Janine Turner Receiving Love for Battling Ann Coulter on Bill O'Reilly Sow
By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
Feb 25, 2009
Janine Turner, who took on venomous conservative pundit Ann Coulter on Bill O'Reilly's show last month in defense of single moms, has been getting thank-you notes from fellow solo parents. Also, "I've been asked by numerous other shows to do it again, but I'll have to see … At least I did the one," says the former "Northern Exposure" and "Strong Medicine" star, who is now being seen on NBC's "Friday Night Lights."
Janine Turner in 2007 (Image: WENN)
Turner wrote the book on admirable single moms, literally, with her 2008 "Holding Her Head High: Inspiration from 12 Single Mothers Who Championed Their Children and Changed History." "Look at what these women did, what they accomplished, and what so many women all over America are doing today. I was glad to go out there and champion them. In a way, they championed me," says Turner.
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With "Friday Night Lights" -- on which she's playing the nouveau-riche mother of a promising high school football player -- wrapped for the season, she has her agenda full of other activities. She and her dad serve as their own hands on the Texas ranch they share, she lets us know. "We muck out the stalls, take the trash a mile and a half to the corner … " But most important to Turner is focusing on her 11-year-old daughter, Juliette.
"She is my gift. She is my blessing. What we're doing now is -- she's been able to sit down at the piano and compose music since she was 3 or 4 years old, and I've been saying I have to do an album before I'm 50," says the actress, who still has nearly four years to go. "So she's doing the music, and I'm doing the lyrics, and we're going to cut this album."
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