Mindy Cohn, who flawlessly played Natalie on the 80’s show The Facts of Life, was on Jeff Lewis Live (on Sirius XM) this week and spilled some beans about why there wont be a reboot of the series.
Mindy and fellow cast mates (Kim Fields and Lisa Whelchel) had cameos on the 2021 one night special that saw huge rating numbers and seemed to be enjoyed by all. But…
According to Mindy, when talk of a reboot came up, “what happened was not cute” and because “there was drama” from one of the stars.
“It wasn’t me. I’ll put it that way,” Cohn said after the podcast co-hosts tried to have her say the name of the co-star.
The actress said that “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 who we all, you know, I had booked Palm Royale, another girl is working. I’m just saying it was for a 40-year friendship and sisterhood, there was tidal wave of emotion around it.”
Show host Michael Hitchcock said that Cohn’s co-star was a “greedy bitch,” to which Cohen said, “You know what, Michael Hitchcock. Greedy bitch. I’ll say it.”
“It’s dead. It’s very dead,” Cohn said of the Facts of Live revival. “A couple of people can’t move past it, don’t want to move past it. We are not as united. Let me put it that way. We were united for 40 years over not talking about each other, not doing dirty, not, you know, all for one, one for all, and this kind of wrecked that, which is sad. Really sad.”
Lewis insisted on having Cohn revealed the name of her co-star to which she said, “I am so not gonna tell you, but I think you could guess. No. I mean, I won’t nod or say anything, but I’m just saying, ‘Okay. It’s not me,’ and then if you go on my Instagram and see who I’m…”
She continued, “I will not deny or confirm, however, what it is is really sad, but what we were talking about before, you know, during coffee is that some people are so desperate for either money or fame that it causes them to do things that to me, I guess I’m still not that jaded. It shocks me.”
Based on the Instagram pic she was referring to you can assume the “greedy bitch” was Lisa Welchel, aka Blair Warner.