I like to act. It's saved my life over and over again. It's given me a sense of self-esteem, self-worth.

On how she's dealing with Heath's death

"It's so sad. I guess it's always changing. What else can I say? I just wake up each day in a slightly different place �" grief is like a moving river."

"I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse," she said of her grief. "It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone. In some ways it gets worse. That's what I would say."

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