HEALTHY LIVING
During Katie’s failing kidney crisis, there was one aspect of the story that really hit home for Heather Tom (Katie). “I think Katie’s biggest fear during all of that was facing the prospect of possibly not being there for her son, Will,” the actress explains. “That’s definitely the reason she was hiding that she wasn’t feeling well. I understand that. You know, I used to ride my bike to work all the time before I had Zane [Achor, ex-will]. I did it one time after he was born — one time — and I thought to myself, ‘You are crazy! You are going to die out here and you really can’t die now because there is this little human being who is depending on you. Your life means so much more now.’ So, I never did that again. Katie didn’t want her child to be scared and experience the trauma of having a mom who’s sick, so it was really emotional for me to play those scenes with Finnegan [George, Will]. Let me tell you, all those tears were real.”