MINDY Cohn has announced that the Facts of Life reboot is no longer happening, blaming an unnamed co-star for its demise. The actress held nothing back, slamming a co-star she claims to have once considered a friend in a scathing interview. Mindy, 58, appeared on SiriusXM's Jeff Lewis Live this week, opening up about The Facts of Life reboot.
During her interview, she reminded hosts Jeff Lewis , Michael Hitchcock, and Shane Douglas that the show was resurrected as one of the specials for the Norman Lear and Jimmy Kimmel series Live in Front of a Studio Audience. "They did one of Diff'rent Strokes and Facts of Life and after that, Norman Lear, who is no longer with us, when he was still alive, he called all of us and said, 'I knew you guys were still popular, but holy hell. The response from the live.
' "And basically there was this roundtable with Octavia Spencer and Amy Poehler and Jennifer Aniston where they all said, 'Yeah, our parents grew up with All in the Family, but we grew up with Facts of Life'," she said. More TV News "That's the Norman Lear sitcom that we love. And we had all never really talked about it, but we all started to consider it a little bit.
" The Palm Royale actress claimed, however, that a "greedy b***h" on the original cast led to the downfall of the show. "What happened was not cut," she said. "There was drama.
" Most read in Drama Mindy went on to say that one of her costars "went behind our backs" and tried to make a separate deal for a spinoff "just.