Summary
Facts of Life’s Mindy Cohn reveals that a revival of the Emmy-nominated sitcom was sabotaged by one of its stars, calling her a “greedy b—h.” A spin-off ofDiff’rent Strokes, the NBC sitcom aired from 1979 to 1998 following the Drummond family’s former housekeeper, Edna Garrett, who becomes a housemother of a dormitory at the private all-girlsEastland High School. The cast included Charlotte Rae as Mrs. Garrett alongside Lisa Whelchel, Kim Fields, Nancy McKeon, and Cohn playing the girls in her care.
During a recent appearance onSiriusXM’sJeff Lewis Live,Cohn revealed that aFacts of Liferevival was sabotaged by one of its starswhom she called a “greedy b—h.” Watch the video below:
Cohn reveals that a revival of the classic sitcom was sabotaged by a “greedy” co-star who quietly tried to set up her own spinoff. As a result, Cohn says theFacts of Liferevival is “dead” since the former co-stars have"no desire to ever work together." Read her full comments below:
One of the girls … went behind our backs and tried to make a separate deal for a spinoff just for herself and devastated the rest of us. For a 40-year friendship and sisterhood, there was tidal wave of emotion. A couple of people can’t move past it, don’t want to move past it. We were united for 40 years over not talking about each other, not doing dirty, “all for one, one for all,” and this kind of wrecked that, which is sad. Really sad.
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Cohn did not reveal whether it was Whelchel, Fields, or McKeon who was responsible for sabotaging theFacts of Liferevival. However, she did say that one has a “33% chance” of guessing correctly between the three co-stars, andsuggested that one should check her Instagram to see whom she hasn’t posted with in recent years. Following ABC’sLive in Front of a Studio Audiencespecial in 2021, which re-enacted episodes ofDiff’rent StrokesandFacts of Lifelive, executive producer and late sitcom legend Norman Lear reached out about a possible revival.
Cohn, along with her surviving co-stars Whelchel and Fields, made cameo appearances in the ABC special.Rae passed away in 2018, and McKeon was moving at the time and unable to appear. After the special, Lear approached the former co-stars about a possible revival, which went as far as hiring a writer and having meetings. However, this is when one of the stars tried to secretly set up their own spinoff, effectively killing hopes of aFacts of Lifereboot.
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The most recent photo of theFacts of Lifecastthat Cohn shared on Instagram was when they were onThe Drew Barrymore Showin February 2022, and Fields wasn’t in the picture. However, there is a later photo from September 2022, and the only cast member missing is Whelchel. Though theevidence points to either Fields or Whelchel, unfortunately, one may never know who tried to set up their own spinoff and sabotaged theFacts of Liferevival.
The Facts of Life
Cast
The Facts of Life is a sitcom that aired from 1979 to 1988, focusing on the lives of four girls at the Eastland School for Girls and their housemother, Mrs. Garrett, played by Charlotte Rae.
