Baxter and her partner, general contractor Nancy Locke, 54, have lived together since 2005. But for 15 years, Baxter alleges in her new book, "Untied," her husband, David Birney, was physically ...

Baxter, the actress best known for playing hippie mom Elyse Keaton on the 1980s sitcom "Family Ties," said that the abuser was her then-husband David Birney, who has denied the allegations.

Meredith Baxter AP Photo, file (CBS) - In a new memoir, actress Meredith Baxter claims her "Bridget Loves Bernie" co-star and real-life husband David Birney abused her and struck her more than once.

Birney met future wife Meredith Baxter Birney on the 1972 CBS sitcom. American actress Meredith Baxter Birney and her husband, American actor David Birney, in New York City, New York, circa 1985.

Birney, who passed away in 2022, had always denied the abuse. For her part, she turned to alcohol to cope with the abuse, but has been sober since 1990. Meredith Baxter and David Birney, 1982 ...

In the memoir, Baxter, 63, who came out as a lesbian in 2009, claims that Birney struck her on more than one occasion. “It was so sudden and unexpected, I couldn’t tell you which hand hit me ...

The second installment of the Meredith Baxter Birney double-header is ”Inside `Family Ties`: Behind the Scenes of a Hit,” a WTTW-Ch. 11 production that airs at 8 p.m. Monday.

David Birney, star of TV's "Bridget Loves Bernie" and "St. Elsewhere" and Broadway's "Amadeus," died Friday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. after a five-year battle with Alzheimer's disease.

David Birney thinks ex-wife Meredith Baxter's new memoir belongs in the fiction section. Claims that he abused her during their 15-year marriage are "an appalling abuse of the truth," Birney said ...

Meredith Baxter: Ex-Husband David Birney Hit Me. She recalls in new memoir, "I'd better not get up because he's going to hit me again" By Blaine Zuckerman. Published on March 1, 2011 07:30AM EST.

When she landed the part of Elyse Keaton on the 1980s NBC comedy Family Ties, actor Meredith Baxter Birney (she’s dropped the Birney since then) was elated.. The show had buzz and its creator ...

In 2011, Baxter wrote in her memoir "Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame and Floundering" that Birney had been abusive during their marriage, an accusation he denied in a lengthy public statement ...