I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.
Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.
My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.
If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.
I've always modeled myself after Ginger.
When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.
When we separated, I did not want to get in a slugfest. I had to take the high ground.
I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.
I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.
I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?
Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place.
I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work.
