Mindy Cohn did not hold back on criticism as to why The facts of life reboot never happened. And she’s blaming a “greedy bitch” of a castmate.
The 58-year-old actress shared the sentiment during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Live show, where she told how the idea of a revival came about. As she tells it, it was the late Norman Lear who had the idea after the success of Live in front of a studio audience: the facts of life.
“We never really talked about it, but we all started considering it a little bit and we started talking and we hired a writer and the four of us got together on Zooms,” Cohn said. “This was during COVID, and we had meetings with Norman about it.”
The facts of lifewhich aired for nine seasons between 1979 and 1988, followed the housewife of a dormitory at an all-girls private school in Peekskill, New York. The series, a spinoff of Different traitsstarring Cohn, the late Charlotte Rae, Lisa Whelchel, Kim Fields and Nancy McKeon.
But the reboot never happened. And as Cohn describes it, “it wasn’t cute” because “there was drama.” Cohn wouldn’t reveal the co-star’s name, but assured everyone that it wasn’t her, but “one of the girls.”
“(She) went behind our backs and tried to make a separate deal for a spinoff just for her and devastated the rest of us that we all, you know, I had reserved Palm Tree Royaleanother girl is working,” Cohn continued. “I’m just saying it was for a 40-year friendship and sisterhood, there was a wave of emotion around it.”
Cohn added: “Greedy bitch. I’ll tell you.”
The ordeal, Cohn says, has left her with “no desire to work together.” As for any chance of a revival, Cohn is adamant that “it’s very much dead.” In essence, she says, they’ve all reached a point of no return.
“Some people can’t get over it, don’t want to get over it. We’re not that united. Let me put it this way,” she said. “We were united for 40 years by not talking about each other, not doing dirty things, not, you know, all for one, one for all, and this kind of destroyed that, which is sad. Very sad.”
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