Robin Roberts and her longtime companion Amber Laign are lastly headed down the aisle.
The reporter introduced on Good Morning America on Monday that after 18 years collectively she and her girlfriend have determined that this 12 months they may get married. Roberts advised creator Gabrielle Bernstein on the information present, “I’m saying sure to marriage. We’re getting married this 12 months.” She added that she had been “hesitating” to share the joyful information as a result of she hadn’t “stated it out loud but.” The anchor additionally revealed that she and Laign had “talked about” having a marriage up to now, however in the end determined to “put it off” after her companion was recognized with breast most cancers in late 2021. Laign needed to droop her most cancers remedy attributable to “problems with the chemotherapy,” nonetheless, she was capable of go on and full her radiation remedy in July 2022. Following her nuptial announcement, Bernstein urged Roberts to “create a marriage imaginative and prescient board,” prompting the journalist to start fanning herself together with her word playing cards. Roberts joked, “I can’t consider I stated that.”
The journalist and Laign first started relationship in July 2005, however Roberts didn’t share her sexual orientation till December 2013. She can be a breast most cancers survivor, present process a bone marrow transplant in 2012. In a Fb put up on the time documenting her restoration from most cancers, Roberts wrote, “I’m grateful for my total household, my longtime girlfriend, Amber, and buddies as we put together to rejoice a wonderful new 12 months collectively. I’m grateful for the various prayers and effectively needs for my restoration. I return each certainly one of them to you 100 fold.”
In 2020, the pair celebrated their fifteenth anniversary collectively and Laign reminisced on Instagram concerning the blind date that first introduced them collectively. “15 years in the past I met you for drinks on a blind date that each you and I attempted to cancel…twice,” the previous therapeutic massage therapist started. “Your grace caught my eye immediately and the benefit of the night continued to movement by dinner. We had a second date quickly after and I could not consider how comfortable I used to be with you as we shared one another’s lives sipping lychee and apple martinis. You left for Tahiti the next day and through that point aside I grew this sense within me that also, may be very current at the moment….butterflies. Having you by my aspect is a present as we proceed to navigate this factor referred to as life. I drive you loopy….I do know which is why I like you much more to at the present time. You have got the kindest coronary heart and most stunning soul than anybody I do know. You have got proven me time and time once more to remain humble and to all the time deal with others with the utmost respect as you by no means know what one is perhaps going by ❤ Stunning…..completely stunning. I like you with all my coronary heart.”
