The Truth About Robin Roberts' Partner Amber Laign

Publish date: 2024-04-01

Robin Roberts may have made her relationship with Amber Laign public in 2013, but the news anchor appeared in People's 2022 Pride issue to clarify that everyone close to her already knew. "Well, everybody knows I am gay. My family knows I am gay. My colleagues, bosses," she told the magazine.

After Roberts came out publicly, she spoke candidly during a 2014 appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" about her partner's reluctance to be in the public eye. "You talk about her a lot in the book, and yet she was living like a quiet kind of closed life," Ellen Degeneres said (via E! News). "Well because she doesn't really like the spotlight. She's here right now, I can't even get her to come out," Roberts explained. The host said she publicly included her longtime girlfriend, who's a licensed massage therapist, in a Facebook post thanking her friends and family for their support while she recovered from myelodysplastic syndrome because "she's been right there beside me every step of the way."

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