Kelly Bishop Reveals Her Very Private Abortion: Kelly Bishop said to her mother Jane when she was very young that she did not want to have children of her own.
Bishop, 80, says to the public for this week’s print issue, “I was quite young.” “When I was an adult, my mother even reminded me that you were a little child when you said, ‘I’m not going to have children.'”
“Intended it,” declares Bishop. And that was alright. That is, after all, a decision.
Kelly Bishop Abortion
The Third Gilmore Girl, the Tony-winning actress’s new memoir, will be published by Gallery Books on September 17. In it, Bishop reflects on her career on stage and screen, from her groundbreaking role as the mother of Jennifer Grey in the 1975 Broadway musical A Chorus Line—which was based on tapes she recorded about her life as a chorus dancer—to her beloved role as the strict Gilmore matriarch Emily on the 2000–2007 family drama Gilmore Girls.
Although Bishop claims to be a private person overall, she does divulge some intimate details about her past, such as her unsuccessful first marriage to a compulsive gambler and her abortion in her thirties.
Bishop remarks, “Knowing that option was there was such a relief.” Naturally, I had never considered the possibility that I might unintentionally become pregnant. I never even considered that. But it was just a relief that that was an option and that it was lawful.
Bishop states that she didn’t initially intend to write about her abortion, but she didn’t do so out of “any feeling of shame and wrongdoing.”
Bishop states, “I just wasn’t going to put in that private stuff until the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.” And an increasing number of women from my generation were going out with the statement, ‘I had an abortion,’ including actors and other celebrity-type individuals. I underwent an abortion.
Despite her self-description as “not really political,” Bishop saw this as a significant issue. She remembers going to a pro-choice demonstration in Washington, DC in 2004 with producer Helen Pai and writer Amy Sherman-Palladino of Gilmore Girls, and she feels that talking about her personal abortion experience helped her connect with younger audiences.
Bishop explains, “I simply wanted to include it so that young women of today get a sense of where we were then.”
Bishop was married to former ESPN and CNN broadcaster Lee Leonard from 1981 until his death in 2018. While Leonard did not have any biological children of his own, Bishop is the stepmother to Norma Sheryl Leonard, the daughter of Bishop’s late spouse.
Bishop describes their marriage as having “just so much love and respect between the two of us.” He made no attempt to dominate me. which is challenging because, at fifteen years old, he truly belonged to a different generation.
Bishop, who lives in New Jersey with her hound dog Dolly, is holding onto another childhood concept to this day: the desire to never stop learning.
It’s possible to gain knowledge every day. even the tiniest of details,” Bishop adds. “Because growth occurs when learning occurs. You continue to evolve, and that’s what I want.”
You can preorder The Third Gilmore Girl now, wherever books are sold, and it will be on shelves on September 17.
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