WEST NEW YORK AND BEYOND — Brenda Hamilton, 30, a Broadway actress who currently lives in West New York, is making national news after filing a lawsuit against the manufacturer of a birth control pill.
AOL News said Wednesday: “An actress who is currently an understudy in the Broadway show ‘Wicked’ is suing Bayer, claiming its birth control pill Yasmin caused her to have a stroke when she was 27 years old … Brenda Hamilton, a former Bronx resident who now lives in West New York, N.J., filed a civil suit in the Bronx claiming that Bayer knew the birth-control pill Yasmin posed a greater risk of stroke and blood clots than other birth control pills, but didn’t warn consumers … ‘I’m pretty angry that this happened to me. I was 27 at the time. I don’t think this should be happening to young women. It shouldn’t happen to any woman just because they take birth-control pills,’ she told the Post.”