Lisa Ann Walter was “too embarrassed” to admit she had started the menopause. The 60-year-old actress – who stars as Melissa Schemmenti on the Emmy-nominated series ‘Abbott Elementary’ – opened up about coming to the end of her natural reproductive cycle and wants “shame-based” attitudes towards it to change. She told People: “Getting older as a female in this country has got to become something that is not the punchline or a topic that’s shameful. “I don’t know anybody in my mother’s generation that spoke openly about menopause. They kind of refer to it in these hushed tones — it’s like when …
