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“Now, your stepdaughter and her husband tragically passed away over a year ago, and you talk about that in the book Can you tell us a little about what happened?”

A little? I could tell anyone hours of information about Emma and Michael About their love story, about their desire for children and their struggle that see they wanted most, then snatched them away from it

But I was getting better about not doing that “Emma and Michael died after a car accident when Olivia was seven uardians now”

“Your husband is Neil Elwood, correct?” Amanda asked, and when I answered in the affir a brand-new online azine, you have a very successful husband, and suddenly, you’rethis child—”

“I wouldn’t say I was ht break protocol to interrupt an interviewer, but I didn’t care If there was one thing I alanted to keep clear, it was that “I’ll never be able to replace Emma”

“Of course not,” A control oncethat transition fro Island trophy ho identified as child-free’ to a more parental role And it hasn’t been all that easy, has it?”

“Well, obviously losing Emma and Michael was very hard for us as a family And Neil and I never planned to have children We still don’t But I don’t see this as taking on aa stand-in for Olivia’sout of love for Emma and Michael Olivia is a part of our family The way I was raised, you take care of your fa similar in my book, and I’d meant it with all my heart “There’s no e could refuse to care for a child we love, regardless of what our plans were”

“What’s that old saying, life is what happens when you’re busy hed in agree one of thequote

That was the last hard question The rest of the interview coasted by so easily, I was startled when A on the show and directed viewers to buy the book

Before I had time to barf on her, it was all over

I shook her hand and thanked her, and a woman in a headset put her ar me to herd me away from the set