Good Morning America's Robin Roberts was once convinced her wedding to her long-time partner Amber Laign would never happen.
The popular daytime TV host revealed last year that she and her girlfriend of 18 years were finally going to tie the knot sometime in mid to late 2023.
© Getty ImagesBut there was once a time when the 62-year old, whose partner recently came to the end of radiation treatment for breast cancer, believed she would never get to wed Amber.
Speaking with ExtraTV in mid-March, Robin explained how as a child and then later as a younger woman, the idea of getting to plan a wedding or a honeymoon as a gay woman had always seemed impossible.
"I never thought I'd be planning not just the wedding but a honeymoon. When you grow up and you know that you’re gay — especially older — you think that's never going to happen," she said.
© Getty Images"You're not going to have the wedding. You're not going to have the honeymoon," she continued, before adding while getting obviously moved: "And so now to be talking about it and for it to be embraced by folks, it's quite special."
Explaining why it took her and Amber a while to organize their wedding following the legalization of gay marriage, Robin added later in the interview: "It took us a while to get here because we've both been through so much health wise," the TV personality, who went through her own battle with cancer ten years ago, said.
During the interview Robin also gave fans an insight into some of her and Amber's wedding planning, now that the couple are finally getting to organize their special day.
"There's some things you just want to keep to yourself, but we are so excited," she told interviewer Tommy DiDario. "It is very important to get a good wedding planner… It's a daily discussion, Tommy. This, I'm not going to say [Amber]'s a bridezilla, but she has some definitive ideas about the wedding," the GMA host then joked.
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While Robin and Amber are remaining tight-lipped about exactly when their long-awaited union will be taking place, she did reveal that "the save-the-dates are going out soon."
Finally she added: "We have some things that are very special that are going to honor our folks that are not with us. And I think, at the end of the day, a very long day we're going to exhale, and I think we'll look at each other and say... 'This was worth the wait.'"
