facts of Life star Geri Jewell, who played Blair's cousin Geri, has come out as a lesbian.
On The Facts of Life, Jewell played a young woman with cerebral palsy who often said, "I'm not drunk ... I've got cerebral palsy." Jewell comes out in a new memoir, I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond, in which she details tax problems, addiction, disease, and her life as a gay woman.
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