text: PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Actress Sherri Shepherd has lost her appeal of a Pennsylvania court ruling that found her responsible for a child born to a surrogate before she divorced. 
   
   The state Supreme Court says Tuesday it won't hear the case brought by the sitcom actress and former co-host of "The View." 
   
   Surrogacy advocates say the lower court ruling in her case is the first to declare surrogacy contracts binding in Pennsylvania. 
   
   Shepherd is paying $4,100 in monthly child support to ex-husband Lamar Sally of Los Angeles. His lawyer, Tiffany Palmer, says Shepherd has not seen the 1-year-old. 
   
   Shepherd spent more than $100,000 to arrange the surrogacy but tried to void the contract as the couple divorced in New Jersey. 
   
   Shepherd's lawyer says he's surprised the court won't review the issue. ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| Actress and TV personality Sherri Shepherd has been embroiled in a lengthy legal battle with her ex-husband Lamar Sally, which has shoved her and her family into the media spotlight. 
   
   Sitting down with Entertainment Tonight's Nancy O'Dell to talk about her upcoming movie Woodlawn, the former View co-host opened up about her legal troubles. and how she's been holding up. 
   
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   "Under the circumstances I'm doing really, really extremely well," Sherri told ET exclsuively. "I don't care what I go through, nothing gets me down. You know me. I will smile my way through anything. I believe smiling and laughter is the best medicine." 
   
   The couple separated in May 2014 and have since been involved in a custody battle over a now 8-month-old baby born via surrogate. Just last week, a judge ruled that Shepherd is the legal mother of the baby. Up until that point, the surrogate was listed as the legal mother on the birth certificate. 
   
   The 48-year-old star admits that, even with a positive outlook, her protracted legal fight has been emotionally challenging. 
   
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   "Life is difficult. So you just hang tough and you keep going. People who know me, my character, my integrity — I feel it speaks for itself," Sherri said. 
   
   As for how she sees this all playing out, Sherri remains hopeful. 
   
   "I feel like everything always works out in the end,” she said. "I'm a big believer that everything always works out in the end. Everybody has their challenges. So right now, it’s my challenge.” 
   
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   Check out the video for more from Sherri on how she's been dealing with the courtroom drama. 
   
   Related Gallery ||||| Sherri Shepherd, 48, may be appealing a Pennsylvania court ruling stating that she has to pay child support to her ex-husband Lamar Sally for their surrogate son, one-year-old Lamar Jr. (LJ), but as she continues her court battle, RadarOnline.com has learned that her ex is getting ready to wage a war of his own. 
   
   Sally revealed during an interview with Radar that he is currently filming a reality show about his life as a single dad and the struggles he’s had to face in the wake of his divorce for Shepherd. 
   
   “At the end of the day, I want my son to be proud of me,” he told Radar. “There are so many lies out there about me being a gold digger, me tricking Sherri into doing this and it’s just not true.” 
   
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   Because of all that has happened, Sally wants to share his story. 
   
   “So it’s time for me to stand up and say, ‘No, this is the truth. This what really happened,'” he explained. 
   
   “She has a lot more money than me,” Sally continued. “She has celebrities that have talked about me. It’s ok, because I want my son to be proud of me to say, ‘Hey, against all odds, my father stood up for me, and whatever happens, this is what he did.'” 
   
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   Sally is also admittedly doing the show “to shine a light on single dads and fathers,” he said. 
   
   He wants the world to know that single-dads struggle too. 
   
   “We’re out there and we are raising our kids on our own,” Sally said. “We’re not trying to put down the mom, but to shine some light on what we’re doing.” 
   
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   “Unfortunately we are caught: whatever the ex-wife or baby mama says about you, you take it and just be the best father that you can,” he said. “Someone has to stand up for the dad and to have a voice and say, ‘Maybe there are two sides to this story.'” 
   
   Sally and his costars plan to act as that voice. 
   
   “We aren’t the dads that run out on their family,” he said. “No, we are dads that are in there every day grinding it out, being hands-on dads, working and we love our kids. We aren’t going to have this reputation of a weekend or part-time dad. No we are there every single day.” 
   
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   Unfortunately, Sally has not discussed his reality show plans with Shepherd. 
   
   She may also not have a clue that he is even working on the pilot. 
   
   “I’m sure when she finds out that I’m doing the show, she’s going to say something towards me and it’s probably going to cost me another $10,000 to defend,” Sally said. 
   
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   As Radar first reported, Shepherd has never met her son. She hasn’t even exchanged cards with him or sent him birthday presents. 
   
   She is also in the process of trying to get her name removed from LJ’s birth certificate. 
   
   “I don’t know why she doesn’t want to be a part of his life,” Sally told Radar. “He’s a really good baby. He’s charismatic and always laughing and smiling. She’s really missing out on a lot. He’s really something special.”
target: – Sherri Shepherd must still pay child support to her ex-husband for a one-and-a-half-year-old boy her lawyer says Shepherd has never met, after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear her case. An appeals court ruled in November that Shepherd is the legal mother of the child, named LJ, despite the fact that she has no genetic connection to him, People reports. Shepherd and her ex, Lamar Sally, had the baby—conceived using Sally's sperm and a donor egg—via a surrogate who delivered in August 2014, after the couple had separated. Sally is raising the boy. Shepherd, 48, has said that she and Sally were already having marital problems when the baby was conceived, and she only agreed to the surrogacy because she was afraid Sally would leave her if she didn't. "I was scared to say, 'That's not going to work for me. I don't want that,'" she told People in August. But in November, Sally said Shepherd "lies" and added, "If she won't be there for LJ emotionally, I'll be parent enough for the both of us." He says he's filming a reality show about the surrogacy drama, Radar reports. Shepherd attempted to void the surrogacy contract as the couple was breaking up, the AP reports. She pays $4,100 per month in child support. (Click for more of Shepherd's thoughts on the battle.)