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'GMA' host thanks her lady friend

LOS ANGELES - Robin Roberts thanked her longtime girlfriend, Amber Laign, in a year-end post published on the ABC News anchor's Facebook page yesterday, confirmed Heather Riley of ABC. The message comes after Roberts' battle with a life-threatening illness.

LOS ANGELES

- Robin Roberts thanked her longtime girlfriend, Amber Laign, in a year-end post published on the ABC News anchor's Facebook page yesterday, confirmed Heather Riley of ABC. The message comes after Roberts' battle with a life-threatening illness.

This is the first time the "Good Morning America" anchor has publicly acknowledged her 10-year, same-sex relationship with Laign, a massage therapist from the San Francisco area.

The host reached a 100-day benchmark yesterday following a bone-marrow transplant she underwent to treat the blood and bone-marrow disease.

In May, Grand Central Publishing announced that Roberts will write a memoir telling the story of her battle with the life-threatening illness and the life lessons she continues to gather following her return to "GMA" in February.

- Associated Press